Page 59 - A Soldiers Exposition

IMAGINE FOR A BRIEF MOMENT

Did you serve? Why or why not?

Did you bother to vote? Why or why not?

Do you have a family member(s) or close friend(s) that served?

Perhaps I have a revelation for you when later on I discuss PTSD in-depth.

Imagine for a moment that you observe; not actually participate in the deed, but observe: A soldier killing
someone (combat or not), walking away, going back to base and writing a letter home to his wife without
a single word of what he had done that day.

“Honey, I made it through another day. I’m fine, kiss the baby for me. Love you.”

By the way, this soldier is a ripe old age of 20.

He has a GED and reads at the sixth-grade level.

His state of affairs is perfectly acceptable in our society.

The deliberate dumbing down of America is real and it is destroying our nation little by little, and day by
day.

In The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, claims that changes gradually
brought into the American public education system attempt to eliminate the influences of a child's parents
(religion, morals, and national patriotism) and mold the child into a member of the proletariat in
preparation for a socialist-collectivist world of the future.

Later in the book, I devote an entire section on our failing education system, and I provide ideas for
improvement.

In our society grieving is often reserved for close loved ones or friends.

A soldier does not feel sad for the enemy; that’s the couched rule. But who is the enemy? Is a terrorist in
this category or defined otherwise?

In today’s world, it seems our government is quick (hasty?) to brand a person or a group as terrorists,
thereby being able to apply the rules of the Patriot Act which was signed into law on October 26, 2001,
following the attacks of 9-11.

I fully support the idea that: “If you have done nothing wrong – you have nothing to fear.” However, I
encourage you to explore the provisions of the Patriot Act and use critical thinking to ask whether the Act
goes too far. I believe our civil liberties are in danger when the government is permitted to classify a
citizen as a terrorist and detain and override several of our otherwise legal protections.