With your light of liberty, safe guarded and protected, should the time come, you can help us reignite our flame from the coal.

Many of us are trying to shield it from the coming winds. Though should it go out, we will protect the ember, because we know "For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal will never expire." (Thomas Payne)

Friends abroad, in Europe and beyond, please take up the light of liberty. Safe guard it for us. I fear ours is dim. It is no more bright than a guttering candle now, fighting to shine despite the coming storm.

For my friends abroad:

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
From The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

Alas, no more.

"Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state."
-Army Talk: Orientation Fact Sheet 64
Written 24 March 1945