Is the Past repeating itself?

I took the time, not for old time sake, but to provoke some thought; to see the old classic mini series: Winds of War. Really, I did not need to see this in order for me to know or see the Past coming quickly up behind me, ready to grab me yet it was the movie that made me want to scream out, "Does anyone see what is coming? Do we need to repeat this?"

It was the year 1939 and much of the world allowed this new leader of Germany to run rampant over the European nations. So long as the alligator is not eating you, just turn your head or shake your head, say to yourself: too bad, poor folks, glad it is not me. But that was the wrong method of thinking. It did not take a scientist, a genius to see this man was crazy. Yet, hundreds, thousands believed his rants and followed this guy. He made decrees that made your skin crawl but people who should have known better, should have stood up against him, just followed and carried out the decrees. How is it that any human could think of another human, perhaps their neighbor as unworthy to live because they believed differently than you. Remember, it was just not Jews that this man sentenced to death but devout Christians, handicapped, even those that did not appear to be of 'good' stock.

You can see from history this man had a way with words, his words though false nonetheless were presented with such charisma to the masses that the masses believed them, The masses were in awe over him, they heard words that put blame upon certain people for their misfortunes from WWI, they heard words that somehow made them feel better after thinking revenge on these certain people would make their lives better. The masses acted like zombies, carrying out the decrees no matter how horrid, turning in their neighbors of years, taking property of the Jews, ratting out others that had sense to try to stop it. How could sensible people all of a sudden become so senseless? It was those words.

It was not just those words that did it. There was also a sense among many that Hitler would go away, that he would stop at - say Poland, and go no further. People thought they had gone through hard times before and things changed so they needed only to wait things out and better times would come. People also thought if they stuck their heads in the sand that when they extracted their buried heads things would be fine again. These people allowed the autocracies  to  take place, they also where among those that were sent to concentration camps to end their lives there. I wonder how many of these looked back and wished they had done differently, had left when they could, would have organized and fought back; rather than give their lives to a cause of a crazy man. I dare say, all of them.

So how is that we hear these words repeated and we just sit there listening but not doing anything about it. How is it that decrees that the people did not vote for are being allowed to take hold? How is it that we are allowing our supreme law, the Constitution to be thrown off to the side with hardly a whimper? Do we not see the writing on the wall, do we not hear words that sound good but are false words only to draw you in? Are we not strong enough to close our ears to these words and stand up to fight for what is ours? Do we not see that each move this man makes draws us closer and closer to a  government run state with no power to the people? With directives that are not voted on being made each day our freedoms, our rights, our liberties are ignored, taken away from us. Where is the fortitude, the fighting genes, the desire for freedom that our forefathers had? Has all that been bred out of us?

I still have the genes within me, I still feel freedom in my veins, I still have God within my soul  and I will rally with others that do also. I will not lie down and allow my country to be taken away, it is too good to give away. I will not stay and be given up by neighbors that are senseless but will leave to live and fight for what is mine.  My forefathers, my ancestors gave their lives for this freedom land we call America and no man or his followers will take it away.

Wake up - hear the right words, turn deaf years on the false ones, stand up before you are forced to sit down, fight for freedom before there is no fight left, live for freedom before they make you die for not being of the right stock for their new regime.

We must never forget

The news is hitting us all around, from every angle, this is wrong, this is bad, this change is not good, this law will not work, this tax will hurt us, oh the economy is draining us, oh our security is being jeopardized, what will we do? We are worried, we are forced to be worried because the news wants us to be worried, to be concerned, for us to be all in knots.
So, what do we do? Do we rant and rave like we are? Do we whine and complain like we do? I hear in place I go someone whining, complaining, ranting and raving about what is going on, what changes are happening that they do not like, what new taxes are going to be imposed on the people that will only hurt the people, hurt the economy, how our national security is being whittled away. Oh the whining, oh the complaining it goes on and on. I feel for these people I really do. I know their pain, I really do.
People are losing their jobs, they are losing their homes, businesses and they don't know what to do. They are right, they have the right to complain, rant and rave about what is going on. But is that enough? Is that what will make it right, really right again?
Sixty years ago there was a young man that stepped in and said I will make it right, I will fix the wrongs, I will make jobs where there are no jobs, I will give those with no money funds to buy things again, I will give those with no food a full plate to eat again, I will give education to the children, there will be new businesses, there will be prosperity in this land. He asked the people if that is what they wanted and if they did all they needed to do is to stand by him, help him in cleaning out the wrong in the land, wiping out all that is bad in the land to make all things good and right. The people listened and went along with it.
They saw the wrongs in what the man did, they had to, but they blindly just went along with it because they loved the idea of what the man said they were going to get. The old saying - be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. You just might be surprised how you get it.
By the time things go out of hand the people whined, complained, ranted and raved. They did it in private, by this time, to do this in public would mean prison or be shot. It grew and grew, the man got more power, until the whole world knew his power, knew his craziness but for thousands, millions it was too late.
What happened? Did the whining and complaining do anything? Did the ranting and raving do anything? The only thing it might have done was to send many to prison, others to a certain death. But, did it change anything for good. Most likely not. The act of just complaining, whining, ranting and raving about what is not good, what is bad will change nothing. So, what did work? What will work?
The only thing that will work, what did work was the act of change. If you can not help in the change then just to whine or complain or rant or rave about what is happening will do nothing. If your complaining reaches someone that acts then your complaining was an act to create another to put something else into motion so your complaining must be directed at a group that will listen and act upon it otherwise your complaining futile. If you want to make a difference you must think of what change you wish to create and go about creating that change. This is the only way to make the wrongs right and the bads good again. In World War II it took a world of soldiers to fight back a man's [Hitler] army and the man himself. It took the strength of armies to make the change. Too much power had been allowed to be created, too much death had been allowed, armies with hearts their sleeves, with God on their shoulders moved in and made the world right again.
Here we are 60 years ago. President Eisenhower, then General Eisenhower said to his men, 'take pictures, lots of pictures, because someday, some son of a bitch will say this never happened.' Today, 60 years ago, the United Kingdom teaches its students the Holocaust was just a myth. A myth is something that never really happened. Those photos, the survivors all know it happened, the people of Germany made to help bury the dead, the victims remember. We know that no matter how much we say it did not happen, it happened. Do not forget, do not allow such a time to be diluted in your mind. Such horrors brought a world of armies to come with their God to create a miracle of survival. We must not forget the survival, the overcoming of this man, the peace that sprung from it all. The change of turning the wrongs to right.
How is it that because the Muslims say it offends them that we change history? How is it that we allow one man, one group of people to say what we will think and what we will do? Do we have eyes to see and ears to hear? Do we have memories to remember? Why are we not using senses? Have we lost them? History they say will repeat itself if we do not learn from it. How big of a lesson must we be taught to learn not to repeat such history? Do we not think that Hitler and his horrors was big enough to remember? Many today think not, many say it never happened, therefore how can you remember something that did not happen? But, this is a Hitler tactic, it is a tactic, just like one used 60 years ago, don't forget it. Remember, remember, don't repeat history. See the wrong changes, hear the wrongs and know the changes that need to be done to take back, turn back our country where the wrongs will be right. Put our constitution back on the pedestal where it needs to be. Raise the flag, fly it and salute it proudly, once again. We need to make the changes, we need not to complain but to make the changes together. Each one of us, one by one, together each of us need to spring up from our grassy lawns and gather in heart and mind, on foot, together in strength to make the changes. Bring back the right, make it good again. Remember to remember, never forget, they made history so we not suffer today.

From yesterdays freedom's blood springs peace for today, if we only remember.