Posted on 03/26/2011 11:23:05 PM PDT by Nachum
Sixty years ago in February I came to the United States. I was classified as a "displaced person" from World War II with no identity or knowledge of when, where or to whom I was born, an orphan who had miraculously survived on the streets of a war ravaged city somewhere in central Europe. On that bitterly cold overcast morning as I stood, alone at the railing of a ship, staring at the iconic image of the Statue of Liberty, I found myself arriving in a strange country itself coming face to face with a new and unwelcome role as the foremost nation on earth about to embark on being the most dominate economic and military power in modern history.
In 1951 the United States in addition to being the long established beacon of individual freedom for the oppressed around the planet and still trying to shake the memory and adversity of the Great Depression and World War II, had, by default, assumed the mantle of leader of the free world. The forty-two year military and geo-political stalemate with America's one-time ally in the War, the Soviet Union, was in its fourth year. The beginning stage of the greatest economic expansion in the annals of man was underway. There were still vestiges of the nations troubled past as 15% of the population still suffered from institutional discrimination based solely on skin color. Yet optimism regarding the future was palpable.
Not having had the opportunity to experience a childhood and unable to escape the events of the past, I came to this country already old beyond my years and as a consequence I was never able to be fully absorbed into the mainstream of the culture.
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>> Yes, America can be saved. Question is, are there enough of us to put up the fight to do it?
Indeed, there are more today than when the Country overcame its first test.
When asking whether or not “America can be saved?” do we mean the current government? Do we mean the terra firma? Do we mean the people? Do we mean the ideal of self-government as expressed in our culture over the last 200+ years? Because the answers are probably different for each of those questions.
The media must be taken down first...
The question is not “can we”...
It is imperative that “We Do!!!”
If anyone believes we are done after November 2010, I have some land in Louisiana I wanna sell ya real cheap...
If it takes us the rest of our lives to get this back under control, and have the right people with the right concept of being a principled representative (I know a dream world), then maybe things will be better for all of us, including the die-hard liberal progressives...
We need to keep a few of those around for a reminder to what we almost lost to...
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