Post 911

My wife made the best observation of this day in history and our reaction as a country. She put it on her facebook account and I asked if I could share it and she said yes.

I got me a good woman!


For those of you that are political correct lovers, please stop reading. Okay, you've been warned. Every event, especially tragedies, can be used to strengthen us so that we can go to greater heights, or we can allow it to defeat us and we can become weaker. There's lots of wonderful postings about how we 'remember' those that gave their lives on 9/11 and how we're 'grateful'. Are we? Have we used this attack on OUR soil to strengthen us, so that we support our military, stand up for Christian religious freedoms, fight to defend America? Or are we electing and supporting officials that are stripping our military; standing up for everyone's religions EXCEPT for Christian values; strengthening our borders; defending innocent Americans when they are captured on foreign lands? Lip service on an anniversary is like a man buying his wife a huge diamond, beautiful flowers and dinner at an expensive diner and then cheat on her, degrade her and live like a single frat boy the other 364 days of the year. SHAME on US, America. We need to find that passion of unity and demand that our leaders share our passion and love for our country. If not, OUT THEY GO!!! Let's truly honor the lives that were sacrificed on 9/11 because if we do not, the NEXT blood shed is not only on the terrorists, but OURS!


The thing about being a soldier, sailor, or any type of warrior is the willingness and ability to fight, but also to be ready.  I believe it was Thomas Jefferson that stated that the price of liberty and freedom was eternal vigilance. The late Ronald Reagan stated that we as Americans are only one generation away from tyranny!

Memorial Day

One of the things I strive for on my blog is to give heed to traditions and where they come from.  I believe that in both Religious and secular life, traditions are similar to a binding force or better stated a beehive.  I prefer the  beehive analogy because it gives us a structure, contributes to nature and is sweet to the taste.  It even enlightens the eyes (of the mind and spirit as well as the physical eyes).  However; the down side is, that if you step out of line with traditions or try to disrupt and destroy them, just like a beehive you will get swarmed with angry defenders of the colony!

We find the roots of our American Memorial day starting after the Civil war.  Incidentally, the American Civil war still ranks as the war with the most American casualties of any conflict.  Originally called remembrance day, it was a day to decorate the graves of the dead from that war.  Later, it has been used to remember all that were once with us.

Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry: Original in the Capital in Topeka, Kansas

I understand that in Asian culture (Specifically as I know Japanese and Korean culture)  the aged are respected and the dead are venerated.  Some cultures will even pray to dead ancestors.  As odd as this seems, there is a similar Catholic tradition; that being the communion of the Saints.  When we recognize the contribution and influence that our ancestors had on shaping our present world, it doesn't seem that the East and West are too far apart in some philosophical perspectives!  the American Civil War shaped this country in many ways.  Some were good (Abolition and equal rights for all) and others bad (Jim Crow laws and ambivalence to our fellow brothers and sisters politically and ideologically).

In the final result, as far as today is concerned, we shouldn't judge the people of the past too harshly, and definitely not to 21st century standards.

We cannot change the past, we can only learn from it and be the best we can be today.

Honor our heroes of war and our loved ones who have died.  Remember the legacy that they have left us as one people: Americans!