05/26/2025
FOR GOD AND COUNTRY
REMEMBER THE FALLEN
Five Star General Douglas MacArthur, who was the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, told West Point Cadets, May 1962: "The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those divine attributes which his maker gave when He created man in His own image. No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of Divine help which alone can sustain him. However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind."
President Eisenhower, February 20, 1955, stated for the American Legion Back-to-God program: "The Founding Fathers, recognizing God as the author of individual rights, declared that the purpose of Government is to sure these rights. But in many lands the state claims to be the author of human rights. If the state gives rights it can and inevitably will, take away those rights.
Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic expression of Americanism.
The Founding Fathers saw it, and with God's help, it will continue to be the most basic expression of Americanism. Veterans realize, perhaps more clearly than others, the prior place that Almighty God holds in our national life.
"You are the light of (Christ to) the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden," (Matthew 5:14) Amplified Bible. Our Fallen Veterans gave their all to keep the light on.
Remember the Fallen
Pastor Darrel
