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The American Battling Mindset

We Americans have warriors’ blood running through our veins. Violence is programmed into our national DNA. We function by battling. This comes in handy in our military exploits as well as in everyday situations.

The United States came into being after the Revolutionary War through blood-soaked steel and flesh-tearing bullets. Then we plowed our way to the Pacific, combating both people and nature. Through violent coercion we secured the rest of what is now mainland America.

Then the two World Wars intensified our identity as a militaristic people. World War II seemed to indicate that we can achieve economic dominance over the world through war. But this is wrong. This false belief has led us astray ever since the second bomb dropped on Japan. Our misguidedness is evident by the fact that ever since the end of “The War to End All Wars” we have not stopped warring. After the War our national identity became too militaristic. We came together to battle against tyranny. Afterwards we were reluctant to put down our weapons because warring had become an end in itself.

We entered WWII out of necessity, to preserve our liberty. We were almost onto something bigger but then we lost it. We almost stumbled onto something worth fighting for but we quickly ran off track.

Our inbred, battling mindset can applied for productive purposes. We should battle to stay optimistic as we work at our jobs. We should battle to improve ourselves and the world around us. Daily life is a battle. Business is a battle. Faith in God is a battle. We should battle to stay mentally and spiritually pure. We should battle for justice in the public arena as much as in our private lives.

Our raging success in WWII distracted us. We became drunk with economic advancement. Spirits were high. It was all good. Then the veterans started to age. The baby-boomers came to power. Comfort and wealth became ends in themselves. We involved ourselves in an endless stream of international conflicts to secure our international prowess. We became increasingly involved in undeclared wars, invading preemptively rather than defensively. Since we forgot what to battle for, we just battled.

The secret to the Allies’ success in World War II was their motivation for fighting. Americans wouldn’t have joined the war voluntarily, mind you, we didn’t join the war out of charity. It just so happens that Japan made it obvious who was the oppressor and who was the oppressed. Fighting for the side of justice was unavoidable.

So is our grip on morality so slipper that we need another Pearl Harbor every ten years to put us in our place? Wow can we know what justice is? Who or what is our moral anchor? Morality is not necessarily logical, so our intellects won’t help us. We can’t coerce morality so we might as well stop looking for another national tragedy every year for inspiration. Our guide for justice and morality must be not-of-this-world. Our point of reference must be someOne holy.

As of now we Americans are distracted. Outwardly we claim to battle for justice while we compromise our morals at home. We can’t remember what’s valuable or worth battling for anymore because we don’t ask God. Unsurprisingly, money has become our end-all. If we battle for anything, it is to accumulate wealth. Average folks will do anything to get rich quick. People in power, whether political or in business, will compromise themselves and everyone around them for another buck.

But there is a way to battle for what’s right. We will battle for what’s right when we genuinely desire righteousness.

Only God can make us desire righteousness.

There is also a morally upright way to have cahones. When God develops in us an insatiable thirst for justice, then the courage to battle for justice won’t be far off.

by Patrick Roberts. Find additional resources at www.BooksByPatrick.com and www.KoGmedia.com

Why was the Battle of Gettysburg considered the most famous and important battle fought during the Civil War?

Why was it considered more important than the other battles such as the battle of Antietam? Any help would be appreciated.

Gettysburg was the turning point of the War in the East. That’s what makes it more important than Antietam. But what makes it considered the most famous and important battle of the war is the emphasis placed on the War in the East, both then and now. Vicksburg was actually a more important battle as it divided the Confederacy in two.

If you look at the War in the East you’ll find that the Federal war effort tended to be a joke prior to Gettysburg. Minor battles, such as the Battle of Roanoke Island and the Battle of New Bern tended to be the big victories for the Federals when they won them while the major battles were either disastrous or the Federal commanders failed to follow through properly. This even proves true at Gettysburg, though we’ll get to that later. When the Federals lost a battle, they lost big and retreated from the field far enough to lick their wounds and plan their next move. When they won, well if you look at Antietam, which was a strategic victory for the North with neither side being able to conclusively claim the tactical victory, then you begin to get the picture. They might not retreat from the field but the did stay to lick their wounds and plan their next move.

Gettysburg was a major victory, Lee was not only defeated on northern soil, but he lost both strategically and tactically and forced to retreat. But Meade made a serious mistake, he stayed and liked his wounds. Just as McClellan had done at Antietam, Meade had had the chance to pursue Lee and potentially destroy the Armoy of Northern Virginia and he waited to long, allowing Lee to escape, he misses the chance to deal the decisive blow. But he’s done what no one before him had managed to do once Lee took control of the Army of Northern Virginia. Win a major battle completely against one of the best generals of the war, if not the best. Again, McClellan only one Antietam strategically.

But Gettysburg had a more far reaching result. It kept foreign nations from openly supporting the Confederacy. The Confederacy had proven it could win major battles when fighting on the defensive. And Lee had proven he could win offenisively, especially if he had both Jackson and Longstreet, when fighting on southern soil (Chancellosrville was Jackson’s plan and Hooker had decided to set up for a defensive battle; Jackson’s plan, with his corps flanking the Union’s exposed right flank, meant Lee crushed Hooker at the cost of one of his two best generals). But what foreign nations really wanted was a major Confederate victory on Northern soil.

Had the Confederacy banned slavery at it’s inception foreign nations would have probably joined the Confederacy early on. Lincoln’s Emancipation wasn’t truely about freeing slaves as it only targeted those areas in open rebellion agains the federal government (the border states were the Union slave states and those areas which had come under federal occupation were no longer considered in open rebellion). Meaning the Confederacy. As the Confederacy was not yet a truely seperate nation Lincoln could declare the slaves in the Confederacy to be free. But the Confederacy did not have to obey because it had formed it’s own government and thus governed itself. Lincoln’s actual goal was to keep foreign nations out of the war by making it look as if the Federal troops were now a poliece force enforcing something the Confederacy was illegally disobeying. Remember That because the Confederacy had not yet completely broken away Lincoln could do this but he also knew that because the Confederacy had declared it’s independence and set up it’s own government that it did not have to obey him. He also knew what a sticking point slavery was with the European nations.

They were trying to decide whether to side with the Confederacy or not and the Emancipation made it less likely they’d do so. Lee had to take the war farther north than Antietam. He had to win a major offensive battle on Northern Soil to prove to the European nations that the South could truely do more than fight a defensive war. It could take the fight deep into the heart of it’s enemy and win there. And an added benefit was that Lee would then be able to turn south and threaten Washington. Destroy the Army of the Potomac, or at least send it reeling back so as to be unable to really do anything, and he could then capture the Federal capital. Even more than a win at Gettysburg that would have sent a major message to Europe.

But Meade fought the kind of defensive battle Lee was well known for. He took the high ground and Lee was unable to flank him and drive him off. The Confederacy’s last great chance to bring Europe in on their side was lost. And the following spring a man who tended to win major victories in the west would be brought back east. Grant didn’t win many major battles against Lee, but what he did do was to not retreat and lick his wounds when he lost. Instead he just changed direction, forcing Lee to have to move quickly

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