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Learning Lessons from History
America needs to examine and learn the lessons from history: All the might of nations and
empires of the ancient world CRUMBLED from
internal weakness
, as can be noted with
Babylon and Rome.
Every empire fell when its people LOST their sense of purpose, their character and self-respect
and began loving the life of EASE, complacency, self-indulgence and moral lassitude
(
weariness, fatigue
).
China built a great wall to keep out invaders – but forgot that all an enemy had to do was to
BRIBE a gate-keeper. Three times gate-keepers were bribed and the enemy invaded China.
The people of America have forgotten that it was A LACK OF VIGILANCE with
COMPLACENCY that catapulted WWII upon a sleepy world.
It would appear that nothing has been learned from the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm,
Iraq, and now Afghanistan. Most people today – from America’s Civil War of the early 1860s –
to use President Lincoln’s words –
have forgotten God!
From the Internet
: On January 18, 1837 the effort was made to keep
God in our remembrance by having imprinted on our coins, we spend,
“IN GOD WE TRUST.”
It was first used on paper money in 1957.
Whatever trust people had in God at that time has ceased to exist
except for the very few. The words have become meaningless to the
majority of people.
The minted dollars of 2007 have had this inscription on the rim
of the coin – instead of the face.
Internet: In 2009
"In God We Trust"
was moved from the edge to the
face of the coin. The size,
weight and metal composition
of the Presidential $1 Coins
are identical to that of the
and the
Thanksgiving Day
President Abraham Lincoln also established a national day of
thanksgiving to REMIND America’s citizens yearly of the
need of being truly thankful to God for His bountiful
blessings in his 1863 Proclamation:
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