Dear Friend,
Each year on November 11, we celebrate Veterans Day to honor our fellow Americans who have answered the call to serve. Through their courageous service and sacrifice, our veterans have preserved the many freedoms we all enjoy and helped ensure this nation remains the greatest on Earth.
In the days following Veterans Day, I have found myself thinking a lot about the Greatest Generation. This incredible group of American heroes joined the fight against Axis powers and embarked to free the world from fascist tyranny. This of course included liberating the Jewish people from the horrors of Nazi concentration camps.
Many members of the Greatest Generation along with the Jewish survivors brought terrible stories of the Holocaust back to the United States, and we as a nation swore that we would never stand by and allow any nation or group to try to exterminate the Jewish people ever again.
Sadly, after Hamas carried out its brutal October 7th terrorist attack on Israel, which resulted in the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, we have seen a disturbing rise in antisemitism right here in the United States. We have seen bigots tear down posters of kidnapped Israeli children, protesters call for the extermination of Israel, and many students and faculty at some of our nation’s most prestigious universities celebrate violent Hamas murderers and rapists as freedom fighters.
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, only about 119,000 of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II are still alive. After recent current events, I am left to wonder what these surviving heroes think of America today.
Some in America seem to have lost their way - unable to discern the difference between right and wrong, good and evil.
As we remember the heroism of American veterans, like those who served in World War II, I ask you to also remember the ideals they fought for. The mission of the Greatest Generation was literally to eradicate the world of evil, and we owe it to their memories to carry on that fight.
This means we cannot stand idly by as our friends and allies are persecuted and attacked. We cannot remain silent as those in universities and the highest levels of government call for the extermination of the Israeli state and the Jewish people. We must push back on this evil ideology.
