Chairman Allen West's Monday Message for 5.31.21





















Earn This
Greetings, everyone!
Today is Memorial Day. I humbly pray y'all
are not running around and saying "Happy Memorial Day." Today is
not about happiness, it is about honor! Today is about those who
gave the last full measure of devotion; the ultimate sacrifice
for country, and for those who desire liberty and freedom from
tyranny. Today is a day when we should focus less on barbecues,
swimming pools, and retail sales, and instead, take a walk among
the gardens of stone. I suppose if we could fully realize the
folly of saying "Happy Memorial Day" and replace it with "Honor
Memorial Day," we would indeed honor this day . . . not just
today, but every day.
The title of this missive should be
remembered and recognized by everyone, it comes from the movie,
"Saving Private Ryan." I am quite sure that the movie will be
playing today. It is a story from the Greatest Generation and the
day of the largest amphibious operation in history, Operation
Overlord, known as D-Day, June 6, 1944. The movie tells the story
of Ranger Company Commander, CPT Miller, portrayed by Tom Hanks.
The opening is without a doubt the most graphic and true
portrayal of what it was like for our brave American heroes who
hit the beaches of Normandy. The crux of the film is that one
young paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division, PVT Ryan,
played by Matt Damon, has unknowingly lost all of his three
brothers in combat . . . and all three letters arrived at once to
a patriotic mother. The decision was made to find Ryan and get
him back home, a mission that fell to CPT Miller and a select few
from his infantry company.
They do find PVT Ryan during an anti-armor
ambush against the Germans. Instead of being immediately
extracted, Ryan refuses to leave his fellow "troopers" as there
is an imminent German counter-offensive coming to capture a
critical bridge crossing. In the end, all of CPT Miller's group,
save one, are killed, along with most of Ryan's squad. CPT Miller
is shot, and as he is dying, he pulls Ryan close to him and
utters these impactful two words, "earn this."
Today, there are generations of those laid to
rest in the gardens of stone who are calling out to America,
"earn this." They are challenging us, just as CPT Miller did, to
earn the sacrifices of their lives.
Vincent Speranza, 101st Airborne Division,
Battle of Bastongne veteran
The end of the movie goes forward to a grown
Ryan, older, asking his wife to "tell me I was a good man, tell
me I lived a good life."
America -- Texas -- if we were to ask
ourselves if we are truly earning the sacrifices of those for
whom we honor today, what would our honest answer be?
There are still World War II Veterans who are
alive. Recently, I lost a dear friend, Ray Lambert, a veteran of
the 16th Infantry Regiment, First Infantry Division, Omaha Beach,
Normandy. These men who fought the vilest of tyrannies, National
Socialist (Nazi) Germany, fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan,
probably never believed they would find those very principles,
tyranny, existing in their very own America. Our brave heroes who
gave their lives fighting against Stalinism, socialism, and
communism would have never thought there would be a Communist
Party USA, Antifa, or a Marxist organization calling themselves
BLM, who have recently aligned themselves with an Islamic
jihadist group, Hamas.
How many of those who have lost their lives
at the hands of Islamic jihadists in Iraq, Afghanistan, or at
home such as 9-11, would believe we would have members of our
very own Congress supporting Islamic terrorist groups. Or that we
would have Islamic legal jihadists as part of a DoD working group
seeking our "extremists" in our military, meaning conservatives.
Ray Lambert, 16th Infantry Division, veteran
of World War II, Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944
Our honored dead must be rolling in their
graves knowing that a US military officer was relieved of command
for speaking out against Marxism, the antithesis of our
Constitutional Republic and its fundamental principles. After
all, those who made the ultimate sacrifice took an oath to
support and defend our constitution against all enemies, foreign
and domestic. But, it appears to be quite en vogue to undermine
our rule of law.
Does anyone believe that we "earn this" by
having wide-open borders that allow illegal immigrants to flood
our country, commit horrific acts of violence, such as the
illegal immigrant who murdered Mollie Tibbets in Iowa? Is that
how we Honor Memorial Day, by enabling the undermining of our
very own country?
Do we honor our fallen by voting into office
-- including the highest office in the land -- those who truly
believe America is a horrible country, racist, and redefines our
history and founding to align with the new Marxist ideology of
racial divisiveness? Yes, I am quite sure there are those who
think everything is just great now in America. They are the ones
who probably have never visited the gardens of stone and hold our
real heroes in utter disdain. They are not "earning this." They
are destroying this, for which many have died to support and
defend.
CPL Herman "Buck" West, Sr., World War II
veteran
My dad and mom are among those buried in a
national cemetery. My resolve and dedication to fight for America
emanate from them, the original "Guardians of the Republic" in
our family. Every day of my life is dedicated to that simple
challenge, "earn this." At the age of fifteen, my dad challenged
me to be the first officer in our family. It was a great day when
Dad and Mom pinned on my Second Lieutenant rank on the campus of
the University of Tennessee.
July 31, 1982
Today, Memorial Day 2021, be still and
listen, America, and you will hear it, the voices of those men
and women who have gone before us. They are saying "earn this."
Will you accept the challenge going forward?
Or, will you continue to say "Happy Memorial Day," and spit upon
the hallowed ground fertilized by the blood of heroes, and
watered by the tears of those they left behind?
Jesus once said to His apostles at the last
supper, " . . . this do in remembrance of Me." What are you doing
today -- and every day -- in remembrance of our fallen Soldiers,
Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen? And, spare me the
insidious gender-neutral bovine excrement!


HONOR MEMORIAL DAY!!!!
Steadfast and Loyal,

LTC Allen B. West (Ret.)
Chairman
Republican Party of Texas


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