It was no conspiracy! MACARTHUR & EISENHOWER

It was no conspiracy!
MACARTHUR & EISENHOWER
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
September 13, 2010

Today, I am among the mere handful of those few still living veterans of a certain past military service, who were part of what some people today would call, mistakenly, "a conspiracy." Today, we few represent that handful of those veterans who, today, had lived through that awful morning when the news had come, that our greatly beloved President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died. Ours is simply the patriotism of those, among us at that time, who had reacted with a certain, special devotion to that sense of patriotic mission to which we had been called during what was, still then, the ongoing great, long war.
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That was, at first, no more than the silent oath to which I committed myself when the news of President Roosevelt's death reached the few of us who would be gathered that evening in a military encampment at Kanchrapara in Bengal, India. When we met quietly in the dusk of that evening, there, I replied to that group of fellow-soldiers who came to me to ask their question. My words from that past are carved in memory still today: "We have been led, until now, by a great President, who has now died. The new President is a little man, and, I am afraid for our country, now." One remembers things like that.

The words I spoke in the quiet of that evening, were to return to become my modest, continuing, silent, personal commitment for the ensuing three decades of my life. Then, later, one day, another veteran touched my memories. After that, there was no need to ask "Why;" the silenced trumpet had called again. I was to experience, now, a renewed old, and prolonged warfare, like ghosts from the same, old, opposing sides.

Today, I, for one, am still standing. Let my thought tonight seem to touch your shoulder, "patriot," as someone, long ago, had seemed to touch my own. There was no "conspiracy" beyond doing one's duty, even still today, when a silent trumpet calls those few, old, soldiers who never really die.

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