30/07/2024
I was born at a time when the greatness of this country was on full display, just a few years after the end of WWII. Yet we were embroiled in a conflict in Korea. In fact my dad was pulled away from his family and sent to support that conflict from US airfields in Japan. One of the countries we defeated to bring peace into the world. It was a much simpler time, and I was born shortly after he was deployed. He came home after an Armistice was sign over Korea and our lives normalized as his service in the Air Force moved us from Tennessee to Maine to California, to Texas, to New Mexico, back to Maine, then to San Antonio Texas where he finally retired. During all that I was growing up, seeing things and experiencing things many Americans really had no understanding of or knowledge about, and still today are not taught it properly. I attended integrated schools long before the 1965 Civil Rights act said it had to happen. I remember doing Nuclear Attack drills, diving under my school desk to simulated scenarios of Atomic bombs going off. I remember all of the Civil Rights marches going on in Selma Alabama, the forced integration of schools through out the South, the shooting of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Sr., the nation as it mourned for our fallen President, and the beginnings of another conflict in Indo-China we called Vietnam. I Remember the speeches of a man who called for change, and called for peaceful protests. I remember the power in his words as he spoke of a day that “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” I also remember the day a mad man took MLK's life because of the color of his skin. I also remember a country where we strived for greatness again by putting men into space and on the moon because of a vision by a young President to bring us all together for a greater purpose. A young President who had been a Naval officer, commanding a Torpedo Boat in the Pacific Theater of WWII. A President who actually was a real hero. I also remember how the nation mourned and we all felt the loss. A young President taken at a pivotal point when our Country went into another country hoping to save it from the spread of Communism. Vietnam began escalating into a conflict that would eventually take the lives of 58,000 + young men who were called by their country to serve once again. But that time was also the beginning of changes in our educational systems. Instead of focusing on teaching history, math, science, reading and writing, we began to get professors, and activist into the system of education whose world views were bent more on changing the country into a utopian society. And it all began to tear the country apart instead of pulling us together. Riots instead of peaceful protests, demanding we get out of Vietnam as the horrors of war were televised to the American public. The protests led to the deaths of students at Kent State in Ohio by the National Guard, seemingly the whole world began to become unhinged. One of the first mass shootings happened in Austin Texas on the campus of the University of Texas. Thursday August 1, 2024 will mark 58 years since Charles Joseph Whitman, shot and killed 14 people, and wounded another 33 people. Why? PTSD from his service in the Marines, or brain tumor? We will really never know or understand his reasons, because he too died that day. Vietnam still continued until 1973, and I still remember seeing and hearing about the Tet Offensive of 1968 that was the catalyst behind the escalation of the war, as well as the escalation of protests, which led to Kent State in 1970. I am rambling on telling you our country was going to hell in a hand basket, I've watched as socialism, and communism has spread into our system of government, and into the educational system. I've watched as we have forgotten the horrors of war, and people's value for life has been lessened by the change in our attitudes and societal values. Abortion became a method for birth control, mental health took a backseat in priorities, we no longer were taught how to resolve personal conflict, bullying became a big problem, drugs became an escape mechanism for so many who couldn't cope with life's struggles, we no longer were self-reliant and began to ask more and more from government to solve our problems. We have gotten soft, hard work to be successful is no longer encouraged, now it's demanding that we be given things just because we want them, now we have people who just go into stores and steal what they want and no one punishes them for it. We can't pray in school, we can't teach 10 simple values that ground us in right or wrong. The nuclear family has been destroyed. I want to ask you to look into why has all this happened? Look no further than in the proceedings of our own government. Communism’s 45 goals were read into the Congressional Record by Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr., (D-Florida), in 1963. These goals were gleaned from the testimony given to Congress by scholars and from the writings of current or former Communists. One of the fundamentals of it is socialism as a bridge to communism. What is really ironic is that it was a Democrat Congressman who sounded the alarm back then. It is now the Democrat Party that encourages the continuation of the deterioration of the country! All the while, telling us that the people who would like to bring back the things that made us a better and greater nation as a whole are the one wanting to destroy our Democracy. I want to know, why demonize the values of making America Great Again? Why tell half the country that you are radical and a threat to Democracy. What the "MAGA" crowd want is an honest government. Not one that can be turned against it's People or weaponized to destroy political opponents. Or used to silence the voices of people who disagree with policies. I want to leave you with one thought. In 2008 Barack Hussein Obama gave a speech in which he said, "“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Exactly what did he mean by that phrase? We have a system in place to change the Constitution, it's called the Amendment Process as outlined in the Constitution. What I want you to ask yourself is how has the Government been fundamentally changed from one of "Ask not what your Country can do for you, but what you can do for your Country? And Why? By whom? and for What purpose? Why are We the People not telling our government how we want it run, but they are telling us how we will act toward the government?
