Nomad News-Vol.3-No.73

WE WILL RESTORE THE REPUBLIC On November 4 we will elect a new president. On November 5, when we awaken, will we hear the Liberty Bell ring out this message that is inscribed on the Bell: “Proclaim Liberty thro’ all the Land to all the Inhabitants Thereof” Leviticus XXV.10.” As I was thinking about this, my mind travelled back in time to July 1944. It was the time when the ground forces finally broke through at St. Lo in Normandy. My squadron had already been moved to an airport at Dreaux and I had stayed behind to wait for one of my section members, Mike Spero, who was in a field hospital suffering from dysentery. Mike was now lying in the bed of the small weapons carrier and I was winding my way through piles of bricks and shattered walls that had once been St. Lo. The only standing structure I observed, though badly damaged, was the cathedral with an artillery shell embedded in the stone wall. This scenario would be repeated later, city after city, all the way to Braunsweig, Germany and beyond. In 2000, after several trips to France when I had always purposefully bypassed Normandy (I have 10,000 comrades still there) I returned to St. Lo and to an unbelievingly beautiful monument to human endeavor. The city folks had known about the ancient ramparts surrounding the city that had been covered over in years past. These were all uncovered and reconstructed as of old. The only remaining remnant of war was the artillery shell still embedded in the cathedral’s stone wall. This scenario, too, had been repeated , city after city all the way to Braunsweig, Germany and beyond. Someone had to pick up the first brick until all the rubble was cleared. Then someone had to pick up the first brick to rebuild, put it back in place, put a little mortar on it, then place another brick on top until the city was restored. This is what we must do now. Some of the rubble has already been removed. We will continue, brick by brick, until our shattered Constitutional Republic is restored. Copyright-Andy Dolan