This morning on my way to work I was listening to the Rick Roberts Show and a caller to the show made such a great comment that got me thinking.  I don’t have the exact quote, but pretty much the jest of it was he has lived most of his life in what the countries greatest generation left for him, and he was happy to have lived in the zenith of civilization, and he was disappointed with what we have done to the legacy of what our generation inherited.

I was quite impressed and it has made me think of what the generation of my grandparents left us, and what my generation and my parent’s generation did to flush what they did for us, down the drain.

My grandparents were all immigrants, and they were legal of course.  On my dad’s side, his father hailed from Ireland and his mother was from Germany.  On my mother’s side her father was from Germany and her mother was from France.  They all learned to speak English, got jobs, and worked hard to build a life for themselves.

They survived the depression and in fact all were homeowners.  They were also the generation that won World War II.  At the end of that War the United States was a respected country, and people looked up to us.  What happened to us, and why are we looked down upon now.

I started thinking about that.  Before World War II the United States was kind of an isolationist government though there are some folks in some of the US territories, the Philippines, and Mexico that might disagree with that, as there were still a few things going on from the Spanish/American War and the Mexican/American War.

World War II gained America respect throughout the world.  What have we done with that legacy?  We have flushed it own the drain is what we have done.  And I blame the whole thing on the media, our schools, politicians and Hollywood.

While I was in the Navy for most of my adult life I watched opinions of Americans drop.  I remember my first trip to Townsville, Australia in 1976 and my last trip there in 2000 and saw the difference.  In 1976 people stood in line for hours to tour the ship.  Our dial a sailor program for people to take us out and show us around never had enough sailors to fill all the requests.  In 2000 that attitude had changed as there were few dial a sailor requests and I had many people there voice that they were disappointed in the US as we were immoral, greedy, and trying to dominate the world.

Where did they get that view?  It is from the movies and television shows that come out of Hollywood and also our left wing news media.  Oh and by the way this was when Bill Clinton was still President so it cannot be blamed on President Bush.

The United States started its decline in the 1960’s as television and movies seemed to start stretching the decency boundaries.   You also had all the entitlement programs started by President Johnson and his new society movement.  The colleges and high schools were taken over by people that were busy teaching the liberal agenda, and the students who were busy getting high on marijuana and other drugs.  The news media had a heyday trying to stop the Vietnam War, and as they are now, always reported just the bad things that happened.

Since I was in the Navy through the 70’s up until the millennium I didn’t really keep up much with the news.  I never had the time, as I was married to my job and trying to advance.  I would have a good idea about things that were going on, but I never had the time to analyze it as I have the chance to do now.   I knew about some of the bigger things that happened in the press, and I kept up with a little politics, mainly just to vote for who I thought would do the best job. 

I also spent a lot of time deployed over those years and during deployment you don’t have the access to the news as you do when you are at home.  Actually you do have more access these days as ships now have satellite Internet and satellite television.

On my last deployment I was exposed to FOX News for the first time, and I connected with it more than I had connected with news in the past.  Before I had been watching CNN, NBC with Tom Brokaw, and Nightline. 

When I started watching FOX it was more in line with what I had experienced while I was deployed.  I would watch CNN or NBC’s reporting and wonder where they got their story from, as I didn’t see or experience what they were reporting.

After I retired from the Navy I started channel surfing and comparing news reports.  I started seeing that commentators on the networks were presenting the news in a manner to make the United States look bad.

At the same time I started watching the recording and movie industries, along with TV.  I wonder how everything got so vulgar, and wondered how the FCC let all this happen to the public airwaves.  I started watching the ACLU attacking religion and supporting those that would destroy this country.  I also got to look carefully at the games politicians play to stay in office at all costs, while going against the will of their constituents. 

When I see the protest groups running around criticizing the government and the troops, wanting to open our borders, and now even supporting terrorists it sickens me.  If people are so dissatisfied with the way things are, then leave.  There are plenty of countries that will take you in.  If the United States were to go the route that these people want it to go, there would be no more United States.  We would be just as messed up as some of these other countries that have gone socialist.

Better yet when the terrorists that some of these left wing wacko’s support against Israel start blowing them up in shopping malls, pizza places, and movie theaters, they might then open their eyes to the fact that these people could care less if you support them or not.  They just want to kill the infidels and they don’t care if you are white, black, Hispanic, 80 years old, or 8 years old.

Imagine a world where women can’t drive, can’t divorce, can’t vote.  Imagine a world where if you speak out you will receive their justice.  That will happen if we lose World War III.  It took Pearl Harbor to awaken the nation to the horrors of the Axis Powers.  We have already had our Pearl Harbor for World War III in the World Trade Center bombings.  But it seems there are many people out there that have forgotten about that.  Instead their hatred for anything Bush is causing the enemy to sit up and take notice.  They are seeing the weakness our society as a whole is exhibiting.

In World War II all the people of this country came together and worked toward the war effort.  As a result we are speaking English instead of German or Japanese.  In these times people are worried about their Starbucks coffee, or who is going to win American Idol.  The world outside of our borders is a nasty place, and these terrorists are doing this stuff all over the world.  You just won’t see it on the news unless it makes the Bush Administration look bad.

This Hezbolla group currently at war with Israel has said that thy will activate their cells world wide, and that included the cells they have right here in the United States.  I would say get all of your Starbuck’s coffee now, before there is no more Starbuck’s. 

I guess that is all I have to say today.  I am just rambling now but I’m sure I got my point across.