Re: OT- Sac Lunches, For those that missed a good story
- From: "Bob Hatch" <bob.hatch@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:36:43 -0600
In news:4a9899c6$0$13393$b9f67a60@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
TXBill <el2468alumbrado@xxxxxxxxx> typed:
"William Boyd" <williamboyd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That is Honor, and there are way too
many people in this country who
no longer understand it.'
Great story. My wife and I will occasionaly pay the check for a group
of serving personnel (soliders, sailors, marines, or airmen) when we
encounter then in a restaurant and leave before they realize what
happened.
I've been pondering of late the differences that seem to be arising
between the Nation of the United States of America, the Government of
the Unites States of America, and the People of the United States of
America, and trying to decide, outside of the usual rhetoric, to which
of these entities an "American" owes his or her true allegiance.
- TXBill
OK, I've thought about it. Not the Government for sure. The minute you
decide you owe your allegiance to this or any government you give that
government free rein to give and take freedoms from you and others. We owe
no allegiance to the government and those in elected office. In my opinion
they owe their allegiance, at least part of it to the people who elected
them, kind of.
Not to the People. When we give our allegiance to "the people" we, in a
sense, agree and pledge to take care of them, and them us. My understanding
of the history of this country is that "the people" of this country should
be left free to succeed or fail on their own.
That leave only one choice in my mind. The Nation. We say the words several
times in a year and hundreds or maybe thousands of times in our life:
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands. One Nation Under God with liberty and justice
for all.
When we give our true allegiance to the Nation, we give it to the
Constitution and the principles on which this Nation was founded and built.
In doing so we pledge to allow "the people" either collectively or
individually to obtain the highest level of success and happiness they can
achieve. Our country, our nation got as great as we are/were because of the
principles and guidelines set down by our founding fathers and codified by
the Constitution.
We have lost much of what they gave us by ignoring those principles and
allowing ourselves to get fat and lazy.
Maybe it's time to feed the "Tree of Liberty."
--
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism,
but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every
fragment of the socialist program until one day America
will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
Norman Thomas
http://www.bobhatch.com
http://www.tdsrvresort.com
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