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Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11:16 AM
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In 1787, at the close of the constitutional convention, It is said that Benjamin Franklin was asked, "well doctor, what have you given us, a republic or a monarchy?" He replied, "A republic if you can keep it." On this Memorial Day 2012, if we are to memorialize the lives given to protect our Republic, how should we then react to our Republic defiled and lost to those who now rule over us? How should we react to the realization that the ruling elite of both parties have betrayed what the Republic stands or should I say stood for? If we allow wicked rulers to prevail over us as wolves watching over sheep, then we cheapen and make void the hundreds of years of prior sacrifices.The present ruling elite hold us in such contempt as to defile every institution dear to us as a free people. What debt do we owe those we memorialize? What debt will we owe our children to whom we bequest a socialist state rather than the Republic the Founders tried to leave us?The blood of every soul lost in conflict in all the wars fought to preserve the freedom of this nation is spilled in vain if we allow this to continue.On this Memorial Day I pray this nation's God will forgive us for squandering the freedom our founders were compelled to leave us.On this Memorial Day I ask forgiveness for our loss of freedom in the name of the war on terror, the war on drugs, the cyber security war and all the other pretexts used to incrementally enslave us. On this Memorial Day, I wonder if those who died to preserve our Republic would repent of their decision to serve and sacrifice if they witnessed a nation unrecognizable from that the Founders gave us.If our Founders were here today, would they conclude that freedom for this nation is lost? Would they abandon this effort and seek another New World where they would hope to re-establish the Republic they envisioned?On this Memorial Day 2012, if by our complacency, the Republic has slipped away from us, then those we memorialize did not die to protect the Republic, they died in vain as so much cannon fodder.