Question for Europe – From 417,000 American Ghosts
By Michael Bresciani (09/18/06)
Anti American sentiment is on the rise in Europe according to the latest
polls. It has even spread to America’s staunchest ally Great Britain. So
Much so that British Prime Minister Tony Blair commented recently saying
it was “madness” to persist in it because America shares the same interest
of both Britain and all of Europe.
It is hard to say if the anti-American attitude is driven by jealousy,
fear, insecurity or the latest neoanarchist cravings of post Christian
Europe. Maybe Europeans see Americans as a bunch of hamburger chomping,
truck loving, Hollywood inspired bunch of country nitwits. Although long
since known and now mostly lost they should be reminded that they are
thinking this way about their very own not too ancient progenitors. Hey,
maybe if they had states as big as whole European countries, over two
hundred years of freedom and a constitution that kept them from dictators,
monopolizing monarchs and life endangering tyrannies they might want to
chomp a few hamburgers in their Chevy trucks while riding somewhere just
to take in a good movie. But that is not the real issue, so what is?
I’ll go out on a limb here and say that even without a professional
polling service to back me up there are millions of Americans who feel a
bit betrayed and even hurt by Europe’s short memory. Because a lot of our
youth hardly know how many Americans fought and died in European theatres
of war I may be on thin ice if I expect Europeans to remember such things.
But here’s the rub. We haven’t forgotten the British, French, Dutch and
many others in Europe, we still go along in our Chevy’s thinking were a
bit safer for having them on our side. We are not all so distracted by
Hollywood and hamburgers that we fail to notice that old friends are
getting wishy washy.
But there is a large group of Americans whose voices we still hear even if
Europeans do not. We will never stop listening to their voices. Although
now silenced in death they create a resounding, unfading echo that every
American who loves this country will never cease to hear. It is the sound
of 417,000 American men and women who fought to free countries in the
Pacific from Japanese expansion. They threw themselves at Hitler in
concert to stop his plans to put Europe under his boot. They died all over
the world but most died in Europe.
Americans were killed, wounded, imprisoned and went missing as well as
dying in service related accidents and diseases to the tune of 407,000.
Add to that about 10,000 merchant mariners who were drowned and killed at
sea in world war two. It is their Ghosts who we also hear between
hamburgers and movies just loud enough to remind us that Europe was not
easy to free. Ah, but who reminds the Europeans?
I have come to care very little about the objections, the doubt or the
rants against Christ, or the bible. I have never been ashamed of telling
what God has done and said and I’m far too old and the world is too far
gone to start worrying about it now. Europe’s forgetting of its friends to
me is only part and parcel to the general state of mind that is prophesied
to exist just prior to the final days and the battle of Armageddon.
The Apostle Paul says it this way…This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false
accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors,
heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 2Timothy
3: 1-4 KJV
Jesus said in the last days the love of many would grow cold. Paul took
the matter a bit further and included disloyalty and treachery as
conditions that will prevail in millions of people near the second coming
of Christ. Loyalty is a virtue that millions of Americans still hold
dearly and I for one don’t care if they fill their Chevy trucks to the
brim with hamburgers and laugh all night at the movies because I know they
will be there for anyone they can help when the chips are down.
Rev Bresciani is the author of two Christian books and hundreds of
articles now read worldwide. Please enjoy a visit to
http://www.americanprophet.org
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