Hi, Fuzzy! : )
I am more than aware of the mettle of those who answer the call! My son spent 4 years in the Army; his son just completed in October 4 1/2 years in the Air Force, under General Franks in Tampa.
What is disturbing is the seeming prevalence of those warped in higher insttutions of learning with socialist leanings who now are the teachers affecting the minds of little ones today.
The waves of demonstrators massing all over America are the first ones of many; more and more similar-thinking young adults are being cranked out daily.
Even worse, they are flooding the media at every level; again reaching the eyes and ears of every age, including the children parked in front of television sets as a babysitting device to keep them quiet. Yeah - Tom Daschle and Jerry Springer right there in the living room to show them how to live right.
The messages to younger minds are twisted in so many areas; often contrary to the teachings at home - quelling patriotism - rewriting history - eradicating religion in any form from school - who knows what sex lessons? - overemphasis on 'prejudice,' creating much more of it.....
It no longer is ABC's and Apple Pie - The Pledge of Allegiance and God Bless America as the setting for their days.
It has become 'how to be tolerant of every single 'view' morally '- 'politically correct' - 'understand' that which a parent might not want them to yet, depending upon the mental and emotional level of THEIR child - how to use, and to be handed, condoms, for example.
Used to be wash your hands before you eat lunch - now it is how to avoid STD's and AIDS and pregnancy.
They too often manage to convey "If you don't like it, protest and be as obnoxious as you can," allowed;
A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E the Spelling Word of the Day.
'Get in someone's face to make your point before they get in yours'
instead of 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.'
Those kinds of things do trouble me, with many parents unaware of the whole scope of school influence, or thinking it all is just fine.
Those who disagree are too often in the minority and overruled when they challenge The System.
My pride in those who follow in the footsteps of those who were around during World WarII is enormous, and I can't believe you think otherwise!
My outrage is aimed entirely at those who undermine them.
I am a Survivor of the Nam Era, remember - one of those nasty military wives whose husband was a 'baby killer.'
I bear the scars to prove it.
The "Peace because I cannot face a less than peaceful environment for myself types" who float through life as if they ever earned the right to 'speak/parrot' the lofty idea of Peace just by breathing in and out with regularity disgust me.
Too many worthwhile human beings have died to ensure that right to speak. We cannot allow the Anti-War element to prevail over the Good Guys, and here at Free Republic, our aim is to counter their influence. Peaceably, but emphatically.
Hi, Fuzzy! : )
The Clinton 90s were much like the Roaring 20s, built on a national ethos personnified by that vile man and his mob of corrupt lawyers. It was about self-indulgence, hedonism, hubris, pagan secular cults, fraud, greed, and prevailing amorality - all enabled by a citizenry numb to their duty, to preserve an ethical and lawful government. "My 401K is rocking thank you BEA Systems and JDS Uniphase whatever you guys do. Yeah, Clinton's a lying scumbag and he's the Prez but he apologized to all the Africans and American blacks and women and gays and Europeans for the stuff we did to them so that I get to be so rich, and the GOP is against the old folks and the poor. My new Lexus is gonna be here on Tuesday - and I missed the kids' teachers conference and their school play but I'll buy them something and they'll get over it!"
The aging baby boomer Marxists, who entered our media, governmental, legal and educational institutions after their anti-American education during VietNam protests ... are at the apex of their power right now. They are 53-60 years old. They will never be more entrenched and influential than this current era. And ... they are losing. Badly.
We have a man of wisdom, character and prayer leading our country. Our military institution has never demonstrated its strength, skill and humanity in such a open and righteous way. We are chipping away at the hideous inhumanity of abortion. The pimps of racist divisiveness are losing on issues of school choice, entitlement slavery and racial quotas. The thuggish civil service unions are losing members and jobs. The Democrats have never been so politically powerless and in disarray. The leftist media has never been so disrespected and ignored. We have never had such a re-engineering of our national security resources, home and abroad.
I'm bullish on America. We have a leader who had the courage and duty to an American destiny to do the difficult thing, against an incomprehensible organized campaign of opposition and villification ... because it was the right thing to do for the security of Americans, it was the only thing to do to ensure the safety and lives of people from all the World, and it demonstrates our gratefulness to God's blessing to us, and our duty to help crerate a life from terror and slavery for those who cannot fend for themselves.
George W. Bush took on that duty. 80% of Americans support our mission. 80% of Americans now understand the evil that confronts us. When citizens of this country become focused and resolute on big issues of life and death and American sacrifice by our youngest and brightest, the Phil Donahues, Madonnas, Tom Dascheles, chanting Peaceniks, Academy Award shows, feminist sideshows at beloved Golf Tournaments, and legal challenges to public prayers for our soldiers in harms way, American flag displays and unauthorized yellow ribboning of community property become clearly what they are: soulless people and groups who insult the moment, demonstrate their cynical agendas, and are to be no longer supported or empowered.
I see it happening, LadyX. Bush has the proxy of American people as a leader who can be trusted, who is wise, and who will conduct this nations business with honest duty, skill, measured contemplation and in a humane and Christian way. Our military, churches, honest and pro American media and most importantly - our most revered and entrusted Office of the President of The United States - are back in our citizen use. People care about America again - every time they see another of these young men and women who will do their duty whatever it requires, wherever it takes them, however long it lasts. But ... they really want to get back home. That's compelling stuff, for those who have a sense of priority and a grateful soul.
On the American Bandstand rate-a-nation meter, I give this nation and our prospects a 98 ... we've got a really great beat, we're fun and groovy and easy to dance to and the kids really seem to dig us - even though those Paleo squares and Euro snobs don't seem to get it. The two point deduction are for anyone who uses the word "justice" in place of "opportunity".
As that Iraqi yelled so beautifully to our liberating soldiers in an inspired cry of freedom and long tested truth: "Democracy! Whiskey! And Sexy!" That's the exact order of stops on the freedom train that always works for me! ;^)