Pearl Harbor Remembered

[P5se Camelback]

I apologize to all ... I believe it was I who triggered this whole political discussion by posting a phonetic representation of the language I hear every day, and shake my head in sadness.

I am "up to here" with the changes that I've been witnessing, probably because I was not all that good of a student in high school ...

... flunked 9th grade, took it over again ...
... went to summer school to pass 10th grade ...
... was a perfect 100% five-out-of-five "F's" after the report card of 11th grade ...
... quite high school, worked as a baker's apprentice for the rest of the year ...
... was sent by my parents to a Private Parochial College Prep school to re-take 11th grade ...
... only passed one subject ...
... started 11th grade for the 3rd time back in public school (Dad made me beg the Principal to let me come back ...
... graduated high school the last name in a class of 268 with three D's and a F ...
... was kicked out of Art class for aguing with the teacher about how to draw a circle) ...
... did Fresshman year at Phialdelphia College of Art, partying my way to a GPA of 1.25 ...
... got drafted ... did 4 years in the Army Security Agency (Top Secret and Crypto Security Clearance) ...
... went back to PCA ... majored in Industrial design ... graduated at the very top (first name) of my class with a BSID.

I have been self-educating myself now, studying this country's history (from old books, not the new ones which have re-written history) and have become fairly knowledgable on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and I'm now in my third reading of the Federalist Papers in as many years.

What gets me upset is how far we have been getting from the Constitution ... farther and farther over the last ten years ... it's angering to me and it appears to me, as a student of the history of this country, that we are headed in the wrong direction, especially over the past two year, with an apparent game plan straight from the pages of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals (Yes, I've read it twice.)

But I wish to end this discussion with this ...

Many men and women have died in the defense of the Inalienable Rights given us by our Creator, and the Freedoms granted us by the documents that we were we given by our Founding Fathers to help us govern ourselves as a Free People. I don't wish to see that ultimate sacrifice to have been given in vain.

Now let's leave this for another time and get back to discussing model railroading ... as Don ezdays said ... it's too easy for this topic to get nasty!

I apologize for setting it off.

I'm sorry!