Think of it! Almost three times the number of people were slain in one hundred minutes last month than were lost in total at Pearl Harbor. Yet, in that bygone period, the sneak attack instantly galvanized the entire nation behind our government with civic duty raised far above civil rights. Every vestige of divisive protest and self interest for this or that end vanished in an instant on that Sunday morning. The nation was unified and focused to win over evil at any cost...... I remember.
Yet now various organizations freely implement their right to march and protest any and all of our government’s defensive actions, all the while external evil masking as a religion has so obviously set out to destroy us. And where is common sense and common decency so soon projected before the families of these thousands of murdered American innocents? What, if anything, concerning civil duty and obligations essential to civil rights are being taught in our schools?
Since the Vietnam war, there has been an increasing emphasis on civil rights and civil liberties by many organizations. All are well financed and amply supplied with lawyers ready to feed at the trough while defeating any injustice.. real, contrived, or imagined.
The outward support of most Americans toward their government in this unfolding war is a joy to behold. Yet something seems amiss insofar as integrating, for the young in particular, an understanding of why civic obligations and duties are an essential element and precursor to lasting civil rights in our American equation.
Basking Ridge and perhaps America may never be the same.