New Year’s Resolution – To Remember
January 1st, 2010 • Related • Filed Under
My 2010 New Year’s resolution – To Remember.
To remember what happened, to remember why we are fighting, to remember what we are fighting for, to remember to never forget, to remember to never give up. This is our country and they cannot have it, they cannot have us.
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There are people “fighting” in Iraq and Afghanistan, and “fighting” for human lives in Haiti and other places. Please don’t compare yourselves to those people.
Respectfully, there are most certainly our most treasured troops “fighting” in the literal combat sense abroad. My own ancestors have lost their lives to war. While our troops are waging war against the insurgents, we at home, who are trying to preserve our democracy and our way of life as we have come to cherish it, are waging a war against those who would abolish our laws and try to nullify our very founding document, our constitution.
That is why there is rise to the call to fight for our country, call it the tea party movement, call it “the mob”, call it the more than 1 million voters in Massachusetts (independents, democrats, and Republicans alike), but it is nothing more than “the people”. And we are supposed to have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Not a government that claims to want equality for everyone, by progressively taxing the higher income earners, and giving to the people who have not earned the money. It sounds like equality, but instead government control, to become a national socialist Republic.
This country was literally founded on faith, religious faith, as prayer was called in the actual writing and forethought of our founding documents. There are those who would have you believe that the very faith that was so extensively written about and called upon by our founders, is irrelevant, not only irrelevant but illegal? Illegal? On our coin and currency, we state our allegiance, not only to a god, but to this great country. Men are human; our ultimate director is god; in god we trust.
When our founding document, the constitution was written and to this day, one of the most important principles was the idea that the Federal Government had to be limited in its powers, not a government that today has grown so out of control, there is argument within the very government that is trying to find out “how did we spend this money?” (the taxes you pay!) Thomas Jefferson wrote, he propheced, what would happen to such a government and its peoples. There would inevitably be anarchy, dissent, and war. So, that the war you state is “over there” is suddenly here at home. We need to pay attention closely to what is and what has happened abroad, or we will suddenly find ourselves fighting the fight for liberty right here at home.
God bless this free country, The United States of America, where people are free to publicly say these kinds of things to people that hear.
Sorry you misunderstood. I did not mean to compare myself or anyone to the soldiers serving. I simply meant to acknowledge that we have a responsibility to them – every minute of everyday.