August 5, 2014 at 4:08 p.m.
History lessons are becoming lost
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
As a youth in my teens growing up in Elwood in the 1980s I lived in a different America than today.
My generation was taught what it meant to be an American, a love for country and a appreciation of it’s institutions and patriotism. We learned proper history, correct history.
I talk to our youth today and they are totally clueless about what it means to be an American. You ask them something about American history and they have no idea what you are talking about sadly enough. I suppose the fault lies upon all of us, from the history books they read in schools today, teachers and at home with us the parents.?
Americans today are a bunch of spoiled brats. We have had it to easy for way too long, and we have forgotten the generations before us that built America from blood, sweat and tears.
Our youth today has no sence of patriotism. Thanks to the liberal left they are being taught that America is the problems of the world, that capitalism is bad and our forefathers were just rich white slave owners. ?
America isn’t perfect, what nation is?
But America has done more good for the world and mankind than any other nation.
America has saved Europe from tyrants not once but twice (WWI, WWII). We fought a cold war for over five decades against communism. America sent a man to the moon, and America is the first country to help around the globe when their is a natural disaster.
If we want to save this sinking ship we call America we have to do a better job and teach our youth that America is freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. Teach our youth that freedom is special and rare and it’s fragile, it needs production.
We have to go back to teaching our nation’s true history, things like why the pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was and what 30 seconds over Tokyo was about just to name a few.?
In closing I would like to give a special thanks to America’s greatest generation. Your generation saved the world from fascism. Rather you were on the battlefields of Europe, in the south Pacific somewhere, fighting on land, air or sea. Perhaps you were the wife of a serviceman waiting for your sweetheart to come home from war. You all sacrificed so much for freedom. So I want to personally thank you for your sacrifice and your service. Sadly we are losing over 1,500 WWII veterans a day. God bless you and may God bless America.
See you at the polls in November. Let’s take our country back.
Randy Harmon
Farmland
As a youth in my teens growing up in Elwood in the 1980s I lived in a different America than today.
My generation was taught what it meant to be an American, a love for country and a appreciation of it’s institutions and patriotism. We learned proper history, correct history.
I talk to our youth today and they are totally clueless about what it means to be an American. You ask them something about American history and they have no idea what you are talking about sadly enough. I suppose the fault lies upon all of us, from the history books they read in schools today, teachers and at home with us the parents.?
Americans today are a bunch of spoiled brats. We have had it to easy for way too long, and we have forgotten the generations before us that built America from blood, sweat and tears.
Our youth today has no sence of patriotism. Thanks to the liberal left they are being taught that America is the problems of the world, that capitalism is bad and our forefathers were just rich white slave owners. ?
America isn’t perfect, what nation is?
But America has done more good for the world and mankind than any other nation.
America has saved Europe from tyrants not once but twice (WWI, WWII). We fought a cold war for over five decades against communism. America sent a man to the moon, and America is the first country to help around the globe when their is a natural disaster.
If we want to save this sinking ship we call America we have to do a better job and teach our youth that America is freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. Teach our youth that freedom is special and rare and it’s fragile, it needs production.
We have to go back to teaching our nation’s true history, things like why the pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was and what 30 seconds over Tokyo was about just to name a few.?
In closing I would like to give a special thanks to America’s greatest generation. Your generation saved the world from fascism. Rather you were on the battlefields of Europe, in the south Pacific somewhere, fighting on land, air or sea. Perhaps you were the wife of a serviceman waiting for your sweetheart to come home from war. You all sacrificed so much for freedom. So I want to personally thank you for your sacrifice and your service. Sadly we are losing over 1,500 WWII veterans a day. God bless you and may God bless America.
See you at the polls in November. Let’s take our country back.
Randy Harmon
Farmland
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