For many years I’ve watched my kids walk through doors. Ever since they were old enough to walk into
dance class or Tai Kwon Do on their own I always watch to make sure they are
safely inside before I pull off. In recent
years I have seldom had to take my son anywhere, since he has been driving
himself, but yesterday I dropped him off at the Army recruiter and said
goodbye. From the recruiter he went to MEPS then off to basic training. Even though
he hasn’t been a child for a while, this was the last time I will ever watch
him walk through a door as my little boy, he is a man now, he has made the
choice to serve his nation as a soldier and I say God bless him. He is a fine
man and my best friend, the little boy that used to look up to me has now
become my hero.
One of the last things he did before taking his journey was
to vote. As are many soldiers, he is of course a conservative Republican who
loves the nation and the freedoms we have been entrusted with. He is praying that he won’t do his first hitch
in the service with Barak Obama the Bungler of Benghazi as his commander and
chief.
Would you want your son to serve under a President who
watched in real time an American consulate being attacked for seven hours and
did nothing? He will not answer a question but was more than willing to
erroneously blame some goofy internet video and the guy who made it ends up in
jail. This is the America I want my son to defend? The cover-up of Benghazi makes
Watergate, Monica Lewinski, and Iran Contra combined look like a traffic
violation yet our media is not only quiet but complacent in the cover-up. If we
are a nation that would reelect the President of the Benghazi affair, we deserve
what we get.
My son’s oath will be to the constitution of the United
States which Barak Obama ignores, he issues executive order to replace
legislative action, He ignores laws like DOMA which he doesn’t like, he sent
guns to Mexico to sway public opinion on gun control and as a result Federal
agents as well as hundreds of Mexican citizens are dead. He sabotages every attempt to produce our own
energy and wastes BILLIONS on phony energy programs. He has acquired layers of
debt my grandkids will be saddled with.
The President opposes religious freedom, as with his
Obama-care mandates and battles tirelessly to kill as many babies through
abortion as possible, (including infants born alive in failed abortions). The security
of the country will fall into disrepair, freedom will be at the discretion of
the secretary of HHS, and the only spending cuts that will be made in the cycle
of debt and spending which will continue unabated, will be trillions from the defense
budget. Don’t think however that the military will be used less, or that the
Navy the size of the pre WW1 navy will be taxed any less.
The free enterprise system will be crushed and the pursuit of
happiness will be denied my son’s sons. Poverty will grow and the middle class
will shrink, the land of opportunity will be just an also ran.
I am not offering any new thoughts today, only a reminder of
what is at stake in this election. Will we have Life Liberty and the Pursuit of
Happiness or not. For me its personal,
my father and his shipmates spilled blood into the briny Pacific in 1944 to
leave us a free nation, my son risks his life to preserve it and my generation
is on the verge of losing it.
Keep on the firing line for the sake of the soldiers!
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