Freedom

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Today has really got me looking back at how America has changed over the years or at least in my years. What I once thought and felt and now what I see around me and how I feel today. You know its almost 35 years ago that I joined the Marine Corps. When I joined there was not war going on we were fairly safe in our lives but there were two major reasons I joined. One I knew I was not going to college, and it seemed a good career choice. The other was because I believed our freedoms were worth protecting and that our way of life was a pretty good one. Like I say I didn’t join in the middle of a war, but I was willing to go if need be. I believed at the time that it would be worth the risk to keep our freedoms and our way of life. Maybe not for me if I were to get killed but for our future generations. Think about all that has changed in the last say 12 years. Things that I thought wouldn’t happen have happened. We gave out government the right to force us into buying products we might not want. We have turned against each other for our beliefs more than I ever remember, we let our government and media divide us more than ever. Our elections have become a joke to the world. We went from never negotiating with terrorist to trading 5 for 1 and now we make deals with them. We always have pushed that we will never leave Americans behind and now we give away billions in weapons and leave thousands behind. We used to protect our own and our allies and now we leave them behind to be slaughtered by our enemy. We used to protect our boarders and keep our citizens safe, now we open our boarders and give more rights to those who break the law than those who follow the law. We allow some of our citizens to burn our cities to the ground and kill dozens because one cop killed one person. We want to see a cop strung up because he is accused of brutality, but we do nothing while dozens are killed everyday in our inner cities. When someone speaks out about this, we rather call them a racist than seeing the truth in the statement. We now let a few convince us that there are 588 different genders when science tells us there are two, save for the very small percent that have a rare exception. We don’t want to believe that science, but they are yelling about believing the science behind a vaccination. Of course, if you don’t cater to these people well then you must be a sexist or some sort of phobist. Our government and media have divided us so far apart that we can’t even see it anymore, our country is falling apart at the seems and we do nothing about it. We tear down our history instead of learning from it and correcting it going forward. Instead of learning from our past we rather pretend it didn’t happen so that we won’t have our feelings hurt. I remember once hearing the words “UNITED WE STAND, DEVIDED WE FALL”. I don’t know where or when or even who first spoke those words, but it always reminds me of our first 13 colonies. They pulled together to fight for our freedoms. Yes, freedoms to choose to live and think how you wish. Not the freedom to force me into living and thinking like you want me to.