War Footing—World War II (Post 2)

ByDavid Hobbs

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Perhaps the greatest example of a nation being on war footing in modern times was the U.S, in World War II. We were viciously attacked which galvanized the nation. We knew the future of our nation depended on us winning this war against two formidable foes, Imperial Japan and Hitler’s Third Reich.

The nation went on war footing. The men marched off to war, the women marched into the factories to produce the weapons of war. Even the children went around with their wagons picking up metal to recycle into the war effort. Food was rationed; gasoline was rationed; whole cities near the coast were blacked out at night; people put their savings into war bonds to fund the war effort; Hollywood made short movie clips for theaters to play between their regular movies exhorting the people to buy war bonds and support the war effort.  There were shortages, there was suffering, there were sacrifices all around. But now we look back and call the World War II generation “The Greatest Generation.” They not only won a world war fought on 2 fronts, but they turned America into the greatest superpower on earth and caused the 20^th century to be called “The American Century.”

That was the last time this nation has been placed on a war footing, and, not coincidently, the last war America has decisively won.

I use that as an example of what a war footing is and what it can accomplish because I believe God is calling the church to a war footing now. It’s the only way we can overcome what is about to hit us.

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