It was wet and cold and
bleak the day Simone Robinson was buried.
Seven weeks earlier she was burned.
She became a soldier right
out of high school, enlisting in the Illinois Army National Guard. 3 years and 6 months later she left for
Afghanistan to help provide force protection for Camp Eggers and to be part of
the quick reaction force for the Kabul area.
Two months after that, she and four others were providing security for a
fuel truck just outside the base when a suicide-bomber
attacked. She was trapped between the
burning fuel and a wall.
She leaves her
two-year-old a Bronze Star.
The 33rd
Brigade is the largest deployment of Illinois Army National Guard since World
War 2 so it is inevitable that some will die.
If the primary mission were to keep them safe and secure, they would
never have left
The danger has always been
out there. Fred Pennix faced the evil on
And along the way, he saw
six sons serve in our army.
How can people on the
other side of the planet conceive of the very idea of teaching their children
to come here and steal our planes and crash them into our buildings? Who among us will confront that cultural
pathology at the source? Who can engage
such evil and push it back? Very few of
us.
This is an American, a
soldier, a sergeant-major, an infantryman.
You can read his chest or you can read his face. Either testifies to his life of physical
courage and selfless service.
And she is part of the
Totally brainwashed,
however.
Our Friends From Westboro
(OFFW) brought three children.
A gentleman across the
street exhibits the typical reaction of those who witness OFFW for the first
time – astonishment at their cheerful, deliberate
cruelty.
Brainwashing that leads to
mindless cruelty is what OFFW have in common with our enemy. This image is taken from a sing-along
video intended for Arab-Muslim children.
I was standing among the
children of OFFW a short distance from Simone’s funeral when I was overwhelmed
by a profound sadness. Not futility,
though. We will defend ourselves. And, as we have in
But the evil is not like a
fire that can be extinguished. It is a
culture that teaches new generations gleeful hatred. We can see it in the madrassas of
So we stood in the rain
clinging to our flags and our faith.
And to his continuing
credit, Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor, stood in the rain with us.
Little Nyzia has been
orphaned to this eternal struggle. Let
us pray that she will someday understand that her mother was part of the Army
of Goodness.
I had come to Simone’s
funeral by traveling south on 57 but I returned north by 294. I stopped at the
Thanks to God for Schuyler
Patch and Simone Robinson.
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