Sins of the U.S. Empire Part 1
An Introduction
Introduction
I grew up in the U.S. south, my family other than a few “black sheep” in the family were very conservative Christians, always voting for the republican candidate regardless of that candidate’s particular policies. They also were and still are devout attendees of Church every Sunday morning, and most Sunday evenings as well as frequently attending Wednesday nights. Most of the time while growing up I attended VBS (Vacation Bible School) during summers, and accepted Christ into my heart a number of times in case the previous ones didn’t count due to me being too young etc.
I had a few family members that had served in the military, the most influential on me was my maternal grandfather who had served in the Pacific during WW2. He spent many evenings watching John Wayne movies, among others of the Western or WW2 era genre, and was a stand-in father figure to me for much of my childhood. He never glorified anything that happened to him during the war, in fact he barely mentioned anything about it. He also never promoted military service to me. I do know that he marched into Japan under MacArthur after the bombs were dropped, so I suspect he may have seen or done some things that haunted him. (Evidently due to the altitude of the detonations very little residual radiation was left behind, although…
