Lee Edwards, 1932-2024

Lee Edwards, who died last week at the age of 92, was right from the beginning. When Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary in 1956, crushing an anti-Communist rebellion, Lee was serving his country as a U.S. Army officer in West Germany. He had no trouble distinguishing the good guys from the bad guys. Communism was the enemy. The Soviet Union smothered individual freedom, warred against the family, and recognized no higher power. Its vast armies and growing nuclear arsenal menaced America. If the Communists won—if their revolution spread throughout the world, leaving nothing behind but misery and death—then the last best hope of Earth would vanish. Containment was not enough. Only victory over communism would guarantee the future of freedom and traditional ways of life. Thus, when he left the Army, Lee enlisted in the growing ranks of a civilian force devoted to protecting the American experiment from threats foreign and domestic: the conservative movement.

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