Hi, this is Hank Hanegraff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast with another Hank unplugged short.

Today is Veterans Day, a day in which we remember those who sacrificed on behalf of our nation, a day in which we honor those who served and those who died in all of America's wars.

Those who served and died in defense of our country.

It's worth giving consideration to, particularly as we see the decline of our country.

I read a poll, or at least about a poll, in a book titled The Dying Citizen by Victor

Davis Hanson, who was an Annenberg Public Policy Center poll, which revealed the fact

that 37 percent could not name a single right protected by the First Amendment, that only 25

percent could name all three branches of government.

50% had no idea who fought in World War II, and 12% thought Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded troops in the Civil War.

Perhaps this kind of encroaching ignorance in our country helps to explain why protesters torch statues of World War to General William C. Lee, quite obviously confusing his memorial with that of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

And of course, there is this pervasive contention that the U.S. is irreversibly flawed.

And that has become justification for unwillingness to learn about America's history

and customs, an unwillingness to celebrate Veterans Day.

We must ever remember that citizenship is not indestructible.

As Hanson has well said, the more it includes everyone, the less it can protect anyone.

We're fast becoming a nation of residence as opposed to citizens.

As a result of that, we are fast losing enthusiasm for those who have preserved our freedom. As I say so often, it's one thing

to curse the darkness. It is another to build a lighthouse in the midst of the gathering storm.

Part of that process is educating people to the incredible privileges that we have been given

to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Thanks for tuning in.