WE WILL NOT FORGET
Lorraine American Cemetery & Memorial, Saint Avold, France
Inscription on the Lorraine Memorial
HERE WE AND ALL WHO SHALL HEREAFTER
LIVE IN FREEDOM
WILL BE REMINDED THAT TO THESE MEN AND THEIR COMRADES
WE OWE A DEBT TO BE PAID.
WITH GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR SACRIFICE
AND WITH HIGH RESOLVE THAT
THE CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY DIED SHALL LIVE
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The military oath to “support and defend the Constitution” is a blank check, made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." Those checks were cashed for over 400,000 Americans in World War II who died defeating two despicably evil regimes bent on world-wide murder, rape and pillage. The proceeds from 10,760 were deposited at Lorraine.
It didn’t begin or end with World War II. From the Revolutionary War to Iraq, Americans have put their lives on the line so others could live in freedom.
In his announcement of the Normandy invasion, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described it as a huge step "to set free a suffering humanity."
As inscribed in the Korean War Memorial
OUR NATION HONORS HER SONS AND DAUGHTEERS
WHO ANSWERED THE CALL
TO DEFEND A COUNTRY THEY NEVER KNEW
AND A PEOPLE THEY NEVER MET
Much more eloquently than we can, Cpl. Jeffrey Starr, of Snohomish, Wash. speaks for all of them. On April 30, 2005, on the last day of his final tour of duty, he was killed in a fire fight in Ramadi, Iraq.
After his death, Starr's family found a letter on his laptop computer written to his girlfriend, Emmylyn Anonical.
In the letter, Starr said: "I kind of predicted this; this is why I'm writing this . . . A third time just seemed like I'm pushing my chances. . . . I don't regret going, everybody dies, but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it's not to me. I'm here helping these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives. To me that is why I died. Others have died for my freedom. Now this is my mark."
BETRAYAL
We have sent our warriors into distant, hostile lands to die in defense of freedom for others. But we have not served them well. In the post World War II years, too many complacent Americans stood silently aside as our own government, inch by inch, step by step, grew too big, too expensive, too intrusive, too nosy, too dictatorial, too distant, too abusive and.. . .well, just about everything it was not supposed to be. Never has our freedom been more fragile than it is at this moment. It amounts to betrayal of the sacrifice they made.
Help Is On The Way
You will be heartened to know we have found a way to turn it around, to restore it to the wondrous vision our Founding Fathers assumed it would be with the freedom and liberty our Fallen Warriors and Veterans fought and died for rather than what it is.
When we first realized that our government had grown too intrusive, too abusive, etc. and heard voices of armed rebellion echoing in the distance, we researched the problem for months, searching for whatever it was that allowed it to happen.
We found it.
It’s not political. It’s not partisan. All it is was a technical adjustment made in 1913 to the way Senators are elected – the 17th Amendment which took their appointment away from the State Legislatures in favor of popular election.
We have published the results of our research here as a service to those who want to do something about it and everyone who might simply have an interest in seeing how it came to be and how the resulting unintended consequences have nearly destroyed our nation..
We are among those who want to do something about it. All it takes is another technical adjustment – Repeal the 17th Amendment which will put appointment of Senators back where it belongs, with the State Legislatures rather than popular election.
"What!" you object, "you want to take away my right to vote for Senators." If putting it back where the Founding Fathers put it is the only route open to restore freedom and individual liberty, Yes, we do. We're taking away ours too, so you haven't been singled out.
But be realistic. Your vote is only symbolic. It is meaningless. The only time a person has power in the ballot box is when he can exercise some control over the actions of his "servants." The only way to have control is to be able to talk to them directly, not just to their staff. Can you call your Senator and get him on the Phone? The Party Bosses can. Milton Megabucks can. The media can. The lobbyists can. The Special Interest groups can. But you can't.. Face it. Until the 17th Amendment is repealed we're just a mass of nameless faces in the crowd they have to shmooze every six years, just enough to persuade us to keep them in office.
And we have figured out how to do it in a purely non-partisan, non-political manner so that all future Americans will enjoy the Freedom and Liberties envisioned by our Founding Fathers.
Today, Congress cannot muster enough funds or interest to deliver promised benefits or provide adequate care to our wounded, maimed and crippled men and woman who went in harm’s way. But they can find billions to enhance their reelection prospects or reward their supporters. It’s shameful. When we have completed our task, delivery of promised benefits to and care for Veterans will be a top priority.
City, County and State governments, currently suffering under the heel of an arrogant, dictatorial federal bureaucracy, will be able to go about the business of providing essential services to their citizens without having federal bureaucrats looking over their shoulder, micromanaging, dictating how it must be done. Instead of adversaries, City, County, State and Federal will be partners working out problems in the most efficient, cost-effective common sense manner.
Public schools will be returned to local control.
Cost of government, all the way from the cities up to the federal will go down.
There will not be any campaign contributors.
We have no political agenda or axe to grind. As with our Fallen Warriors and those who went and returned, we stand in service to all Americans. The Oath we took on entering the service was neither political nor selective and is forever. The ultimate beneficiaries of what we propose herein will be all the people, regardless of political persuasion, occupation, rich or poor, race, creed, sexual orientation, whatever, it will be every American.
To reestablish the traditional brotherhood of Warriors going forth in the name of freedom and individual liberty, we invite you to become a member.. If you do not qualify as a War Veteran and cannot join, you can still be a vitally important part of it. As with other battles, the men serving could not get the job done without the hundreds behind them providing essential support. (See Join for qualifications.)
If you already recognize the need to repeal the 17th Amendment, go directly from here to The Plan. Then, come back and browse a bit.
If you would like to see it happen, but believe the conventional wisdom that it can’t be done because the Senators will never vote themselves out of their cushy positions, go directly to The Plan where, as you will see, the odds are in our favor. As some advocates of repeal have predicted, it has an 80% to 90% probability of success. Which are pretty good odds in today’s climate in DC.
If you need details on why this is needed and how it can be done, proceed forward to When & How