Chi-CityChica

This is basically awesome! Enough said.

I’ve always found myself drawn to the stories of those who fight or have fought for our country. I watch all the war movies, I’ve read many books, and I became obsessed with the mini-series Band of Brothers, watching it over and over. My father and I have often shared this same passion or interest. It is our history, it is pride, and it is part of what makes America what she is…our devotion to the life God gave us, freedom, liberty and justice for all.

I think one of the reasons it always tugs at my heart strings or evokes this warm feeling of pride is that I am in awe of them. I am in awe over their ability to offer themselves unselfishly at the feet of our country, to put everything on the line, their lives, their futures, and all because they truly believe and have a passion for what they are here to do for our country. They are strong yet they feel everything. The military of the World War era were mind blowingly devoted to the cause, strong but never afraid to show their emotion and love for fellow troops. I swear I’ve never seen so many grown men cry than those who mention the loss and pride they felt while fighting in World War 2. But I never judge them; I just become more in awe of them.

I once toyed with the idea of joining the army when I was younger. (This might make many who know me laugh) but the truth was I was lost and unsure about the future but I knew I had all this passion inside me and I thought I could direct it in that way, and what a way really. It never actualized into anything (again no shocker for those who know me). But the passion I felt for the cause and the pride for our country and those who’ve fought, bled, and suffered has remained strong.

By the standard portrayed of the younger generations today, I shouldn’t be so preoccupied by this portion of our history. I’ve never personally fought in a war, I wasn’t alive for World War 1 or 2, or even Vietnam. But I value the history of what this country has gone through and how it affects us today.

Yes we do have a war going on now, but by today’s media standards I shouldn’t feel any pride about this war as was displayed during World War 2, because the media tries to tell us it’s an unnecessary and unjust war. Some in the media or our society say America is wrong and we push our views on people. Oh, how dare we try to push Freedom onto people, how dare we try to use our power and numbers to try and help others, including those who are oppressed, being terrorized and murdered in the streets? Something is off about this view. If running to other countries aid at the expense of our own American lives and dollars is selfish, well than I must live in an alternate reality or apparently should have been born in the more patriotic era of the 1930s.

As I think about the troops today and how our world has changed, it’s not just the world, it’s us here in America specifically, we’ve changed.

We live in a different place, where Christianity is now seen by some as a new form of a terror threat, where everything and everyone is way too concerned about political correctness, so concerned they ignore the bloody (literally) signs of homegrown terrorism at one of its very own Army Bases!! Christianity is challenged, torn down, made fun of and seen in an unfavorable light more than any other religion by our media. No one wants to question or judge other religions, especially Muslim for fear of offending anyone. Yes a very LARGE percent of Muslims are NOT extremists, but does that mean they should never be examined when examples warrant it? We as Christians certainly aren’t getting a free pass in the media, how come it’s ok to throw us under the bus on a daily basis?

13 people lost their lives this month to terrorism on our soil, 12 people who serve our country along with one civilian. It wasn’t just a crime; in mine and many others opinions this was an attack, a form of terrorism. No matter how this administration or media tries to spin this, just look at the growing amount of evidence, and from the very mouth of the attacker himself (screaming: ”Allah, Akbar” as he opened fire, which is what terrorists say before blowing themselves and others up!) this was a form of a terrorist act on our country. It’s the first successful attack since September 11th. Yes on a smaller scale, but 13 lives or 3000 lives, it’s still lives lost at the hands of Islamic terrorism.

I fear it won’t be the last with this growing lack of support for whether our country should amp up its defense system. We get deeper and deeper in debt, spending money on the wrong things and in the mean time our defense system is weakened. We are going back to a pre-911 mentality and it scares the living shit out of me. Our current President touts around the world on his never ending apology tour, making America look weak and adopting appeasement tactics. That’s not our country, we are not weak, we are not submissive; we are strong and mighty. We help those in need first before any other countries do, we accept people of all races and religions, we believe in equality (well maybe not for long…us poor Christians, but at least we have God on our side!) we have freedom of speech (well wait, now that’s being challenged too). Do you see where I am going with this? We are straying too far from how are country was built, we are at risk of becoming too controlled by our government and appearing weak to our enemies.

This will not stand, our fathers, grandfathers, mothers and grandmothers did not fight, bleed, suffer, sacrifice, cry, and mourn for so many back in the World Wars only to have us falter now. It’s an abomination to their memories and hard work. We owe all that serve our nation our greatest gratitude every day, not just today.