Crying
I am crying right now.
I am crying over the loss of my country.
My Freedom.
My Liberty.
My country is calling me a "Russian Bot" . So, A Russian Bot, I will become.
I am a child of the 70's. A time when we were taught the USSR was EVIL, And the USA was the ONLY answer to that Evil. I remember, vaguely, the Carter years. I remember very well the Reagan Years. I cast my very first vote for Ronald Reagan. Because he most represented what I had been taught at home.
You see, I had a one of those strange fathers.
He spent 23 years in the US Army and then spent 25 years working for an unmentioned airlines. He never graduated high school and he lied about his age to join the military. I wish I could say it was to defend his country but to be honest, I think it was to get away from the slaughter house he was working in and his 6 siblings that were living at home. But i have never met a more intelligent man.
From the time I was around 12, Dad would throw the local paper at me, and tell me "Pick your side".
I would read the articles. Form my opinions and then at dinner, it was on. I needed to pick my battles and defend my arguements. It only got worse when he went to work for the airlines. Unfortunately, it was an International airlines. Which meant, he had access to papers from around the globe and he used them. Those debates are some of my best memories of my father. I lost him in 2000.
In a way, I am glad I lost him then. Because, seeing what our country became the next year, would have broke his heart.
Which is why I am crying tonight.
Every Evil of the USSR that I was drilled into me as a child in school, at home, through the media, through propaganda while living in West Germany (yes, before the wall came down) has been commited by the USA.
And here's the kicker..
No one cares..
Not the media,
Not the citizens.
The TRUTH is in front of their faces and they refuse to accept it.
So, I cry and pray.
Pray that the country can wake up and relize that it has been duped.
I am crying over the loss of my country.
My Freedom.
My Liberty.
My country is calling me a "Russian Bot" . So, A Russian Bot, I will become.
I am a child of the 70's. A time when we were taught the USSR was EVIL, And the USA was the ONLY answer to that Evil. I remember, vaguely, the Carter years. I remember very well the Reagan Years. I cast my very first vote for Ronald Reagan. Because he most represented what I had been taught at home.
You see, I had a one of those strange fathers.
He spent 23 years in the US Army and then spent 25 years working for an unmentioned airlines. He never graduated high school and he lied about his age to join the military. I wish I could say it was to defend his country but to be honest, I think it was to get away from the slaughter house he was working in and his 6 siblings that were living at home. But i have never met a more intelligent man.
From the time I was around 12, Dad would throw the local paper at me, and tell me "Pick your side".
I would read the articles. Form my opinions and then at dinner, it was on. I needed to pick my battles and defend my arguements. It only got worse when he went to work for the airlines. Unfortunately, it was an International airlines. Which meant, he had access to papers from around the globe and he used them. Those debates are some of my best memories of my father. I lost him in 2000.
In a way, I am glad I lost him then. Because, seeing what our country became the next year, would have broke his heart.
Which is why I am crying tonight.
Every Evil of the USSR that I was drilled into me as a child in school, at home, through the media, through propaganda while living in West Germany (yes, before the wall came down) has been commited by the USA.
And here's the kicker..
No one cares..
Not the media,
Not the citizens.
The TRUTH is in front of their faces and they refuse to accept it.
So, I cry and pray.
Pray that the country can wake up and relize that it has been duped.
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