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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StLPro2A" data-source="post: 3980583" data-attributes="member: 48052">Vets sign on that proverbial dotted iine, leave family/home, train, kit up, go into harm's way to protect American freedom/rights/liberties on foreign soil.  Then, come home to build a life enjoying those freedoms/rights/liberties only to have politicians take those very freedoms/rights/liberties from under their noses....nary a shot fired in defense.  Wondering why go into harm's way.  Our oath to "...defend against enemies foreign and domestic..." never expires.  Not an "enemy in the wire" scenario.  Today, and for decades, the enemy sits in the Command Post.“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”An excerpt from "A Pillar of Iron" by Taylor Caldwell depicting the spirit of ancient Rome in its last days of glory. The hero of the story, the man called "a pillar of iron" is Marcus Tullius Cicero, the lawyer-statesman who tried vainly to save the republic he loved from the forces of tyranny.History.....learn from it; repeat it; or, die from it.Mr. Makowski, 10th Grade World History, was right after all.</blockquote>

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