Stand with Israel

Never did I think in my lifetime the United States would turn its back on Israel.  The Obama Administration purposely abstained during a vote in the United Nations Security Council that basically destroyed all chance for peace between The Palestinians and Israel.  The same U.N. Security Council that ignores the genocide in Syria and the constant murders and harassment brought on Israel by the Hamas in the West Bank.  The same U.N. that says nothing about the civil rights violation in China or the horror going on Allepo has now chosen to attack our only ally in the Middle East and we help stab them in the back.  Call on President Elect Trump to get the U.S. out of the United Nations, it’s a fools mission with no mission other than to collect our money and works against our interests.  Obama has allowed his personal hatred for Israel to jade his judgment and has gone against the interests of the United States.  It’s time for his reign as wanna be King to end.  Israel claims to have proof the Administration actively worked to push this and the Obama Administration is claiming it had nothing to do with it.  Understanding the reach of Israeli security and the straight talking government of Israel I tend to believe they have the proof that they claim. If it turns out to be fact Obama should leave in disgrace and go visit the money he sent to Iran and never show his face again, I’m sure Kerry’s relatives in Iran would welcome him with open arms.  Oh wait they already got our money they’d probably just arrest him and try to get us to ransom him back. (Fat Chance of that)

Stand with Israel!

Christmas wish

My Christmas Wish

Over the years I've written many Christmas messages, some in tragic times, others in good times. This year I find myself so grateful for so many things, yet there is a pall that hangs over our heads in the form of the War on Terror. I have lived long enough that I remember WWII, the rationing and the heartbreak of having my oldest brother Walter serving in the Silent Service, (Subs) in the Pacific Theatre. I can still see my next brother Rolland leaving for Korea in the 50's and the toll it took on my family. My family was the perfect American family, 3 sons all spaced the right amount of years to keep the military stocked with Lindberg's. During all these times even though we may have been separated by oceans my family stayed close and celebrated as if we were still together. We all could picture my Dad working on the Christmas tree, never satisfied, drilling holes and moving branches to make it the prettiest tree ever. My Mother baking her goodies and decorating for weeks. I can close my eyes today and still smell the cookies and pumpkin bread that filled the house during those times. Don't get me wrong, this was not a wealthy family, Mom and Dad both worked and struggled to make ends meet. It didn't take a lot of money to make a great Christmas back then. We got just as much or more satisfaction out of something homemade as a store bought gift. We, as I have said, were not wealthy but we were rich in so many ways. All through the holidays our house was like a fairy tale, Christmas music was playing, family and friends stopping in to savor mom's goodies and dad's homemade eggnog and countless hours of old stories and adventures of day's past. Getting the chance to play with cousins that we seldom got to see.

As I write these memories I am still able to see what Christmas was all about, sadly it has become so commercialized that kids today will never have those memories. Oh they will remember the gifts of some but not who gave them to them. They will play with them until they break or they tire of them and look for the next one. Will they remember taking part in the Sunday School Christmas pageant? Will they cherish their Christmas memories or will they simply just be another day in their lives? Yes we can blame all types of things and conditions for the change that has come over America & Christmas but none are really at fault. We have faced terror before when we knew people were actually trying to kill our loved ones, we have been broke before yet we knew the days would improve. The real culprit for the change in my mind is how we have learned to ignore God and the spiritual side of these holidays. So many of my memories of Christmas past involve the love and respect shown by all. My Christmas wish would be that we could reverse time for just one day to show the world, especially the children, what the true meaning of Christmas is.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a wonderful new year.
-Don Lindberg & family

75 years ago December 7th, 1941

75 years ago on December 7^th, 1941 the Japanese attacked military bases on the Island of Oahu.  We here mostly about Pearl Harbor but there was and still is a Marine base in Kaneohe that was hit also.  The next day they hit the Philippines and strafed Midway Island.  I had a friend now gone who was in the Marines on Midway that day and for a 19 year old kid it was quite an awakening to the world of war.  As the word spread across this nation, men filled the recruiting stations volunteering for all branches of the military.  We fortunately have had over the years many Hawaiian friends who were thrust into the conflict that day.  Their tales of the event are personal to them, they knew their lives would never be the same as they watched the onslaught and dodged friendly fire as our men fired on the attacking planes.  I wonder today as I watch the news of universities that are putting safe areas for students who are aghast at the election results if we could actually mount a counter attack should a similar event happen.  911 was a precursor to much grander plans the Islamic Radicals have in mind.  The fact that most of our leaders in this country have come from these same universities is rather frightening.  They called my father and my older brother’s generation the Greatest Generation with good cause.  These people lived through the Great Depression, WWI and the Great Dust Bowl only to find themselves locked in a war that threatened our very existence.  They did what the world thought was unimaginable they defeated not only the most well equipped and trained army in existence in Europe but the Japanese in the Pacific. 

Our prayers this day are for our country that we may find in this generation a spirit not yet evident that will lead the world with the strength and fortitude of our fathers.  As I witness the anarchy of the last few weeks and hear their claim that our country is a pariah in the world as they smash businesses and disrupt traffic I wonder what our fathers would say and do confronted with these cowardly malcontents with their hidden faces.  I wonder if any one of them would have the courage to storm the beach at Normandy or climb Mount Surabachi in the face of a dug in enemy.  I wouldn’t want to bet my life on it.  People have said that they’re just kids and they will grow out of it but it’s not kids teaching this Anti American rhetoric, it is adult professors and a very disgusting media that is promoting this diatribe.  We have grandchildren and great grandchildren who soon will be attending these universities and colleges and we pray we have given them the bases for an understanding that they will see through this façade that calls itself higher learning and use their time to actually learn our history and not be brain washed by the 60’s hippies who are now in charge of the Universities.