Why I WROTE

WHY I WROTE, “RISE UP, O MEN OF GOD!” This book was the outcome of my search for understanding. Two of my brothers and I served during the Vietnam War. My brother Richard was drafted into the Army and was posted to Vietnam during the ending days of the war. He was killed in action days after he arrived. The senselessness of his death left me to wonder how a primitive third-world country could defeat a superpower like America, which never lost on the Vietnamese battlefields. In my search for understanding, I spent several years in the Seattle Public Library. I studied the works of communist leaders like Mao, Tram van Dong, Ho Chi Minh and V.I. Lenin. These theorists clearly discussed their goals and strategies. These were used from Malaysia to Cambodia to Nicaragua. Part of their methodology was to create a radical front at home to ignite public pressure against the war. History records communist theorists were so successful many of their programs and platforms are working throughout the
I understood that those of us who live in these times also live through all times. I finally accepted that I owed my allegiance to the living God and to all those men and women before me who had struggled, prayed, sweated, bled and then died for their God-given freedoms. I was no better than them and could do no less than participate in God’s plan for a fallen world. Historically, we have always considered ourselves to be a Christian nation. I wonder if that is any longer true. Have we moved so far from our Christian roots that we no longer recognize our enemies? In my studies I started to understand the communist mind. I noticed that deception was almost always used to masquerade their goals of political and economic domination. They have also proved to be some of history’s most vicious killers. I found remarkable similarities between the communist mind abroad and the humanist mind at