From Bells to Bullets?

Between 1939-1945 about 175 thousand church bells were confiscated across Europe by the Socialist Nazi Germany! They were confiscated and collected at a point in Hamburg Germany known as the Glockenfriedhofe or the bell cemetery. Some 150 thousand were delivered to foundries and melted down to make shell casings and armaments. Benito Mussolini dictator of Italy part of the Axis WWII powers forged an agreement with the Pope to provide church bells for him in the war effort which most were shipped to Germany for processing. Socialism will always turn the instruments of God into instruments of war! Socialism in history as of today has about a casualty rate of about 100 million people! Now America is going to try it? Today a Protestant Reverend living in Cologne Germany recently told the German Broadcasting Service, Deutsche Welle, “the silence of the bells makes it clear something has fallen apart.” Did you know there is a Bible verse on our Liberty Bell located in Philadelphia Pennsylvania? It is Leviticus 25:10; “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” As a child growing up in Nebraska on a farm back in the 1950’s on Sunday morning I used to hear those church bells ring across the communities of Nebraska! Some would ring at nine some ten and some at eleven o’clock! Grandma! Grandma do you hear the bells? Yes Jimmy we have to get ready for Sunday school! Jimmy why do the bells ring? Time for church grandma! Yes Jimmy but there is another reason? We all have clocks so why ring a bell? Grandma because some people cannot afford a clock they are too poor! Jimmy the ringing of the bells is proclaiming liberty across America! What is liberty grandma? Jimmy it means the sacrifice God has provided for us through his Son is acceptable to God for us on the Cross for our sin! Jesus paid our price for our wrongs or sin! That is what liberty is all about Jimmy! Forgiveness for our wrongs or sins against God and man! Bells are first mentioned in your Bible in Exodus 28:31-35. Aaron the High Priest had them on his robe and as he walked in the presence of God offering the sacrifice for the sins of the people the people knew if they continued to hear the bells ring they knew the sacrifice was acceptable! If not Arron had a rope tied around his ankle where the people could drag his dead body out of the Holy of Holies if the sacrifice was not enough to atone for the sins of the people! Remember Cain and Abel? When the sacrifice of Cain was not enough he murdered Abel his brother! So I said all that to say this! What has happened to the ringing sounds of liberty across America with ringing bells proclaiming liberty for all? Why have the bells gone silent? When a culture any culture rejects the sacrifice of Christ that culture is doomed for destruction! The bells are made into bullets with violence and death throughout our major cities! Not safe to walk down the streets in America anymore! Plagues upon our land! Drought! Civil war with riots, burning and looting! Perhaps we need to hang up the church bells back up into those towers? Our American Revolution started in a church tower at Concord and the first shots were fired on the church grounds that began the Revolution! Does the church need to get revolutionary and take back America or do we let it slip away with our liberties into the abyss of Marxist Socialism stealing our liberty away and our nation? James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com

Christmas Vietnam 1967

We have been ordered to take Hill 875. The hill has been bombarded by air power and artillery for the past three days! The ground shakes under our feet and our ears ring from the deafening sounds of battle. We are at the base line of this hill yet the Vietnamese continue to come down off this mountain at night and attack our positions! If we do not take this hill then we will all die! As a leader I know the only way we will take this hill is to send our best men up this hill. This means our best men will die! This is the way life works! God gave His best shall we then do less? I have tried in a thousand ways to take this hill without loss of life but the longer we wait the more American’s die! The only solution is to charge up this mountain and take it for America. We should put a U.S. consulate on this hill after we finish our job! It is difficult to maintain morale here with all those radical liberal college professors and their students fighting against us back home! They have joined Ho Chi Minh and his ideology of murder! It is better they stay back in America than be here with us where they would get us all killed! No Monday morning quarterbacks out here! You make a mistake out here and you do not see Monday! I wish our politicians understood this? I have to leave enough troops behind to recover our bodies and remove our wounded off this mountain to our helicopters to take them back to base camp. If I lead the charge the good men will follow! Freedom is cheap to those who have never paid the price! Those who lead the rebel’s back in America against this war can only do so by the freedoms obtained by those that went before them and paid the sacrifices to win victory over our enemies! Another officer got fragged yesterday? We must wait until daylight before the charge to allow the enemy to return to their positions on top of the mountain. The sun has now broken the dawn and now I must lead the charge up this mountain! The first one hundred yards was uneventful? I figure they figured we were not stupid enough to do this! They were wrong! Then they opened up with all they had! Machine guns, rocket launchers, grenades, mortars! It was rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air! We just kept running forward up the mountain! I kept getting hit with tree bark in the face from bullets cutting up the trees! The other problem was dirt hitting me in the face from bullets dancing around my feet! We would run right past gun positions and then break off behind them and clean them out! We got to the top of Hill 875 and planted the American flag on the top of the hill. We claimed this hill for America and Liberty! It is Christmas now and we count our Blessings we have obtained through our sacrifices and God’s sacrifice! We do not serve a bloodless Christ and we will never win a bloodless war! Squad Leader, Screaming Eagles, United States Marines, Christmas, Vietnam, 1967