Email from American Values Please share with your fellow prayer warriors.   Fighting For Faith, Family & Freedom Saturday, June 28, 2025 To: Friends & Supporters From: Carol Bauer As you know, my wife, Carol, prepares a monthly prayer alert. I hope you will share Carol's thoughts with your friends and fellow worshipers. Thank you for taking an interest in her monthly devotion. -- Gary The cascading news of the past few days has been breathtaking! After decades of American presidents pledging that Iran should never and would never become a nuclear power, one president tried months of diplomacy, issued a final challenge to engage in talks, was rebuffed, and then did what others only wished they had accomplished (or were afraid to do) -- destroyed Iran’s nuclear weapons program, which had Israel and America in its crosshairs. I have often said that one of my favorite things about President Trump is that he is a plain talker. He speaks like a regular person, not a politician. Pontificating in platitudes marked by words that could be open to interpretation -- that is not him! All that to say, he very simply did what he said he would do. Period. Aside from a president’s consequential words being put into deeds, there are other facets of the last week of news that bear highlighting. The military mission was flawlessly implemented with no leaks and multiple deceptive moves. Involving over 125 military aircraft, from B-2 bombers to fighter jets to refueling tankers in the sky, the operation was a symphony of American military prowess. A U.S. submarine launched more than two dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles against Iranian surface infrastructure to further broaden the attack. Add to the mix the decoy flights and a suddenly reticent president who avoided the press for 24 hours and took a quiet overnight to his golf club in New Jersey (but didn’t play golf!), and you have the makings of a perfectly executed operation. Bravo, I say! My favorite description of the operation comes from the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, who described it as “a complex, tightly timed maneuver requiring exact synchronization across multiple platforms in a narrow piece of airspace.” When you watch Gen. Caine in a press conference, it’s abundantly clear why he was chosen for his new role. He, too, is a plain talker. A couple of days later, President Trump was heralded by our NATO allies like a conquering hero as they each underscored their new financial commitment to NATO’s defense over the next decade from a paltry 2% to 5% of their GDP, an increase that seemed impossible not long ago. In short, President Trump has disrupted expectations and, in so doing, achieved outcomes that seemed beyond possible. As a friend put it, who knew that a developer from Queens might be the one to bring lasting peace to the Middle East -- and I add to that -- and then some. Thank our Heavenly Father for His guiding hand upon our leaders and those men and women in our military who flawlessly executed Operation Midnight Hammer. We, a grateful nation, will never know their names and their individual roles. We will be unable to thank them in person. Dear Lord, please fill each of them with a sense of our pride and a nod of our appreciation. Prompt us to thank those Armed Services members who do cross our paths. Dear Lord, we ask for Your protection on our president, vice president, cabinet members, members of Congress, the judiciary, and their families. We know there are plots designed against certain individuals. Keep all those in the nation's leadership safe from those who seek to do them, or us, harm. Guide us all in the uncertain days ahead as we seek to do Your will in these challenging times. Next week will be our nation’s birthday. As we mark the coming Fourth of July, the country launches a year of celebrations leading to the nation’s 250th birthday on July 4, 2026. It will be huge! You just know how President Trump will want to mark the historic event! This is the perfect year to turn our focus to incorporating American history and patriotism into family discussions. The events of the last week make it a good time to underscore, for the younger generation, the source of our pride in America. Dear Lord, never let us forget the gift of being born in this special country where we are free to practice our faith and where we collectively have a voice in electing our leaders. It is easy to become complacent and forget the uniqueness of America. Prompt us to look for opportunities to share our love of country with the next generation among us. We are in awe and bursting with thanks at the times in our history when You have guided our steps as a nation. We have been brought low at times. 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