Posted by
Corthell on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:34:54 PM
Ready to lay the last egg?
America is full of these patriots – many who have trouble walking but still stand at attention and salute Old Glory as it passes by; however, I fear when my generation leaves this old earth there will be no one to carry on with the tradition and it saddens me deeply. I mentioned other patriots in my July 7, 2003 article: Can One Person Make a Difference. Marilyn M. Barnewall echoes this sentiment in her “The Story of a Remnant.”Our country is no longer the virtuous nation that Ben Franklin mentioned in his 1787 address to the Constitutional Convention [2] He gave a discourse on the need to fix the course of American public service so that it would attract men of public virtue and repel scoundrels scrambling for a soft job. He said: Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these had great force in prompting men to action; but when united a view of the same object, they have in many minds the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall at the same time be a place of profit and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it.
In the 60s a new world began to emerge through drugs, “free sex,” Marxist socialism and communism and schools and universities became brain laundries. That 60s generation of adults is now running our country reminding me of the statement by Vladimir Lenin, “Give me just one generation of youth and I will transform the entire world.” How dare our misleaders of America end their speeches with “God Bless America” when they are far from Him? What arrogance!