‘Today’s Enemy Far More Insidious’

To The Editor:
During World War II, America called on its sons and daughters to go and help stop an evil that was rampaging through Europe and in the Pacific. They donned uniforms and marched off to face and defeat this evil while keeping the home front safe as well. Civilians did their part and America, with its allies and despite its racial and other social problems, got the job done. Those men and women who answered the call have been dubbed “the greatest generation.” And despite the social problems in the country at that time, it is a title well earned.
Many of those who served during that time have passed on, but there are still those who are yet alive. Senior citizens, both veterans and civilians, make up a large portion of our society and a large percentage of them vote in every election, especially in national elections.
Today, America is in trouble again. It is facing an enemy that is far more devious and insidious than the German or Japanese soldiers of WWII. The enemy this time is domestic, and weapons used are out of control spending of taxpayer money, huge tax increases on the middle class, socialized medicine, government take over of private businesses, redistribution of wealth, appeasement of foreign enemies, disrespect for our men and women in uniform, class warfare and overt animosity towards Christians.
America is again calling on its sons and daughters, veterans, senior citizens and the patriotic young to come to her defense. But this time, the war will have to be won at the ballot box. Our “bullets” must be our votes. America’s seniors must gird themselves with the truth, dedication, patriotism, honor, unwavering love of country and yes, a bit of anger. In 2008 we witnessed the second “Pearl Harbor” on our constitutional freedom by an administration that governs against the will of the majority of Americans and is arrogantly defiant in its pursuit of socialism.
In the 1940s the sons and daughters of America stepped up. It is now 2010; can we do less than what our fathers and grandfathers, mothers and grandmothers did then? I hope not.
JIMMIE L. HOLLIS
Millville