It seems as a dream now, but I recall being rewarded for my art work depicting our beloved “Bill of Rights” in the late 1960’s. It was a competition amongst Los Angeles and Orange County High School Art students. Such a “competition” would be ludicrous today, what with the total disregard for our laws, our borders and our Constitution.
Loyalty for country has gone away. The tragedies of the unwisely begun and unwisely fought Vietnam war probably had a lot to do with the start of the divorce. Gore arrived on TV screens with little obvious gain to show for it, and people began to wonder. Such doubt could have been weathered by a robust faith in God, but that was getting weak too.