Guardrails

This 87 year old, totally blind, 100% disabled, medical officer veteran believed he has seen it all (8 round-the-world trips, traveled in every continent, passport stamped in 157 countries, excursions to both the North and South Poles). But, recent developments about young millionaire athletes paid exorbitant salaries to run up and down sports fields in sports arenas has caused me to have great doubts about the future of my country. God gave to man a conscious, God has given man certain guardrails, certain absolutes, the knowledge from right and wrong. He set the parameters, guardrails-guidelines in the perfection of the Garden of Eden. He told the first couple that they could walk with him, enjoy the perfection that he had created in the world. He gave just one limitation, “Don’t touch that tree.” They had everything else for their enjoyment. But as with everything else involving genus homo (human beings), there must be certain restrictions… The violation of the laws of nature (fire will burn sowing and reaping). My first excursion into the world of “make-believe”, when ordered to the staff of the US Army hospital, Fort McClellan, Alabama. When an officer receives his orders, he does not question anything, only follows orders. One of the medical officers I met upon my arrival at this Army facility, said to me, “I’m so glad to be leaving this ridiculous place. I don’t know what is going on here, but it is evil.”

I had studied mathematics at Chapel Hill under the professorship of a German mathematician, who was very upfront. He had taught our enemies the projection of shells, early missile warfare. He said that Hitler just wanted a rocket that would go from Germany to England, loaded with explosives, WW2 ended before this was achieved.

So, America always wanting to win at any cost, loaded up the scientists working on the rockets and brought them to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. You all remember the name Von Braun.

The closest Army military hospital was at Fort McClellan, and so, the US Army brought over staffing for that hospital… German doctors and nurses… Those who could speak English… such names as Marx, Correll, Brauer, the chief nurse Cornfeld. Of course, we lowly American medical officers, knowing these people would sign our efficiency reports, just cared for patients and did what we were told. There was a stream of Germans from Huntsville to that hospital, I would often stand outside a door, then listen to those disgusting matters in German. The chief of every service was a German officer, and we think we have problems because we have athletes who would not salute our national anthem. I actually knew one German officer, who claimed to be a surgeon, assigned to the chemical core located at McClellan, it turns out he was just a medic in the German army, but he was allowed to do major surgeries in the US Army operating room. The enlisted staff knew there were crazy things going on. I said to one supposedly FBI agent who was going through the hospital for his final physical before his retirement, “Have you people ever investigated this place? Is Washington so completely blind to what is going on here?” As we have found with the FBI, in recent years, he just shrugged his shoulders and moved on.

Guardrails are placed along highways, places of danger, in the expectation of keeping something worse from happening. I will never forget the uncles-cousins, other men in our god-fearing-taxpaying family-oriented community who went to war and were lucky enough to return. They ask for nothing except the opportunity to work hard and achieve… To raise a family: to observe the guardrails of morality-decency-honesty which made our country great. I heard my brothers returning from the service talk about their treatment at a VA facility. They preferred to pay for their own treatment and that of their family. One cousin Joel, who came back wounded from the South Pacific, whose wife drove into work each day to clerk in a dime store, was forced to go to a VA hospital for treatment. He died in a hospital bed in that VA hospital (Durham, NC) and his dead body was not even discovered for many hours. Of course, with every veteran, the government knows that is far cheaper to bury a veteran than care for one. This officer was transferred from the McClellan hospital to another one and I have often wondered what happened to the Third Reich staffing which our government chose to place there. You see, craziness is nothing new… Integration of females with males on the front lines, same-sex marriages,  migrants without citizenship serving in places of warfare. With nations as with people, you reap what you sow. We have sown to the wind, and we have reaped a whirlwind (Hosea 8:7). We have been on the battlefield in the Middle East for 14 years, thousands killed, more thousands wounded, and hungry, scared children. It will take more than the greatness of President Trump to drain this swamp, clean out this hog pen. We sold our soul to Satan long ago, and the integrity that made America great is now a fleeting memory.