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A FATHER'S DAY WISH
Now also posted at: myamericanopinion.com
It’s Father’s Day as I write this post, which begs the
question: How would your father or my father look at where America has taken
itself today? How many times have you said: “The founding fathers would be
rolling over in their graves if they saw what is happening to our country
today?”
Having been born in Pennsylvania two years before Joe Biden
back in 1898, my dad recognized early on that he needed to get an education if
he wanted to avoid spending the rest of his life in the coal mines. His forte was mathematics, but he also had a
fundamentally strong religious background; he managed to work his way through a
college in Connecticut and to earn a degree in mathematics with a minor in theology. And, of course, the depression hit… just
after he made a major navigational invention and went into business.
Licking his wounds, he took a job teaching mathematics at
a private boarding school in Lake Placid, New York. He then earned his Master’s Degree in
education from Cornell and his Doctorate at Columbia. During this period, his working associates
convinced him into going to work for the Indian Service as an educator; that’s
where he spent the vast majority of his life… teaching and mentoring Native
Americans on the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni reservations.
He believed in helping the disadvantaged, and it was
largely through his efforts that Native Americans through the United States
today are pulling themselves out of poverty as a result of their education and
self-governance. His ancestors, like my maternal
ancestors, were in this country as early as 1636. He had a strong streak of patriotism in him
and he never strayed from his religious background.
It is because his attributes were passed down to my
brothers and my sister that I am now writing this post. I have to think that, should he arise from
the grave today, he would quickly jump back in and pull in piles of earth over
his casket behind him. People today sin
openly, where they used to bury their heads in shame if caught. People today are uncouth, vitriolic, mean-spirited,
dishonest and totally selfish. The only
time the word “God” is mentioned anymore is in conjunction with the words “damn
you.”
As for me, my wish for yesterday and today and tomorrow is
that my fellow mankind would stop today’s merry-go-round of life long enough to
realize that we may not have had cellphones, computers or video games in those
days… but life was indeed better. Life
was centered around God and godly ideals.
You could leave your doors unlocked at night and you didn’t have to pack
a gun to feel safe.
Even better, you could get a healthy night of sleep
without taking 16 pills, because you always knew in your heart and soul that
your day had been a good day in every respect, and that you had conducted
yourself according to that vast store of guidance and knowledge stored in the
Holy Bible.
That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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