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Reflections on Veterans Day - May be long and boring to you

Reflections on Veterans Day - May be long and boring to you

A very good friend, and fellow Vietnam Vet, who lives in Utah, sent me this e-mail. It sums up my feelings as well, so rather than paraphrase, I’ll repost it here for Tanga veterans.
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It’s an unseasonably bitter cold morning in the teens and as I shuffle off to work at o’dark thirty on Veteran’s day 2012, I reflect upon what we once had and what that has become. Yesterday, bored with football because my Eagle’s suck, I watched the WWII in HD on the history channel for the umpteenth time and was overwhelmed by a dark, depressing cloud.

I watched the story of the Army Air Corp pilot who struggled through twenty-five death defying missions in a B-17 and rather than go home, signed up to fly P-51s. All he ever wanted to do was fly fighters, he’d written … and fixated on a target near the end of the war, he lost his life chasing his one and only kill as he plummeted into the ground. He was a writer and in his book, published posthumously after the war, he spoke of a mountain climber who loved climbing so much that when he climbed a jagged peak and lost his life in the ascent, he was blessed because he died doing something he loved. He said he hoped his life would end the same … and yes, it did in an instant as his P-51 hurtled into some farmer’s field at 400 MPH. What people those members of the ‘greatest generation’ really were.

What depressed me the most though was after a week of reflection, and an afternoon of watching brave men die for our country, I wonder if the sacrifices they made for freedom were worth the cost. To see a guy blown to bits on Iwo Jima or the slaughter of D-Day and realize that those brave souls gave their all so that some welfare mother of eight by eight different ‘baby daddies’ in Chicago could have a free cell phone and food stamps for life … or that some eighteen year old spoiled college brat can get her free birth control pills … well, frankly it sickens me.

The takers now outnumber the producers. The realization that all the morals and values I was raised with, that I raised my own children to believe in, are now laughed off by the takers as the product of a bygone era is crushing. To recognize that generations of good men and women gave their all for our freedoms only to have those freedoms ceaselessly dismantled by an elitist establishment whose stated goal is to change the USA into a giant police/welfare state is almost incompressible. Liberty and justice for all is only now true if you espouse the appropriate, government sanctioned beliefs … lessons learned by the fall of Rome or the defeat of Hilter are lost in that bygone era from which we came. Our children are educated to see government as their savior … the very same government who can’t successfully teach them to read. The past week’s headlines prove the truth … the USA is now a nation in decline. Free cell phones now trump hard work and success. Good is now evil … and evil is now good.

Okay … enough doom and gloom! Have a great veteran’s day, even though the veterans are working and the takers have the day to search out their next meth fix.

Take care,

Steve

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