A withdrawal under fire. That’s what our war fighters face in the coming days. A situation they’ve been forced into by a disgraceful…
I don’t even want to give the empty shell sitting in the Oval Office the honorable and esteemed title of “Commander-in-Chief”. He commands nothing, no-one. He does only what they ‘tell him to do’.
And the politically minded, politically correct, politically obsessed upper echelon are, at best, inept. Perhaps ignorant. Possibly bought off or compromised by China. Some would say treasonous.
But the men on the ground in Afghanistan are America’s best. Volunteers. Selfless. And they are in a hell of a dangerous situation, especially as the final withdrawal winds down. Surrounded by tens of thousands of suicidal maniacs, religious zealots, jihadists, equipped with the world’s best armaments. At some point, you stand down, turn your back to the enemy, load up, fly out. If they let you.
In the earliest days of America, before there was an America, fighting men on the continent of North America gave their best. Many gave their all. Independence had been declared, but not yet won. Washington’s army was hard pressed. The greatest power in the world at that time was intent on annihilating the ‘rebellious rabble’. The victory, the slaughter that the British sought, was theirs for the taking.
A handful of brave and honorable patriots sacrificed their lives to prevent that massacre from happening. Had it not been for their bravery and loyalty, America might never have been.
Two hundred and forty-five years ago today (August 27) in the Battle of Brooklyn, where a few hundred Maryland soldiers bravely charged thousands of British soldiers and Hessian mercenaries to allow their brothers-in-arms to escape total annihilation. This elite unit of Marylanders, known as “Washington’s Immortals” or the “Bayonets of the Revolution” for their Thermopylae-like charge against a British stronghold, bought with their blood “an hour, more precious to American liberty than any other in its history.”
Read the interesting and inspiring account here:
The fallen Americans were buried in an unmarked mass grave. The article contains the following:
Remaining as one of the great mysteries of the Revolution, the location of the fallen “Gentlemen of Honour, Family and Fortune” of Washington Immortals tragically remains unmarked and unknown somewhere beneath the surface, perhaps under a garage or below a paved street, intermingled with what should be hallowed ground.
As he watched, from a distance, the battle that allowed his Army to escape, George Washington was said to have uttered the words on the monument shown.
Pray for our brave Americans as they leave Afghanistan.
