WELL SAID, INDEED ~
A very poignant and thought-provoking analysis of our situation.
Read and share it again during the current mess China and stupid, money-grubbing westerners and internationalists & leftists have brought us.
DB (Another 80 year old who confirms his comments.)
I talked with a man today, an 80+ year old man. I asked him if there was
anything I can get him while this Coronavirus scare was gripping America.
He simply smiled, looked away and said:
“Let me tell you what I need! I need to believe, at some point, in this
country my generation fought for… I need to believe in this nation we handed
safely to our children and their children…
I need to know this generation will quit being a bunch of sissies…that
they respect what they’ve been given…that they’ve earned what others
sacrificed for.”
I wasn’t sure where the conversation was going or if it was going anywhere
at all. So, I sat there, quietly observing.
“You know, I was a little boy during WWII. Those were scary days. We
didn’t know if we were going to be speaking English, German or Japanese at
the end of the war. There was no certainty, no guarantees like Americans
enjoy today.
And no home went without sacrifice or loss. Every house, up and down every
street, had someone in harm’s way. Maybe their Daddy was a soldier, maybe
their son was a sailor, maybe it was an uncle. Sometimes it was the whole
damn family…fathers, sons, uncles…
Having someone, you love, sent off to war…it wasn’t less frightening than
it is today. It was scary as Hell. If anything, it was more frightening.
We didn’t have battle front news. We didn’t have email or cellphones. You
sent them away and you hoped…you prayed. You may not hear from them for
months, if ever. Sometimes a mother was getting her son’s letters the same
day Dad was comforting her over their child’s death.
And we sacrificed. You couldn’t buy things. Everything was rationed. You
were only allowed so much milk per month, only so much bread, toilet paper.
EVERYTHING was restricted for the war effort. And what you weren’t using,
what you didn’t need, things you threw away, they were saved and sorted for
the war effort. My generation was the original recycling movement in
America.
And we had viruses back then…serious viruses. Things like polio, measles,
and such. It was nothing to walk to school and pass a house or two that was
quarantined. We didn’t shut down our schools. We didn’t shut down our
cities. We carried on, without masks, without hand sanitizer. And do you
know what? We persevered. We overcame. We didn’t attack our President, we
came together. We rallied around the flag for the war. Thick or thin, we
were in it to win. And we would lose more boys in an hour of combat than we
lose in entire wars today.”
He slowly looked away again. Maybe I saw a small tear in the corner of his
eye. Then he continued:
“Today’s kids don’t know sacrifice. They think a sacrifice is not having
coverage on their phone while they freely drive across the country. Today’s
kids are selfish and spoiled. In my generation, we looked out for our
elders. We helped out with single moms who’s husbands were either at war or
dead from war. Today’s kids rush the store, buying everything they can…no
concern for anyone but themselves. It’s shameful the way Americans behave
these days. None of them deserve the sacrifices their granddads made.
So, no I don’t need anything. I appreciate your offer but, I know I’ve been
through worse things than this virus. But maybe I should be asking you,
what can I do to help you? Do you have enough pop to get through this,
enough steak? Will you be able to survive with 113 channels on your tv?”
I smiled, fighting back a tear of my own…now humbled by a man in his 80’s.
All I could do was thank him for the history lesson, leave my number for
emergency and leave with my ego firmly tucked in my rear.
I talked to a man today. A real man. An American man from an era long gone
and forgotten. We will never understand the sacrifices. We will never
fully earn their sacrifices. But we should work harder to learn about
them..learn from them…to respect them.
Source:
http://www.ini-world-report.org/2020/03/24/well-said-indeed/