ANZAC DAY
This is indeed a day of remembering all those who died for a cause. That’s what many believed they were doing. To some it was in defence of democracy., to some it was for the protection of family and friends, to some it was because they didn’t want to feel like they were not doing their part or they wanted to make their families proud. To others it was an adventure. and to others it seemed the whole world was at stake
Looking back many of those survivors realized, as with all wars that the war was mostly to do with greed and power. By the people in power that start wars yet seldom served in them.
Some war veterans were asked recently whether they thought the war was worth it. Was the cost and the price they paid worth it?
For many the answer was no. the sheer hell of it and the loss of those dearest to them, their brothers in arms could not have compared with what they were fighting to protect. They went to fight communism and fascism to keep our freedoms but when they returned, they found that those ideologies had already taken root. They have seen the hard one freedom being gradually yielded up by those who remained.
The enemy didn’t die although for a time they were defeated in battle.
It turned out the enemy wasn’t people. Not the average German or Japanese soldier but ideologies that had its roots in such a simple place as the fertile soil of human nature, released form the moral, and spiritual constraints that kept this inward evil within a framework that enabled humanity to co exists in mostly amiable endeavours.
The war has not been won it turned out as many returned servicemen have seen unfolding with their own eyes. The war against greed and tyranny and plain old wickedness wages war in each of us and we keep it in check by utilisation of the laws of God as a mirror of our true state. We use to base our Western culture on god’s laws but we have been steadily rejecting them. We are busy undoing much of the work of the second world war. The enemy is still alive and now mostly intrenched in corporate greed and exploitation. Freedom and a person’s rights have been abducted by the same governments that swore to uphold them.
Wolves disguised in sheep’s clothing that slipped unawares into the ranks under auspices of health and safety reforms, gender diversity and inclusivity.
Even the church, which was once a major cornerstone of a society’s conscience has largely been struck dumb, baffled by the cries for greater freedoms by groups of the minority that cried for equality, that once achieved then turned on the majority. We thought freedom meant that everyone could have a voice and a say to live their lives as they wished and yet by doing so the moral fibre that held society together and formed the cohesive bond that saw our brother’s father and sons go to war has been torn asunder.
We learned that we couldn’t love our neighbours but be suspicious. We learned that someone who had a different point of view in regards to their own health was likely the enemy and had to be avoided lest they breathed upon us. We took socialist roles in businesses when we didn’t even hold socialists’ views because we were told we had too and made people choose between a jab or their job. Family members refused to see each other.
family members who had taken a different view of what was reported a health risk. Those who refused to believe in the government narrative did so because they thought they were protecting people and those who insisted on the mandates believed equally the same thing. In a way the enemy wasn’t defeated on the shores of countries thousands of miles away. It was also being fought at home but to many returned service men we have lost more than we gained.
So, we do remember them. Yes, they were heroes in their own right and perhaps they were the very best of us. If we remember them let us also honour them as they should have been honoured. By continuing the fight to keep New Zealand free and to keep the bond of love between ourselves whilst upholding the standards of decency, morality, democracy and good conscience before God and man.
If we stand for nothing and if we fold our arms and allow corporates to take over our governments. If we allow them to treat human beings as though they were a commodity to grow rich of the backs of our own children. To let immoral people teach our children that its ok to Engauge in debauchery. Then we are in very real danger of offering our brave men on an alter of nothing and agree with those who returned alive only to declare at the end of their lives that it was all for nothing. Let’s remember them as we should and keep freedom alive at least in one small part of New Zealand.