As I write this article today, I look back at my childhood and remember the freedoms I had. Freedoms and rules set by my father and mother were all I needed. I was to be home when the street lights turned on, dinner was always 6:30 sharp and breakfast was on the table at 7 AM. I was to be on time to school, change out of my school clothes when I arrived home, do my homework, and keep my room clean. Well, my room was never clean but I managed to do the other things. Following these rules left me with play time at my best friend's house, an allowance of 50 cents a week, and a place to live in a loving home.
My father was a World War II vet, hailed from the U.S.S. Cache, an oiler in the South Pacific, and after being torpedoed, he and his crippled ship and mates arrived in Hawaii for two weeks of temporary repairs and then were sent back into battle. The Greatest Generation was just that; knowing that in order to have freedom one must fight for that freedom for themselves and their families and country. The Greatest Generation didn't just live in the U.S. They lived in Canada and England and all the countries fighting as a galvanized force to save their own freedom.
The Second World War was the last war fought in which there was an official surrender, peace prevailed for a while, and our military came home labeled as heroes. After that war, too many who served their country on foreign soil were labeled murderers and shunned by our "citizens" who felt they knew better, most never having served in a time of war, and who thought all disagreements could be settled with words. Those "citizens" were happy to take the freedoms fought for in the past and ram them down our throats with their Freedom of Speech, protesting for transgender bathrooms, the need to remove guns from everyone except criminals and their right to murder babies in the womb and sometimes out. Even aliens invited here without the support of We the People have protested in support of Sharia Law. Our own citizens have protested that we should remove or drastically limit our rights that our Forefathers so thoughtfully scribed based on their own experiences. Think Freedom of Speech and The Right to Bear Arms.
Politicians stepped to the fore, listening to the vocal minority instead of the silent working majority, the people who paid the taxes and didn't have the opportunity to make their opinions known because they were at work. The squeaky wheel getting the oil doesn't necessarily mean it should be paid attention to when the squeak is coming from paid protesters or professional dole recipients, instead of a piece of equipment. It's the families working their heart out to get ahead, giving their children a solid home and a good education who need to be heard, the people who know what "the American Dream" really is. Ashton Kutcher said it best when he stated at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards, “I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work," unless, of course, you are applying to get Welfare, food stamps and housing. Then it's a snap.
Former President Reagan once said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
I suggest to my readers that we are very close to our sunset years and unless we want to lose our freedoms, we now must be aware of the internal war of our government against us, as they imply by their every action that we are stupid, a danger to ourselves, and can be better cared for by our government through free insurance, free food, and an open border. Beware when your government indicates free things are more important than FREEDOM. Just like a stock market crash, it takes a lot longer to climb out of the crater than it did to fall into it. And if we wait too long and don't stand strong for our God Given and Constitutional rights, there won't be any help left at the top to save us.
My father was a World War II vet, hailed from the U.S.S. Cache, an oiler in the South Pacific, and after being torpedoed, he and his crippled ship and mates arrived in Hawaii for two weeks of temporary repairs and then were sent back into battle. The Greatest Generation was just that; knowing that in order to have freedom one must fight for that freedom for themselves and their families and country. The Greatest Generation didn't just live in the U.S. They lived in Canada and England and all the countries fighting as a galvanized force to save their own freedom.
The Second World War was the last war fought in which there was an official surrender, peace prevailed for a while, and our military came home labeled as heroes. After that war, too many who served their country on foreign soil were labeled murderers and shunned by our "citizens" who felt they knew better, most never having served in a time of war, and who thought all disagreements could be settled with words. Those "citizens" were happy to take the freedoms fought for in the past and ram them down our throats with their Freedom of Speech, protesting for transgender bathrooms, the need to remove guns from everyone except criminals and their right to murder babies in the womb and sometimes out. Even aliens invited here without the support of We the People have protested in support of Sharia Law. Our own citizens have protested that we should remove or drastically limit our rights that our Forefathers so thoughtfully scribed based on their own experiences. Think Freedom of Speech and The Right to Bear Arms.
Politicians stepped to the fore, listening to the vocal minority instead of the silent working majority, the people who paid the taxes and didn't have the opportunity to make their opinions known because they were at work. The squeaky wheel getting the oil doesn't necessarily mean it should be paid attention to when the squeak is coming from paid protesters or professional dole recipients, instead of a piece of equipment. It's the families working their heart out to get ahead, giving their children a solid home and a good education who need to be heard, the people who know what "the American Dream" really is. Ashton Kutcher said it best when he stated at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards, “I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work," unless, of course, you are applying to get Welfare, food stamps and housing. Then it's a snap.
Former President Reagan once said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
I suggest to my readers that we are very close to our sunset years and unless we want to lose our freedoms, we now must be aware of the internal war of our government against us, as they imply by their every action that we are stupid, a danger to ourselves, and can be better cared for by our government through free insurance, free food, and an open border. Beware when your government indicates free things are more important than FREEDOM. Just like a stock market crash, it takes a lot longer to climb out of the crater than it did to fall into it. And if we wait too long and don't stand strong for our God Given and Constitutional rights, there won't be any help left at the top to save us.