PATRIOTIC GAMES

Charles Lindbergh was the most popular and respected man in America. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the President that lifted America out of its most debilitating depression in our country’s history.

They were also the leaders that divided our country.

Charles “Lucky Lindy” Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, epitomized the vitality and enthusiasm of ” Jazz Age” America of the 1920’s. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was the “New Deal” President that bent rules to lift unemployment blighted 1930’s America out of a severe economic depression.

Now in the late 1930’s another menace has infected the world, the rise of fascist Nazi Germany and its virulent leader Adolph Hitler. Hitler is intent on conquering and subjugating all of Europe.

FDR wants to supply military aid to Great Britain, a democracy under siege, to help combat the Nazi menace that is brutally sweeping through Europe.

Lindbergh has a huge loyal following. He blames the Jews, FDR and the British for supporting and pushing America into the “European” war.

Lindbergh’s attack on the Jewish people leads to a dangerous rise in antisemitism in America and Internationally.

Lindbergh, as leader of “America First”, an isolationist movement, believes that America should remain neutral. He concludes that our geographic distance and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are our natural protections.

After visiting Germany and meeting with their leaders on several occasions, Lindbergh believes Hitler’s promises of his “limit on his conquests”.

Lindbergh does not want American lives lost as it happened in World War 1. Roosevelt believes that Hitler’s promises are convenient lies. America must defend itself and its allies against the inevitable war.

The Americans are divided into two camps, the Isolationists, and the Interventionists! It has become family member against family member, neighbor against neighbor! Roosevelt, the interventionist, and Lindbergh the isolationist is in an intense battle for the soul and future of our American democracy.

Our country was tested then as it is now.