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Prologue

“My fellow Americans. This is only the third time that I have spoken to you from this office. In one instance it was to address a great triumph for our nation, and in the other a terrible tragedy. This time, it is different. This time I come to you to speak on a tragedy not just for this nation, but for all nations. We are under attack. On every continent, the godless armies of communism are now on the march. Decades of peace are at an end and all efforts, including my own, to maintain that peace have failed. No amount of diplomacy or good faith could overcome the simple, wretched reality that the leadership of the communist world seek to remake the world. And as that world plunges into the abyss of a new world war, one hundred years after the beginning of the first, we Americans face only one remaining option.

We must fight.

Not just for ourselves and the freedoms to which God entitles us, but for all people in all nations. The people of the communist states are not our enemies. They are slaves to a cruel and wicked system from which the free world, like Moses, will liberate them. And though the darkness of war may once again spread across the lands of God’s Earth, I beseech you all to have faith. Faith that this war, like all wars, will end and that life will continue. It is no secret that we face a danger unmatched in our history. Total annihilation threatens us. But it will take more than that to drive the United States away from doing what is right. As I speak, a thousand megatons are surely targeted on this building but I will remain no matter what the darkness brings.

For the third time in a century, the New World must come to the rescue of the Old. And when it is all over, when freedom reigns upon all the Earth, we will look upon ourselves and proudly say that even when faced with the most terrible of storms we still sailed forward. And we did it because it was right.”


- Address by U.S. President Joseph Wright. May 10th, 2014.

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