Peacemakers
The soldiers are worthy of deep appreciation, for they have marched off when something was afoot (usually wearing an Army boot).
It takes a lot of bravery to be shot at.
But there is a considerable amount of courage in finding a way to stop the shooting.
We wouldn’t have anyone marching on Memorial Day if everyone was in a grave.
Somewhere along the line, those who grew weary of war and knew it was hell found ways to negotiate peace or even to expose the meaningless nature of conflict.
Peacemakers are blessed because they have to go where there are wars in order to create peace.
Peace is never forged in a boardroom.
Instead, it is visualized when men and women grow tired of death and destruction and finally allow themselves to believe that the true honor lies in maneuvering to find peace.
War is not for heroes and peace for wimps.
Peace is created by the heroes of a war which needs to stop.
A quick overview of the history of wars in our American nation is not terribly uplifting. Wars have been fought for almost every reason plausible—and too often for profit and gain.
But to the soldiers—those who serve—there needfully is a special place of value and tenderness in our hearts.
But also, we stop today and erect a memorial to those who make peace.
Those wars that didn’t have to happen—like the thermonuclear one that could have been started from Cuba in 1962.
We are thankful to the peacemakers.
It is completely plausible to respect the military without always wanting to use it.
The best way to keep a strong army and defend a country is to make sure that our young men and women don’t have to lose their lives to prove that America is strong.
We give that job of consecration, diplomacy and negotiation to our peacemakers.
G-Poppers … March 2nd, 2018
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They were bombed. Yes, completely bombed out of their minds.
G-Pop is talking about Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong, the first secretary of the Communist Party in Russia and the Chairman of the Communist Party in China, respectively.
They were bombed in the sense that they were intoxicated on the power they felt by possessing an arsenal of nuclear weapons. So inebriated were they on their own power that they frequently threatened the world with destruction.
Fortunately, the world was granted a country called the United States, which possessed a President who refused to take the bait and openly, or at least quietly, lobbied against nuclear proliferation.
Beginning with Eisenhower, then Kennedy, Johnson and even Richard Nixon–all were convinced it was essential that the world be disarmed from the threat of atomic annihilation. It continued with Jimmy Carter and even Ronald Reagan, who tried to negotiate treaties while simultaneously being an usher at the falling of the House of Lenin.
Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim Jung Un of North Korea are also bombed. They have picked up on the infection of egotistical, maniacal manipulation through the news cycle by threatening humanity with demise.
Here is where G-Pop is concerned: we seem to have lost the American president who stands in the way of these bombed individuals. Unfortunately, some chest-thumping and threats are now coming from the red, white and blue.
We have three leaders in the world who are bombed. At no time in our history has such a precarious imbalance loomed over the precious lives of our children.
It does not do any good to claim to be a Christian nation if we continue to politically and diplomatically live under the pretext of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”
Sanity must prevail, and we can’t wait for a redemption story to come from the Kremlin or North Korea. It is up to our President to follow the examples of his predecessors and control the danger which might accidentally be unleashed just to prove a point.
G-Pop wants his children to know that much of this Earth is negotiated by balancing. It’s not an issue of compromise, but rather, a deterrent to insanity through seeking the counsel of better “angles.”
We are in trouble.
It’s not because Putin is in Russia or Kim Jung Un is in North Korea. It’s because we’ve lost our perspective as a nation on how foolish it is to intimidate–and how such maneuvers can create alarming predicaments which might force us to back up our claims.
Where is the voice of reason?
Where is the realization that military might is best used in exercises instead of filling body bags?
G-Pop is praying for restraint.
G-Pop, who had a grandson born just today, is attempting to encourage “turn the other cheek,” which allows us to keep our good face alive and well.
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