Repent then Recruit
An Open Letter to Our Representatives over the Navy Recruiting Disaster
Dear Sir:
I write as your humble servant, a North Carolina Veteran of thirty-two years, who enlisted in the Navy as an E-1 at seventeen years of age and retired as an 06 Army officer, the son of a WWII naval officer whose service in commanding a U. S. Merchant Marine ship’s battle with German U-boats, eventually took his life when I was only five, and whose brother, my uncle, a Chief Petty Officer was killed in that conflict. I am the great-grandson of a Civil War veteran in the great trial of our People. His father, from Anson County, fought in the War of 1812. His grandfather from Orange County fought in the American Revolutionary War. I don't recite my military lineage to boast (one who does his duty has nothing to boast in). I write these things for one reason: the Navy and Department of Defense under this Democratic Socialist administration have slapped me, my fathers, and our service brothers and fathers in the face.
The action of Navy recruiters using a so-called recruiting video (who are you recruiting?) of an individual wearing a Navy Petty Officer uniform and, then dressed in a drag queen outfit, is demeaning to our nation’s women and girls and a national disgrace to the US Armed Forces, our Allies, and the American People. Sir, I appeal to you to do your best to remove these pretenders from our Armed Forces, and before his immediate resignation, advise the POTUS, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of the Navy to give a televised apology to, at least our nation’s Veterans, widows, and orphans.
Even if such an incredibly shameful gimmick worked—and it can’t, it won’t, for stout-hearted young American boys will turn away in disgust (I know we recruit females, but at the end of the day, we must have strapping, young dedicated males who could defeat an enemy in hand-to-hand combat)—we will have displayed such unprofessionalism that our enemies will rejoice as our Allies retreat.
The action of Navy recruiters using a so-called recruiting video (who are you recruiting?) of an individual wearing a Navy Petty Officer uniform and, then dressed in a drag queen outfit, is demeaning to our nation’s women and girls and a national disgrace to the US Armed Forces, our Allies, and the American People.
Sir, I have to say, I am downcast (but not done). As I learned of this national sacrilege, I became physically Ill. But, nevertheless, our Veterans, Gold Star Mothers, and Widows will not see our Forces destroyed from within. We are older now. We can no longer guard our nation and fight the enemy with the agility and strength of youth, but we do influence those who can. We will rear our children and grandchildren to stand in God’s Word, strengthen themselves in spirit, mind, and body, and stand tall for the “City on a hill.” We will not give up our sacred institutions without a response. And, Sir, our answer is spiritual. For what the mush-minded recruiters did in encouraging this depravity is, undeniably, spiritual—of the darkest kind.
We are older now. We can no longer guard our nation and fight the enemy with the agility and strength of youth, but we do influence those who can. We will rear our children and grandchildren to stand in God’s Word, strengthen themselves in spirit, mind, and body, and stand tall for the “City on a hill.”
Congressman and Senator: You are our voice. Please, I ask, let our cries echo in the halls of Congress. We have served God and Country. So please serve with us. Stand tall, be unmovable, and be undeterred on behalf of those without voice. As you do, I pray the Lord to watch over you, your family, and every precious staff member. And remember: the battle belongs to the Lord. We don’t wish ill of the delusional drag queen or any imbecilic bureaucrat. Instead, we love them and pray for healing. We are but sinners saved by grace. May God change their hearts to find the peace and purpose they indeed lack. There is a better way.
I long to see a flotilla of changed lives, a nation of stalwart young men standing tall, standing proud in the uniforms worn by Washington, Eisenhower, Nimitz, Roosevelt, Jimmy Stewart, and Schwarzkopf, shoulder to shoulder, daring any oppressors even to threaten any American woman, any child or elderly citizen. In my mind, I see our young men in innumerable columns, singing in one resonant baritone voice: “Faith of our Fathers, holy faith, we will be true to Thee till death.”
That, Sir, is the kind of vision that will recruit. It also a vision for long term success.