Thanks for your wonderful report from San Diego and the Freedom Alliance Concert. About an hour and a half ago at around 7 a.m. here in Germany we got a call from my son in San Diego who also gave a teenager' s account of the concert.
We had sent Adam for his 16th birthday present to Oliver North's Military Leadership Academy which just happened to overlap the date of Sean Hannity's concert in San Diego. The kids in the leadership Academy were formed as a guard unit and escorted Shawn Hannity around the stadium and got to sit next to the VIP section. I had hoped that Oliver North's group would be taken to the Sean Hannity concert, although it was not part of the curriculum.
We had previously received two very brief cellphone accounts of his experiences with Oliver North's Military Leadership Academy which involved exposure to Navy SEALs, a visit to USS Boxer, rides in new and old fashioned landing crafts, and in general exposure to "at least one hero every day." They get the kids up early and start their day with PT and running. Evidently, the kids were issued three T-shirts for their PT drills to use over a six-day period. In reciting each of these adventures, we received the ultimate in depth report from a freshly minted 16-year-old when we asked his reaction to this new and exciting world of people and war machines: "Cool."
In addition to misplaced hopes to expand our son's language skills, we were partially motivated to send him to this Academy to offset the relentless left-wing worldview which he receives daily from the professors in his gymnasium which he attends here in Germany. In this later object, at least, we seem to have scored a bull's-eye. One can tell from the inflection in his voice when he says "cool" that both the North Military Leadership Academy experience and the Sean Hannity Freedom Alliance Concert were very cool indeed.
Other important news from these fronts includes the intelligence that he would like to extend the Military Leadership Academy but his T-shirts have gotten pretty "gross." Delighted that our son had evidently doubled his vocabulary, we were then overjoyed to learn that, "Jon Voight shook my hand." We marveled at this rhetorical eruption. Do you suppose this oral tsunami broke upon us because he is aware the Jon Voight is Angelina Jolie's father?
After this exposure to a few good men in the Marine Corps, and a few real good Americans who love their country, this teenager's diabolical father is shipping him off to backpack in the boonies around The Four Corners area with a bunch of vegan (no offense Doug) tree huggers. Hug! I wonder what new word they will add to his burgeoning vocabulary? Maybe he will learn the phrase, "my father is fair and balanced."
