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My Oath to Serve
Views: 1,305Added: Sun. Aug 02, 2009 11:35am
Posted in: Veterans
One of the most memorable moments of my life was taking the oath to enter military service. As I stood there echoing the words, it really sank in that I was swearing to defend the constitution of the United States and it's citizens. What an honor was bestowed upon me. No matter what menial job I was asked to do, I was proud.
But now, I feel a great frustration. In my life I have watched as America has begun the slide down the slippery slope of decay and loss of sovereignty.
Once, it meant something to be a citizen of our great nation. We had rights and privileges that gave us great pride and security. Even one citizen that found themselves trapped in some foreign country new that our government would make every effort to rescue us. We had services and endowments that showed the world that we took care of our own. We prided ourselves in education and knew that our news media was fair and reporters would risk life and limb to bring us the true facts, and report them in an unbiased way that allowed us to make intelligent decisions based on truisms and facts.
However in this time when our borders are little more than lines on the map and coming here is as simple as slipping in during the dark of night, and unimportant superfulous chatter fills our news desk, I am terribly frustrated about where we are headed.
Few ever even mention the word citizen anymore because the importance of the word has wained away possibly to the point of no return.
Many of our citizens are imprisioned in far away lands. We have lawless thugs coming across our southern borders harrassing and even kidnapping Americans, and even members of our own military are being held captive and killed to publisize others dubious goals. While our Special Forces are stymied by our own leaders.
Our own elderly citizens are being ignored in our hospitals while illegal immagents are flooding our health care and social service systems. Creating a great overburden that we must foot the bill for.
Many of our youth have become so confused that they see prison as a rite of passage, instead of the correction that it was designed for. It has become more popular to be a thug than to enlist and serve your country.
Our judges, Lawyers, and polititions have lost all credability in their lust for monitary gain, and have become untrustworthy idiots who seem to have lost all sense of fairness and equity.
Our news media have become prostitutes to the headline grabbing story of the day. Selling out the important facts and going for the entertainment value that will please the shallow minds that seem to rule our daily lives. Giving us glitter instead of substance so that we may live our lives in a fantasy of American greatness.
I came from a generation that believed that one person could make a difference. However, it will take much more than one old man who is in a demographic that has no voice in a youth oriented world to bring back the pride and belonging to our great nation.
I wonder, do others who took this oath of protecting our freedoms feel the same anger and frustration that I do. Do they still feel the pride when they recite the Pledge of alliegence to our nation. Or, do they bow to the pressure of pollitical correctness and fear the repercussions of acting like a proud American CITIZEN.
I pray that all who took these oaths will rise to the call and help right the upside down society that we now live in through the peacful and efficiant system that our inspired forefathers set out for us and use it to inspire a new generation to see our country once again as, "One Nation Under God".
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Sassy
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Posted 5:23pm August 6th, 2009I admire you for writing this.
It is time we all stood up and woke up and started to be the American people we know in our hearts we need to be.
If we could all just get over our greed and get back to sharing and caring for one another .
I pray to God it's not too late for us as a nation, to turn this insanity around .
We should be ashamed of what is going on in our country.
The only ones that can change it is us!
I thank you for serving our country so proudly.
May God Bless and keep us a Nation Under God.
Sassy
ramblinfever
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Posted 5:30pm August 5th, 2009For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the
victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
-- 1 John 5:4
This is the companion passage to 1 John 2:17 -- "The world and
its desires are passing away, but the one who does the will of God
lives forever." Our destiny and future are not limited to the
boundaries of existence tied to our little blue planet. Our future
and our hope burst the boundaries of mortality and are tied to our
faith in a resurrected and victorious Savior who is coming back to
bring us to his eternal home. This faith is displayed by doing
God's will even when most in our contemporary culture choose to
chase what is fleeting and transient.
One of our former presidents once said, "When we no longer see ourselves as "One Nation Under God", we will be a nation gone under." When we allow our focus to fall on all the things that are wrong in our country, it's easy to become frustrated & hardened. The antidote is to keep our focus on the One Who is truly sovereign - the One Who holds our real victory in His nail scarred hands - Jesus! Keep looking up, my brother, He's coming soon!
Ginger!
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Posted 10:46pm August 2nd, 2009BRAVO!!!!
But why limit those who rise to the call to only the ones who are or were in the military? EVERY American should be standing up for their country and saying 'we've had enough!'
Thank you for this wonderful blog, but mostly thank you for your service and dedication to our country. God bless you, sir.
Ginger!