Thank you for the history lesson, I loved reading it. To Vaclav Havel, and all those who sacrificed (including those who sacrificed their lives and who’s stories will never be told in this lifetime), may we all give thanks by remembering and honoring their sacrifices lest we fail to learn from and repeat history (which of course we are living now). I can’t help but notice while reading this, that the absence of a belief system in a life after death with a moral code that supercedes the values of a people who only see life as “cradle to grave” and nothing more, makes those people as vulnerable to evil (in whatever form it takes, be it Islamist terrorism, Nazism, Communism, or whatever) as sheep being led to slaughter… which explains their constant efforts to purge Christ and Christianity from our lives… they know the power of good is stronger than evil, that’s their greatest fear… evil is a weak, but incessant enemy that thrives through never-ending insidious small victories in each individual’s life… and thus personal responsibility is the cure… without God, without faith, without liberation as defined in our Declaration of Independence that only comes from God and can never be taken from us… then of course fear of loss must fill the void, and evil rules… Victor Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning”, another must read along the same heroic line as this story of Vaclav Havel. Thank you again for sharing this article, it is a tremendous read.
