As we arrive less than three weeks from the presidential election, we are faced with a critical decision that will permanently determine our national direction. We will either commit ourselves to vote to take our nation back toward our foundations and constitutional representative government; or, instead, t
oward the slavery of judicial and executive tyranny. We ought to carefully consider what is really on the table in this election and what we truly stand to lose if we allow a Marxist criminal bent on overthrowing our Constitution to be elected; or, if we will elect a president who understands that federal judges must sit under, and be, themselves, subject to our Constitution, or if they will place themselves above the Constitution, as all powerful tyrants, to bend its interpretation to fit the Marxist agenda of the Left.
The following article was written by me to remind Americans what the true treasure of Memorial Day is to our nation. It was unpublished when I originally wrote it partly because, at the time, I had been exiled from Facebook over an article I wrote in December concerning national security concerns. Apparently, as inmates say about serving their sentence in prison, “I did my number” and was allowed access to my page again in July.
I read again my original handwritten article yesterday. Though Memorial Day is past, I believe that the things I wrote considering what was truly important then is magnified by the urgency of the moment as we stand so near to the presidential election that very well may be the death blow to our country if Hillary Clinton is elected. With that in mind, I present to you the following thoughts to consider as you determine your decision to vote in less than three weeks for our next president and whether you will do what you can to stop the Left’s drive to overthrow our Constitution via an activist Supreme Court that will seek to reshape that document into a Frankenstein monster that can not be stopped from destroying the United States of America.
As with all of my writings, you may freely share this article with your friends. In fact, I encourage you to do so today to reach as many voters as possible. Hopefully it will help.
Thank you.
Captain (Retired) Terry Michael Hestilow, United States Army
The True Treasure of Memorial Day [or Election Day]: A Soldier’s Perspective
Most Americans that have a true historic understanding of the origin of Memorial Day recognize that it is a day of commemoration of those Americans who gave their lives at sea and on battlefields for the hope of Liberty for those who survived the wars.
Some, less attentive, or poorly educated, think it simply another day to recognize military members generally. To them, Memorial Day, Veteran’s Day, and Armed Forces Day are all identical in nature and superfluous.
Then there are those who lose the human element entirely. To them, Memorial Day, while recognizing the human toll paid for our freedoms, are more inclined to lament the cost of war in terms of dollars and cents … so called “wealth”.
While in truth, Memorial Day is a day to remember specifically our war dead, in a real sense it should be a day of reflection on what we have actually suffered, as a nation, paying the legitimate price that our nation’s freedom—and freedom’s maintenance—has required. Truly, it is a cost that can never be quantified by the accountant nor historian’s cumulative record of our war dead; but, must give freedom to the understanding of the multiplied impact of every lost life to what America might have been if they had lived.
The real cost of war—our true Treasure—is not measured in coin spent, but in blood poured out … and in the generations of Americans that have been forever lost to us—literally generations of Americans lost with each dying sailor or soldier at sea or on the field of battle.
Think of these multiplied losses. Each service member killed in battle—on land, sea, or air—were not just nameless numbers in “killed in action” column on a report. They were not just statistics that appear to bear little significance to the whole of our population. Neither are they simply the sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, uncles, cousins, and friends lost to war. For each life represents the potential in generations never to be realized in the cultural personality, vitality, and productivity of our country.
To begin to grasp the true “National Treasure” we have paid, we must begin to see the population of America buried beneath each headstone of each American “killed in action” for Liberty’s preservation!
How many would have gone on in life to become husbands and wives? And how many sons and daughters would they have produced that would have, in turn, given us grandchildren to build strength into our population?
And yet the physicians and researchers tell us more. Think of the consolidated value of the gene pool we have lost in the healthiest Americans forever removed from among us to vanquish the tyrant’s thirst for power. In this loss, consider not only the magnification of generational diseases that we witness among us today, but consider also the loss of genius we have suffered in brilliant minds that might have found cures to diseases that continue to evolve and march against our population’s health today.
And so it is in every area of life! The best of America today is only the shadow of what we might have been if those Americans fallen in battle might have produced children had they not been laid low by the necessity of war.
And, yes, there is also the financial and industrial loss we have suffered as well. For each community—family–of potential Americans lost in a single service member killed in action would have added immeasurably to our nation’s productivity, wealth, knowledge and strength.
But what meaning is to be taken from the recognition of what our personal and national costs have been this Memorial Day [or Election Day]? Is it a call against the need for war and warriors to take up arms against our enemies? Forever not! For the right to live under our own Constitution is indeed worth the true cost to defeat the tyrants, at home and abroad, that would deny our people—our families—our children—their Liberties and force us all to live on our knees under the tyrant’s whip!
True enough it is that Americans must not rush into war, but when we have reasoned that military force is necessary we must not permit our resolve to weaken and subsequently abandon our mission and discount the cost already paid in blood upon the battlefield! We owe it to the dead and wounded to finish the mission successfully, promptly, and decisively!
Remember this, America, we must always count these who would quit our commitment to win our wars unworthy to stand in the warm memory of those who gave their lives—and their futures—and their potential families—for our freedom! Those who would quit our commitment to win our wars are but maggots preferring the flesh of slaughtered freedom! Rather than stop the tyrant, they would choose to live empty lives without value, living under the boot of tyranny, and not deserving of the freedoms already gained by brave warriors—living and dead—to keep America free!
And so, this Memorial Day [or Election Day], let us consider not just the lost fallen in combat, and the magnificent families who would live among us as brothers and sisters, and patriot countrymen, had the cost of Liberty not been demanded of their parents. Let us consider what they believed was worthy of such a sacrifice—The United States Constitution, and our American way of life! Indeed, they died defending the Constitution against all enemies—both foreign and domestic!
They did not give up their very lives—and the lives of the children they would have loved—for an America that would allow the Constitution to be pulled down and trodden underfoot by five judges in black robes who would illegally change the Constitution from the Bench by judicial fiat [Article V US Constitution provides the only legal means of changing the US Constitution, and decisions that change our understanding of the historic meaning of the Constitution by five judges on the Supreme Court is not included as one of those legal means of altering the Constitution]! They did not die that America could emulate the Nazi tyranny against the Jews and sponsor the slaughter of children in and out of the mother’s womb! They did not die that the federal government could wage a domestic war against our religion—or usher in a preferred Muslim religion of hatred and terror! They did not die so that the institution of family could be replaced by a communist social reformation! They did not die that “marriage” could be redefined by liberal enemies of the Constitution into something undefined and meaningless! And they did not die to give deranged men and women the right to force the rest of America to accept that they should be allowed to shower with our children!
This Memorial Day [or Election Day] we have a responsibility to remember and honor their sacrifice and, if need be, give our own lives, our own wealth, and our own names in defense of our Constitution and way of life! We owe it to them and to our children to stand firm and elect only to office those fore-sworn to defend and preserve the Constitution the way it was written and not the way five unelected liberal judges think it should be redefined in meaning and effect!
If we are to be worthy to remember—and honor—the multiplied sacrifice of those who died fighting for America this Memorial Day [or Election Day], or—for that matter any day of the year—we must commit to be willing to die ourselves—and vote—only for one who will return the U.S. Supreme Court to a proper understanding that they do not stand above the Constitution, but in every way sit below it and are obligated to hear it speak rather than to try to speak in its place!
Let us, then be faithful stewards of their sacrifice, and the Constitution they died to give into our hands to likewise protect in our day.
Copyright © Terry M. Hestilow, 2016
Captain (Retired) Terry Michael Hestilow, United States Army
Fort Worth, Texas, October 20, 2016
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