Letter to my Great-Grand Children

To the children of my grand children: my legacy, the legacy of my generation, will be upon you about now. Be brave, in a thousand years, this, too, will pass.

My parents and I built a great and grand nation, this United States that has held court and kept the peace during much of my life through force of arms and through judicious use of a vast treasury. I was proud to have taken part of the Pax Americana under the waves, my service, with that of thousands of other young men and women, part of what made our way of life for the better part of a century.

Have you studied Rome, or have the schools finally fallen completely to the elite? As the great empire Rome once kept peace in what it knew as its world, so the borders quaked with a new religion, a religion born of martyrs and zealots, a religion that eventually enveloped the empire itself, and changed it to the core, dismantling the Roman culture, weakening the Roman fist. Rome feel as much from within as from the incessant pounding by tribes that wanted a piece of the glory and riches of Rome from without.

My nation-empire's fall began from its assault by a religion, hitherto almost unknown in the West, the religion of Islam, an attack beginning on the borders. The religion, one of martyrs and zealots, attacked the core of Western culture, seeking to dismantle what it felt was sick and evil about the country. They were right in many ways; we were sick, and many evil influences held sway throughout American culture. In the end, the incessant wars throughout the world on American holdings, as well as the weakening of American institutions from within caused the total collapse of our society.

And as happened with the theocracies of the Middle Ages, we entered an era of no education, little enlightenment, petty inhumanities, and a general meanness of life. This is the legacy we leave to you, my great grandchildren, a Second Dark Age. My hope for you is that the change the last Dark Age worked on Christianity will be worked ever quicker on Islam, and that your own grandchildren will see a brighter future in an enlightened, caring world.

MMG