Posted on 08/01/2018 4:55:59 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
So powerful to watch POWs returning home. History...
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Watching now on FOX. Its so moving
I’ll watch on You Tube tonite.
Oh, there is nothing like coming home! God bless the fallen heroes.
Me too,Checked out the others CNN MSNBC = MANAFORT
I am watching. I lost it. I cry and I have no shame in that. Words fail but thank you President Trump and Administration!
This is a most special occasion, but I wish civic rituals likes these were more of a mainstream part of public consciousness. Our country needs it.
“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”
Such a moving ceremony. Thank you President Trump!
That was awesome
It does. Years ago this would be carried on all the networks. We dont even teach American History or Civics anymore.
An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that, too, through the mid-sixties.
But now, we're about to enter the nineties, and some things have changed. Younger parents aren't sure that an unambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style. Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom-freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].
So, we've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important-why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant. You know, 4 years ago on the 40th anniversary of D-day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father, who'd fought on Omaha Beach. Her name was Lisa Zanatta Henn, and she said, "we will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did." Well, let's help her keep her word. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let's start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.
“...I lost it. I cry and I have no shame in that. Words fail but thank you President Trump and Administration!...”
You’re not alone. I lost it as well.
If President Trump never did another thing, this event alone would warrant the biggest thank you a nation could provide. Thank you, President Trump.
What a special man he was.
Why cant we require American History and Civics be taught in middle school and high school? They take our tax money, the least they could do is teach children what a precious gift they have been given. A gift purchased by the blood of patriots.
Why cant we require American History and Civics be taught in middle school and high school?
I don’t think it’s necessarily an evil plot, although it could be, but just simply the passage of time. In the 50s, I didn’t learn as much about the Civil War as my dad did the the 30s when it was still (just barely) a part of living memory. The Viet Nam war will be the next to disappear.
The first song the Band Played:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJFhTb1gi6Y
Lyrics
Going home, going home
I’m just going home
Quiet light, some still day
I’m just going home
It’s not far, just close by
Through an open door
Work all done, care laid by
Going to fear no more
Mother’s there expecting me
Father’s waiting, too
Lots of folk gathered there
All the friends I knew
All the friends I knew
I’m going home
Nothing’s lost, all’s gain
No more fret nor pain
No more stumbling on the way
No more longing for the day
Going to roam no more
Morning star lights the way
Restless dream all done
Shadows gone, break of day
Real life begun
There’s no break, there’s no end
Just a living on
Wide awake with a smile
Going on and on
Going home, going home I’m just going home
It’s not far, just close by
Through an open door
I am going home
I’m just going home Going home, going home
This is a big deal to me. The returning Men are Men that my father and the Men of The American Graves Registraion Service - MOS 92M - failed to retrieve during the retreat of Nov - Dec 1950.
Listen to the song as you watch. Your monitor will get blurry.
They also played Hymn to the Fallen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKU3b7rnvlQ
Many Korean War veterans were also WW II veterans. Play the following to anyone who lost someone in WWII and they’ll recognize it and probably leave the room in tears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMcYDasvbqI
That was so moving. Thank you for the link.
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