I had a talk with a friend of mine, a veteran, and he could not get over how much different our country has become.
He said, “I was once willing to give my life for what I believed this country stood for. Today, I would give my life to protect my family from what this country has become.”
This kind of startled me, then I later thought that the changes in our country have caused the loss of cohesiveness that we all seemed to hold dear to each other.
What has changed? You keep hearing how we as a country are racist, our ideals have turned woke. What the heck is woke?
Does that mean we don’t care about each other anymore? It used to be you worked on caring for each other and helping your neighbor.
We were proud people who stood for our beliefs in God and Country. We stood for the National Anthem, pledged allegiance to our flag and gave thanks to our veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedoms.
When I was growing up, in the 50’s and 60’s many of our fathers served bravely in WWII and Korea. They came home from a war that was horrific mentally and physically on them.
They got back to civilian life and hoped for a better life for the generations to come. We had parades on “Decoration Day” and rode our bicycles with streamers and decorations on them.
Afterwards towns would have barbecues, play softball and thank these warriors that made us patriots. Where did this feeling of togetherness go? Such a time that I hope we can get back to.
I believe in our country. I believe we are all striving for peace and harmony. I don’t want to think that we can’t get back to being a nation that we were back then.
When we concentrate on not complicating a straight pin so much as doing what is right for America, I feel like my friend, how can we not be worried about what this country has become?
Let us not turn a broken shoelace into a major problem. I believe Americans will get back to being Americans once again and not let these broken shoelaces become divisive issues tearing us apart.
We have such a great nation and too much has been sacrificed to have it broken. “Duty, Honor, Country” has served us well for many years.
God Bless America and keep our troops still serving throughout the world safe.
Marc Farmilette, PDC – VFW Post Commander.
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