“All this military history and much more should be part of our national conversation – - not topics relegated to the archives of academics and locked away from school children.”
By Guest Blogger Richard Falknor
@ Blue Ridge Form
Will Veterans Day Fade When Only A Few Still Grasp Why?
“Readers likely lose patience with the endless on-line Veterans Day Weekend platitudes politicians and pundits view as obligatory around November 11. Consequently we’ll try to get right to the point.
Our civic life is in grave danger from the neglect of our American heritage by taxpayer-supported schools and worse, taxpayer-supported schools of education.
This education malpractice in transmitting our heritage is nurtured in political correctness or cultural Marxism.
This malpractice deprives coming generations of students of any serious understanding of the history of our freedoms and institutions, our religious tradition, our achievements in enterprise, invention, and agriculture, and our military victories and setbacks.
Such popular understanding is vital to maintain support for preserving our national sovereignty in the face of fierce globalist efforts to dilute it away.
Of course, the GOP is unlikely to confront the larger problem of the Left manipulating the curriculum – - what Mary Grabar calls the “brainwashing of America.”
But that is a subject for another day.
What we conservatives can do ourselves and do now is teach ourselves, our families, our children, about the victories, hardships, misadventures, and traditions of our fighting men and women since the colonial wars in New England and the beginnings of the Republic.
We can talk with our friends and colleagues about about the complexities of the Barbary Wars (with their implications for today) and the “Shores of Tripoli.”
We can try to understand how Abraham Lincoln managed his generals – at least that Republican didn’t promise to “talk to his generals” before he could figure out what to do.
We can try to learn some lessons from the many-front struggle with Germany, Italy, and the Empire of Japan in World War II.
We can remember the fearful price we paid in Korea from post-World-War-II neglect (scroll down) of our forces.
Most of all, we can appreciate the skill and endurance of our forces from Roger’s Rangers in the French and Indian War, to Washington’s crossing to Trenton, to Joshua Chamberlain at Gettysburg, to Torpedo Eight at Midway, and to the epic Marine breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in Korea.
All this military history and much more should be part of our national conversation – - not topics relegated to the archives of academics and locked away from school children.”
Dell Notes: All of those who know me....or are getting to know me....know full well that I agree with every word Richard has written here. Shying away from our military history will not change it. Our posterity needs to know that millions have given their lives so that they will live in freedom.
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