To the Editor:
The president of our company shared from his father’s experiences in World War II. It is an insider’s glimpse into the USA’s part in defeating the twin threats of Emperor-worship of Japan, and Fascism (a form of Socialism) of Hitler:
‘My Father was a sailor in WW2 and based on a small island in the Pacific.
He remembers one day getting up and at sunrise he could see ships in a convoy going to the next battle — Iwo Jima.
He could not see the beginning or the end of the convoy.
When the sun set he could still not see the end of the convoy — it was that massive.
He told me stories of great damage ships took during battles.
One story was when a bomb hit a cruiser and a fire broke out below deck.
It was a horrible blaze that was destroying the ship.
The blaze was so hot people’s shoes were melting on deck.
People were jumping overboard.
Finally the captain of the ship called to abandon ship.
Yet the lead firefighter wouldn’t let his hose down.
Other sailors told him get out of here, but he did something unbelievable.
He pushed closer to the fire. The heat was unbelievable.
Seeing this, other sailors regained their hoses and followed the lead sailor.
It took hours of extremely dangerous work, but the ship was saved.’
So much “blood and treasure” was invested to help defeat socialism in that day. Let us learn from history, instead of repeating it.
Beware of the sweet bait offered by the U.S. Democrat/Socialist party. Socialism and communism have never worked for the benefit of the people anywhere it has been tried.
Just ask the tens of millions who died in the purges, the millions who now live only as their government dictates, and the few who have successfully escaped to the US from those “Peoples’ Paradises.”
Yet Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi and others are having success, especially with the millennials, in making people believe in Santa Claus.
Let us be like the hero in the WW2 story, and save our ship of state this November, and every day.
James Andrews
Siler City