And to excerpt it, driving traffic to where you get paid for it.
Yep. Seems legit.
Where is the rest of the article?
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David A. Smith
Dr. David A. Smith is a senior lecturer in American history at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He received his undergraduate degree from what is now Texas State University in San Marcos, and his Ph.D. in modern American history from the University of Missouri in
the year 2000.
In addition to being the author of Money for Art: The Tangled Web of Art and Politics in American Democracy, his columns on art, culture and politics have appeared in the Weekly Standard, the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman, and the Waco Tribune-Herald. He has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, the Mars Hill Audio Journal, The Jim Bohannon Show, and numerous other national and regional radio shows.
An avid public speaker, Smith has spoken to civic organizations ranging from art galleries to the Rotary Club, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the Fort Worth World Affairs Council, and the Audie Murphy Museum. He serves on the board of directors of the Waco Cultural Arts Fest, and his book reviews have appeared in outlets from the Washington Times to the Naval War College Review.
He has won awards for his teaching at Baylor and at the University of Missouri.
He and his wife have two children and live in Woodway, Texas.
Americans WANT to remember ... they just can't
In previous years, Americans were a tactile people
We were capable of remembering such things like ... the noise of a boyhood fight ... the smell of sweat and blood ... the touch of a romantic hand ... the sight of beauty in nature ... all of which, for a greater part, no longer exist in the average American's ken
Electronics and technology coupled with the fast paced assault on our senses with sex and noise pretty much occupies people's minds
We are what we eat and we've been force fed pablum of all sorts that hinder and stop logical thinking and practical application
American's are either busy working or busy complaining ... very few are digging life and trying to explain it o0r pass it on to others .... IF others would stop long enough to listen
The ONLY listeners in America are the people that attend a church that has a preacher that speaks eloquently and long enough to hold interest and provide some additional or advancement in the thought processes of the listeners
And THOSE kinds of churches and preachers are being pushed aside for the mega churches and TV phoneys
Americans have had a large portion of their human compassion atrophy from non-use .... movie magic does all of that FOR them and concludes for them as well
We are conditioned to be judgemental on a major scale (Survivor, Am got talent, the voice, Dance w/stars etc., etc) .. and then loudly proclaim we OTHER Americans should not be judgemental
Americans CAN'T remember our fallen because fallen no longer means anything to them and they can not envision a bloody, smelly battlfield nor hear the cries of "Mama" ... and if they DID ... they'd block it out for the latest scasndal or sensational news byte
PS ... I'm a 67 year old vet and I get angrier each Memorial Day and 4th of July