Quote:Brother, very well put, especially the last paragraph.  Unfortunately, I often see and hear people (mostly the younger generation) speak bad about "American Greatness".  Many don't think that our country is "great" or that we have done anything notable.

 

These same people "tweet" on their smart phones or post to facebook, yet they don't realize that we as a country and a community created these things.

 

Talk about American Greatness for a bit.  We put man on the moon.  We invented and developed computers.  The C programming language (still in use today) was developed by Dennis Richie back in the 70's.  We developed the internet as well as the personal computer that most people own and use.  "Smart phones" were first developed and created by us.  The list goes on.

 

To try and get back on topic, this happened without anyone really caring about a flag flying above a war memorial.

American exceptionalism is considered a bad thing with the generation coming up.  They've been ingrained in that mindset by the same people who protested this nation in the 60's, 70's and 80s.  These people entered the ranks of "educators" and slowly went about rewriting American history in a very methodical way, eliminating things and really focusing on social issues that were the focal point of THEIR formative years. 

 

As a result, we've got a generation of young Americans growing up who don't know how to think, and who don't have any perspective based on the factual and complete history of this nation.  We're seeing that expand beyond even their wildest dreams with common core.  I heard a great description of this a while back where they aren't educating people to be thinkers.  They're training them to be workers.  That fits right into the mindset of our current leadership.

 

This shooting had nothing to do with that flag.  That was simply a convenient byproduct that could be leveraged int hat never ending quest to take full advantage of any tragedy for political gain.  The anti gun and anti flag folks pounced almost immediately.  It's what they do. 

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