An essay I wrote.......
Does America still have heroes? Do patriots still tend the fire of morality and does virtue yet smolder among the historic ashes of this country? These are the burning questions my fellow countrymen and I are seeking to answer in these harsh and uncertain times. We ask if we still have heroes but first we must determine what makes a hero. I will not bore you with a transcribed definition of the word or another's thoughts on the subject but will offer my own. America's conscience has been seared and we, as her citizens have elevated the desire to please ourselves over that of preserving the sacred liberties and inalienable rights so intrinsic to our country's creation. Our founder's legacy transcends time through the ages, inspiring the next generation of their kind to greater risks of intrepid daring and patriotism.
Throughout the course of history, heroes have been born and created, tried and found true. Yet time and again, the heroes’ vision has been squandered by their complacent successors ignorantly taking freedom for granted. The law of entropy and decline has invaded, destroying blood stained rights and liberties. Alexander's Greece, Caesar's Rome, Napoleon's France, Hitler's Germany and countless others have fallen victim to this aggressor. They were built upon the whims, greed, and pride of a monarch's power hungry fist and vanquished in the same fashion. In each empire heroes rose and fell with a varying array of effect on the culture. Then, in 1776, a nation of freemen was founded, a nation of patriots with no tyrant at their head, but in its place, a desire to create a government where all men were intrinsically equal and mutually accountable. Checks and balances were constructed around and in what is now the world's longest standing constitution. America was the great experiment, a new chapter in the pages of history. Its birth defied every mold and precedent since the dawn of time and the world still looks to our nation for guidance, example and aid in their hour of need. Heroes rose from the ranks of ordinary men to the heights of risk and character necessary to attempt and complete the daunting task of creating and sustaining a nation's freedom from the clutches of oppression. The call was answered and the United States of America was born.
Unfortunately, this glorious memory is now just that, a memory. Judges legislate from the bench daily, gradually crumbling the checks and balances so vital to our foundation. The jury has become obsolete due to our citizenry's ignorance of the Constitution, Bill of Rights,
and Declaration of Independence. Their vote is swayed by feelings, emotions and misinformed beliefs regarding power and position. Long cherished institutions such as the family and marriage are being threatened and defrauded as I speak. The local government is a bottle-fed infant to its national counterpart and is seemingly forced to agree to the unconstitutional laws and rulings dictated them if they are to receive their precious funding. Our national debt situation, accountability breakdown, economic crisis and the mass encroachment of the national government on the state and local levels is a result of what we the people have brought upon ourselves. Every liberty that has been repealed we have surrendered. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the America in which we live. Our country now faces a crossroads with two choices; continue along the path of economic depression and national instability or return to her foundations, forsaking money, comfort, security and every other thing that would stand in the way of true patriotism. Heroes must arise.
America needs statesmen, not career politicians: she needs citizens, not handouts, and monetary reform, not debt. Yet today, this country threatens to destroy itself by straying far from the path of self-maintained liberty. When the people are of one accord and those who represent them understand the times as well as their foundations, principled decisions are made based on an absolute standard. There is a sharp contrast between our convenient, yielding lifestyle of today and the American dream that drove our forefathers. The standard of our nation may be charred and scorched by the heat of battle, her people may have lost hope and sight of the original purpose, and still her breast heaves with the muffled gasps of liberty. The flame of freedom may dwindle and be trod upon heedlessly, yet all who see and breathe their life into the fading embers of this free nation deserve the title hero. We all have a choice as to how our story will end and yet the pages of history will turn, with or without us. We will rise to the call or divided we will fall. I put the question to America herself. Do you still have heroes?
Does America still have heroes? Do patriots still tend the fire of morality and does virtue yet smolder among the historic ashes of this country? These are the burning questions my fellow countrymen and I are seeking to answer in these harsh and uncertain times. We ask if we still have heroes but first we must determine what makes a hero. I will not bore you with a transcribed definition of the word or another's thoughts on the subject but will offer my own. America's conscience has been seared and we, as her citizens have elevated the desire to please ourselves over that of preserving the sacred liberties and inalienable rights so intrinsic to our country's creation. Our founder's legacy transcends time through the ages, inspiring the next generation of their kind to greater risks of intrepid daring and patriotism.
Throughout the course of history, heroes have been born and created, tried and found true. Yet time and again, the heroes’ vision has been squandered by their complacent successors ignorantly taking freedom for granted. The law of entropy and decline has invaded, destroying blood stained rights and liberties. Alexander's Greece, Caesar's Rome, Napoleon's France, Hitler's Germany and countless others have fallen victim to this aggressor. They were built upon the whims, greed, and pride of a monarch's power hungry fist and vanquished in the same fashion. In each empire heroes rose and fell with a varying array of effect on the culture. Then, in 1776, a nation of freemen was founded, a nation of patriots with no tyrant at their head, but in its place, a desire to create a government where all men were intrinsically equal and mutually accountable. Checks and balances were constructed around and in what is now the world's longest standing constitution. America was the great experiment, a new chapter in the pages of history. Its birth defied every mold and precedent since the dawn of time and the world still looks to our nation for guidance, example and aid in their hour of need. Heroes rose from the ranks of ordinary men to the heights of risk and character necessary to attempt and complete the daunting task of creating and sustaining a nation's freedom from the clutches of oppression. The call was answered and the United States of America was born.
Unfortunately, this glorious memory is now just that, a memory. Judges legislate from the bench daily, gradually crumbling the checks and balances so vital to our foundation. The jury has become obsolete due to our citizenry's ignorance of the Constitution, Bill of Rights,
and Declaration of Independence. Their vote is swayed by feelings, emotions and misinformed beliefs regarding power and position. Long cherished institutions such as the family and marriage are being threatened and defrauded as I speak. The local government is a bottle-fed infant to its national counterpart and is seemingly forced to agree to the unconstitutional laws and rulings dictated them if they are to receive their precious funding. Our national debt situation, accountability breakdown, economic crisis and the mass encroachment of the national government on the state and local levels is a result of what we the people have brought upon ourselves. Every liberty that has been repealed we have surrendered. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the America in which we live. Our country now faces a crossroads with two choices; continue along the path of economic depression and national instability or return to her foundations, forsaking money, comfort, security and every other thing that would stand in the way of true patriotism. Heroes must arise.
America needs statesmen, not career politicians: she needs citizens, not handouts, and monetary reform, not debt. Yet today, this country threatens to destroy itself by straying far from the path of self-maintained liberty. When the people are of one accord and those who represent them understand the times as well as their foundations, principled decisions are made based on an absolute standard. There is a sharp contrast between our convenient, yielding lifestyle of today and the American dream that drove our forefathers. The standard of our nation may be charred and scorched by the heat of battle, her people may have lost hope and sight of the original purpose, and still her breast heaves with the muffled gasps of liberty. The flame of freedom may dwindle and be trod upon heedlessly, yet all who see and breathe their life into the fading embers of this free nation deserve the title hero. We all have a choice as to how our story will end and yet the pages of history will turn, with or without us. We will rise to the call or divided we will fall. I put the question to America herself. Do you still have heroes?
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