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Rightful Aspirations Rightful Aspirations Rightful Aspirations Lt. Col. David Sonnier GP Goretti Publications Dozenal numeration is a system of thinking of numbers in twelves, rather than tens. Twelve is much more versatile, having four even divisors—2, 3, 4, and 6—as opposed to only two for ten. This means that such hatefulness as 1 1 “0.333. ” for 3 and “0.1666. ” for 6 are things of the past, replaced by easy “0;4” (four twelfths) and “0;2” (two twelfths). In dozenal, counting goes “one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, elv, dozen; dozen one, dozen two, dozen three, dozen four, dozen five, dozen six, dozen seven, dozen eight, dozen nine, dozen ten, dozen elv, two dozen, two dozen one. ” It’s written as such: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, X, E, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1X, 1E, 20, 21. Dozenal counting is at once much more efficient and much easier than decimal counting, and takes only a little bit of time to get used to. Further information can be had from the dozenal societies (http://www.dozenal.org), as well as in many other places on the Internet. © 2007 David L. Sonnier. All rights reserved. Version 2.0. The cameoflage cover pattern is a public domain image by Summer Woods. This document may be copied and distributed freely, provided that it is done in its entirety, including this copyright page, and is not modified in any way. Goretti Publications http://gorpub.freeshell.org [email protected] Contents Acknowledgements . vii 1 Je ne propose rien; j’expose 1 1 From De Oppresso Liber to UNIX . 3 2 And Then it Happened. E 3 The Great Awakening . 13 4 Exactly What Did Happen? . 19 5 The Second Vatican Council . 23 6 Girls Will Be Boys — or — From UNIX to Eunuchs . 29 7 Montgomery, Alabama . 35 8 Fort Bragg, North Carolina . 3E 9 The Society of Saint Pius X . 65 X The General’s Exec . 77 E De Oppresso Liber . 83 10 Whither NATO?: Brussels, Belgium, June 15, 1998 . 91 11 Quo Vadis? . 95 12 The Big Lie . X1 13 Letters Across the Atlantic . X9 14 Finally! . E5 15 The US Army vs. The Catholic Church . E7 16 Meet the Press . 105 17 Excuses, Excuses . 10E 18 Farewell Letter . 123 19 Introíbo ad altáre Dei . 125 v vi Contents 2 Je n’expose rien; je propose. 127 1X A Modest Proposal for an Immodest Era . 129 Appendices A Ten Years of the Motu Proprio “Ecclesia Dei” . 139 B Letter from “Tim” to the Chaplains at Fort Bragg . 143 Acknowledgements ne of my professors at West Point commented that it takes a period of at least five years after a divorce to fully understand what O went wrong. When I asked him why, he said that people are not able to see events clearly because of human nature — their emotions can cloud their reasoning. With that thought in mind, I’ve held publication of this saga for five years to ensure that my emotions did not cloud my narration of the events leading to my departure from an Army I loved in 2001. The events were all well documented, with meeting notes, letters I’ve kept on file, and hard copies of e-mail I’ve retained. This book has been a collective effort, and my role in it has only been to string the sequence of events together into somewhat readable form. My apologies for the numerous military acronyms, which the civilian reader may find confusing, but it is intended for the military audience — particularly Catholics serving in the military — so that they can know and understand that they are being deprived of their heritage. I am most grateful to a number of individuals who must remain anonymous, either because I was unable to contact them to obtain permission to use their real names, or for other reasons. I am very grateful to the Donnelly family, Lt. Cleary, Tim, and LTC Kleinfeld; perhaps their real names will be used in a future version. We are most grateful to Paul Belien and Alexandra Colen for the inspiring and most courageous example they’ve been to us and to so many other people. We’re also grateful to the many French and Belgian families we met along the way, most notably the Brions. We are forever grateful to the many priests who helped us: Fr. Gerald Duroisin, Msgr. Edward Spiers, Fr. William Hudson, Fr. Domingos Pereira, Fr. Hervé Hygonnet, Fr. Prasad Marneni, Fr. Josef Bisig, Fr. Arnaud Devillers, Fr. Marc-Antoine Dor, Fr. Larry Jensen, Fr. Charles Troncale, Fr. James vii viii Acknowledgements Jackson, Bishop Joseph L. Howze, and Msgr. Gilles Wach. I am most grateful to those who helped in the editing for both readability and content: Dr. Ronda Chervin, Dr. Joseph Bonometti and his lovely wife Peggy, Anne Kootz, and my old friend John Labrucherie who I haven’t seen in years. Additional thanks to those who reminded me of the necessity and urgency of getting this into print: Charles Coulomb, Michael Davies† and even Zach Mobley. All servicemen should be forever grateful to Brig. General Earnie Callender USAF, for setting an uncommonly good example for general officers to follow. We have more admiration and gratitude for him than he will ever know. I am personally grateful to Chuck Wilson and the Saint Joseph Foundation for the peace of mind they gave me after a sleepless night resulting from a bogus threat of “excommunication.” Had they not been there, who knows what may have resulted? A mad Green Beret on a rampage with guns and grenades? I am also particularly grateful to Fred Haehnel for working to build and expand Una Voce America at a time at which I needed the help this organization could provide by putting me in touch with the right people — Michael Davies and Chuck Wilson, for example. Thanks to Dr. Austin Welsh for throwing me a life preserver at the end of my military career, and to my colleagues at Lyon College for their support as I’ve worked on this book. I am even grateful to the priests, mostly military chaplains, who treated us with disdain and disrespect and even took the time to express their sentiments in writing. Had they not done so, I would have been accused of exaggerating because it is certainly not easy to believe that priests would behave in the manner described herein. Again, we can see that even those who intend to thwart God’s will end up contributing to His Greater Glory unwittingly. Finally, I am forever grateful to Lorri for so thoroughly rejecting the modern notions of motherhood and feminism in favor of the Catholic Faith, and for John David, William, Clair, Louis, Annie, Thomas and Anthony for so firmly embracing the traditional Catholic Faith we’ve strived so hard to pass on to them. May they always do so. Part 1 Je ne propose rien; j’expose 1 Chapter 1 From De Oppresso Liber to UNIX General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! President Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, June 12, 1987, in a speech that was delivered to the people of West Berlin, yet it was also audible on the East side of the Berlin wall. he November 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the consequential end of the Cold War caught me by surprise. I thought I would T be engaged in this monumental Cold War effort for the rest of my life. Suddenly it was over. Just like that. And there had been no warning that the end was in sight. just, from one day to the next, German kids were climbing on the once formidable wall, drinking wine, singing, laughing, mocking the ridiculous and absurd scenario that had existed for the last half of the twentieth Century. Now what? What’s a Cold Warrior to do? I had been commissioned at West Point on 27 May 1981. Even at the time of my graduation I never believed that I would take great interest in being a soldier. Four years at West Point had given me the knowledge I would need as an officer, but, I must admit, the experience did not leave me with enough desire to commit twenty years to the Army. I took my initial assignment with the 7th Infantry Division at Fort Ord, California, assuming I would spend the mandatory five years in the Army and then find a job working as an electrical engineer somewhere in the area — perhaps Silicon Valley. I had 3 4 From De Oppresso Liber to UNIX more interest in eventually going to work in industry as an electrical engineer than in being an Infantry officer. Initially I just went through the motions at the Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. Then somewhere during my time going through the Infantry training at Fort Benning something clicked. It all came together. I found myself actually enjoying the rugged outdoor life, the weapons ranges, the long road marches. I discovered my agility at navigating with a map and compass, with tactical thinking, and mission planning. I began to actually enjoy being a soldier and I began to think like a soldier. As a Southerner, I was unafraid of snakes, insects, and heat. As a competitive swimmer, I was unfazed by the physical requirements.
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