Okay, I'll take it all back! Well, not quite all of it but some of it. Yesterday, Peter Marshall who wrote The Light and the Glory about our early beginnings guested on the 700 Club as it was the 400th anniversary of the landing in Virginia, 1607. April 29th that is. Anyway, he pointed out they did not settle there as dissenters, but came there claiming the land in the name of Jesus Christ. This was, of course, in the time of King James who authorized the King James Bible in 1611, so they were not dissenters as those who came a decade or so later, settling in New England.

What the VA settlers did was erect a cross on the beach and have a prayer service, and believe it or not, dedicated the land to Jesus Christ! Imagine that!!! We are scarcely allowed to mention that Name above all Names out loud and it isn't getting better, it promises to get worse as the enemies of state and nation are busily at work like termites to bring down the structure of our society, based on the God they hate!

Yesterday also carried the news the Supreme Court, if you can believe it, decided California VFW could keep their cross which is on the scorching sand, gila monsters, rattlesnakes and the like, on the Mohave Desert in California. That made me pause for reflection and I spent a miserable hour on the web seeking out pictures of our military cemeteries, i.e., My late husband a 6-year veteran of the AF in the unpleasantness of WWII is buried in Riverside, where there are no crosses on the graves. If you see pictures on remembrance days of rows of crosses, they almost always are overseas in France or even Belgium. Not in the United States. I have long pointed this out, but almost no one notices my whining!

I started whining a long time ago because I clearly recall Eisenhower's first appointment was Anna Rosenberg to the DOD in 1952-53, and her first order was to have all crosses removed from American national cemeteries. The flap that ensued was deflected from the crosses to the fact that she was said to be a Communist, and there was so much conversation in the press and elsewhere (there wasn't much on that new medium of communication, TV, as today), hinging on whether the woman was a Communist that what she ordered seemed somehow to be overlooked in the fuss. Maybe that was the payoff, look at her and not at what she did. I don't remember much else about her except that old ruse of saying there were two Anna Rosenbergs, when there patently was not, served as a distraction from the real issue of removing the symbols of Christianity from our veterans graves!

Anyway, I passed a large portion of yesterday looking up some of the 131 national cemeteries in the 39 states, and found one small cross and could not identify the grave site, nor could I tell you today where it was, because I was getting cross-eyed by then. Anyone who has time and energy to spare can look for themselves: Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemeteries. I especially wrote the late Dr. Kennedy annually when speaking of Gettysburg and Valley Forge, as I never saw any crosses there either. There are crosses in "Flanders Fields, where poppies grow, between the crosses, row on row." That was penned by a Canadian surgeon in WWI who was killed not long after. It was such a poignant piece it soon crept into American schoolrooms, although I doubt it is heard there any longer--nor are the other long time favorites, i.e., Don't give up the ship; don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes; or the strains of America, the beautiful; Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, and many more patriotic old favorites. Those remembrances of our earliest heroes disappeared at least by 1946 with our entry into UNESCO under the aegis of Alger Hiss and his buddy, Dean Acheson. We'll have more to say about them another day.