PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON VETERANS DAY 2012
Subsequent to the 2012 Election, I as others, were dejected, angry, and immersed in self-denigration as to, ”Did I do enough personally to make a difference?” The pundits as usual peddled their wares of causation citing the usual Election abnormalities-VOTER FRAUD, DEMOGRAPHICS, TURNOUT, MEDIA COERCION, APATHY, and on and on. Of course these oft used terms and excuses have been consistent over time and applied to practically every Election in our lifetime and are of little consolation, when you’re on the losing side. However, I couldn’t help thinking that somehow, this time around, losing meant something a lot different. Usually, after an Election you pick up your personal pieces of despair, the Donkey’s tail gets longer and the Elephant’s trunk gets shorter, you say hello and exchange small talk with your former politically opposed neighbor, and life goes on again, until the next time. That’s just how it is in America.
CORRECTION FOLKS! That’s how it used to be in America.
As of November 6, 2012, the United States of America will NEVER be the same again. I suppose I could write chapter and verse as to the individual reasons for same, but you wouldn’t have enough time to read it, as I wouldn’t to write it, based on the enormity of transgressions, deceit, and treason the present Administration has facilitated. Even with the total collapse of the Main Stream Media to provide you with unbiased, objective fact finding, journalistic integrity, and a true accounting of what “ FREEDOM OF THE PRESS” is supposed to denote in the First Amendment, you somehow detected how the demise of this Country and its values was being orchestrated or at least fifty-nine million of you did. We could spend the remainder of our days on earth debating the cause and effect, weighing each element with a coefficient of negativity, and then add up the winning score for the ultimate losing factor. Each of us will have our own opinion of the whys and the wherefores, based on our life experiences and outcomes.
I guess what it comes down to is, “WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT AND WHAT ISN’T” All of us will probably come to different conclusions. I would respectfully ask that you bear with mine and I would be delighted to hear from you on yours. Thankfully, Veterans Day 2012 rolled around and kind of broke the post-traumatic spell of the Election results. I sat down and was stunned to realize that some fifty-one years, four months, and seven days ago I had just been herded off a bus at Marine Corps. Recruit Base, Parris Island, S.C. by three of the meanest looking, hell raising. U.S. Marine Corps. Drill Instructors, ALIVE, AND IN THE FLESH. I’m not quite sure whether it was the beginning of the end, or the end of a beginning. All I can tell you is that when you enter the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli, you undergo a change that no one has really been able to explain except that once you have entered, there is never the option of turning back and nothing on God’s green earth can change it.
I won’t bore you with the travails of my Marine Corps. career except that I was Honorably discharged, did not have to stand before a Firing Squad, and I will always be eternally grateful for the opportunity. Having reflected somewhat on the old days in the Corps. on this Veterans Day, my thoughts turned to the dedicated, brave, young men of this country, who everyday fight for the principles and values they hold true and whose lives’ blood oftentimes runs out much too soon in their quest of honor, just as those in the generations before them. For quite some time I had been storing the T.V. film, ‘TAKING CHANCE’ the story of a Marine Corps. Colonel requesting that he be allowed to escort the body of a young Marine PFC., who had died heroically in Iraq, back to his parents and home for final internment. My hesitation to view this will not be a point for this discussion and I will leave it to those of you that did see it. However, the bottom line is this. How many thousands of lives like this young man have been lost, given, and sacrificed in our lifetime for the sake of Freedom. Surely, the causative factors behind the operations requiring these deaths may be socially debated, politically questioned, and be procrastinated about for centuries to come. But you know what? When you’re dead, you’re dead and all that counts, ”PERIOD” is what the individual most affected , thought he or she is dying for. You make your best guess as to what the majority of them thought in their last moment. Now back to the present.
We’ve seen this Election come and go just as we’ve seen the one before it. As previously mentioned, we’ve seen the darker side; subjugation and distortion of pertinent and relevant facts to insulate and protect incumbents, misrepresentation of eligibility and non-recognition of aides such as authentic Voter I.D. to reduce the opportunity and submission of Illegal Votes, incidents of blatant Voter Fraud, etc. But, these pale in comparison to the phenomena, which reared its ugly head in the previous election, but the public was assured that preventative measures would be facilitated to prevent a re-occurrence. Rather an escalation of the problem took place and those who stood to lose the most, their very lives in some cases, to ensure that we have the freedom and unrestricted ability to make our voices heard as United States Citizens. U.S. Military personnel were DENIED THE OPPORTUNITY in thousands of cases to exercise their RIGHT TO VOTE by the very people whom they defend. This is unacceptable, inexcusable, un-American and downright treasonous. If travesties such as this, continue to be allowed, we have indeed lost much more than an Election. WE HAVE LOST OUR COUNTRY. We have allowed a band of Social Progressives to dismantle in four short years, what took two hundred thirty-six years to create.
What is more abhorrent, however, is the lack of outrage on the part of our citizenry regarding this, just one of many events heralding our demise. I listen, but I hear nothing collectively on the part of our Elected Officials to articulate their outrage and defiance to this sacred obligation under our Constitution, not even from the candidates that lost. If nothing else, I would hope this communication would at least light the flame of rebuttal and recoil amongst some of you to stand up and fight for the very people ,who lay their life on the line, and fight for your right to Free Speech and the pursuit of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. If we, as Americans, cannot bring ourselves to do at least that, we are for practical purposes all ready dead as Patriots, and as an American People, who somehow have lost their way and no longer have the Spirit, Conviction, or Love of Country to carry on the Sacred Tradition as our Military Personnel do each and every day. If we cannot do that, what a sorry lot we have become as a Nation. SEMPER FI
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