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A Forgotten Day - December 7th, 1941
By Silentbrick I looked around at a variety of websites today, including many conservative ones and found nothing on Pearl Harbor. It seems even they are caught up in the endless 2 minute news cycle. So few today remember any of America's history, much less anything more than a decade ago. Now it's far more important that Al Franken groped more people and may or may not resign or end up in Fort Marcy Park. Or that a porn star killed herself after being bullied for not want to have sex with a male gay porn actor given he might have aids or other diseases. To many people today, they believe their lives are just so difficult and so important that they think little of those who came before them and how this nation became great. To them sacrifice is bothering to text someone that the plans you made to have dinner with them are off cause you changed your mind. Most of these kids today can't be bothered to have such courtesy. Their idea of charity is paying for whoever is behind them in line at Starbucks as opposed to actually having to do something for others. Now not everyone is so bad. Harvey proved that in Texas. I saw many of my neighbors donate time and goods to the emergency shelter set up at a local school because it was all that many of the flooded could reach. I recognize this but I also see how that selfishness creeps back in on the road when I turn on my blinker which is apparently a sign saying "Hurry up and dart into the space I was trying to move into. Or they blow past me in heavy rains and doing at least 85+ mph. But most importantly, I see that tweeting or posting something has become the norm. If they see someone being attacked on the street, they record video and post it rather than rushing forward to help. They leave injured people lying on the street or take a 'selfie' with them, rather than getting them help or at the very least calling 911. I have to wonder sometimes, if this country was invaded, would they even notice until someone sank a bayonet in their stomach? There are many dates and names and events in our history that people used to remember and be inspired by. "Give me Liberty or Death!" has been replaced by kneeling during our national anthem and standing for the country to our south that has effectively invaded us. Few of them even seem to understand what a nation is. Days like today I despair that we can avoid a long slow slide into destruction. Days like today I cringe at the prevailing attitude of morals being equated to bigotry. You have do wonder, do they even understand what morality is? Or how it forms the basis of civilized humans interacting with each other? You cannot have laws without morality, because as we see with the Clintons, they aren't really laws if they're not enforced. Despite all these moments of quiet despair, I will not change. I hold firm belief in our constitution being the basis of the greatest nation on Earth. Just because others will flaunt the law or the rules, I will not. Just because others stand aside and video, I will not. I will be the best citizen I can be, not for them, but for those who came before me and set the standard to follow. I hope I can raise my son to be the same, though it is a daunting task I fear. But I will try. I can do nothing else but try, because I refuse to become one of them. Remember Pearl Harbor. Posted by: Silentbrick 2017-12-08 |
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