[OneWingedShark]

As an old retired ARMY VET I can say that We didn’t wear our patriotism on our sleeves nor on our lapels — we LIVED it!
That was MY America—and it is the America I miss sorely.

I agree with that. Of course, if I had been wiser I would have recognized our current position from a few of the reamings I got during Basic Training, to wit: you don't have any Constitutional rights! You lost them when you signed up for the Army!

Such institutionalized disrespect of the object you are sworn to uphold cannot lead to good; and indeed that mentality has spread into the whole of the federal government… the same FedGov that keeps asserting that everyone and everything is under its jurisdiction.

[EXCH54FE]

” I got during Basic Training, to wit: “you don’t have any Constitutional rights! You lost them when you signed up for the Army!”

All I remember from Basic Training is “Drop and give me 10” and “We don’t walk we Run” seems like it was all up hill going and up hill getting back.

You do have a point and I think a Smaller Government would help. Get rid of the IRS, DHS, and most of the three letter
departments.