America's Words

 

President Eisenhower's Words 

                  about military Parades                   

President (and General) Eisenhower strongly rejected the idea of a military parade to showcase to the world America's military might. Eisenhower’s response:

“Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

One lone soldier in Trump's parade, holding aloft a small drone marching by himself, down the avenue, looking small and very insignificant...President Eisenhower was so very right...

 The most difficult part of this event for me was at the end when the President administered the Oath of Office to the new and reenlisting young men and women. The words he spoke...

 “"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

I wondered what the young minds of these brave men and women were thinking when the person who was administering this sacred oath had instigated an insurrection at our Nations capital and was breaking his oath daily in his quest for more power to make himself a king. On the “No Kings Day” of protests, nation wide, our numbers were in the millions, saying, NO .