Veterans Died So We Could Vote – Let It Not Be in Vain

Across America our nation’s citizens gather today to honor the sacrifices of our veterans. We, the people, must ensure that those sacrifices were not made in vain by remembering what it was that our veterans fought for and what it is our military now still defends—the Constitution of the United States of America.

I personally will never forget the loving parents of a Marine I served with in Iraq. He, their only child, died under my command from injuries sustained during combat operations in Iraq. They looked me squarely in the eye, handed me a small copy of the Constitution, and told me: “NEVER forget what our son died fighting for.”

I promise, I will never forget.

Today our nation faces an immediate and profound choice. Not the choice between political candidates but the choice to either uphold our Constitution (and the freedom it guarantees) or to discard it.

Over the past week, as I witnessed the events surrounding our most recent election unfold, I found myself seeking the wisdom of our Founders by re-reading their words on those pages.  I found myself observing the stark reality that both the procedures outlined in the Constitution and the basic rights it guarantees are both under immense assault—which is an immense disrespect to our citizens and, especially, our veterans.

Ultimately, our freedom depends on transparent, secure, and Constitutionally-sound elections. If our own lawful votes, regardless of which candidate they support, can be changed or nullified, then we are not free.

All forms of election fraud disenfranchise our citizens, whether it be physically tampering with ballots, domestic or international actors electronically manipulating voter databases, or states establishing un-Constitutional election procedures.

At the time of the founding of our nation, our first “veterans”—the citizen-soldiers known as “Minutemen”—were the ones sounding the alarm and warning of the presence of tyranny in the land, then in the form of a powerful British empire.

Today’s “Minutemen” —those asking questions about voter irregularities across multiple states and warning about the tyranny it portends—have been censored by social media and ridiculed by the mainstream.

For years, the “mainstream” media has been complicit in political bias and misinformation; and many Americans have either come to expect it or, worse, succumbed to it. More than 90 percent of media outlets in America are owned by six corporations and the largest social media outlets are enmeshed with a small number of tech giants—most which are powerfully censoring truth about election fraud and defaming those investigating it.

We celebrated Veteran’s Day this week.  If Americans want to honor those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, they can start with seeking the truth about what threatens our elections, and thus, our Constitution, our freedoms, and our Republic.