THE DRAFT!

The United States left Viet Nam in 1975 after spending our youth and dollars, a little at a time, and promptly put an end to the Draft.  Oh, by the way, we won the war in Nam and lost it in the news papers.
But the point of this missive is to convey to all my belief in the "Draft", Universal Military Training, if you will.  Since we, as a nation, did away with the Draft in favor of an all volunteer army look at what has happened to our youth.
So many of our young people have no discipline, no direction, no drive to succeed and no pride in self.  I maintain that two years of service in the military will produce a much different citizen than we see on the streets of many of our cities today.  The services instill a sense of pride in self and purpose in life. 
There are many things they can do in service to their country that do not require them to carry a weapon.  In the years of the "Great Depression", the 30's, the Civilian Conservation Corps, better known as the CCC was formed to clean up public parks, build camp sites, build roads and many other public facilities.
The point of all this is to teach our young people that there is more to life than just "hanging around" or "shooting a few baskets" or "snorting coke".  What a waste!.....Medicineman!

1st AMMENDMENT TOOK ANOTHER HIT!

For several days now the President has been attacked by the networks journalists (so called) for what happened in Charlottesville even after he has made the same statement over and over.
Was it a bad thing that happened?  Yes!  Has he said so? Yes! Now let's see if we can make some sense out of it.
The city decided to move the statues.  Some citizens thought it was a bad idea.  A group made up of KKK, White Supermen and others who opposed the move got a permit to "Peacefully Assemble".  Another group (who had no permit) confronted them in the street and the fight began.  Oh, and by the way, that bunch carried clubs.
You may ask, "Where were the police?"  Out manned, or something like that, was the excuse used to explain their actions (or lack of).  The "Main stream" press missed most of what I just pointed out!....Medicineman!

PHYSICS, LAW OF!

You remember High School Physics.  Everybody took it and some even remembered the basics.  For instance; What goes up must come down; Objects fall at a fixed rate of speed; Every action has a reaction, etc.
Let's talk about the action and reaction. The City Council in Charlottesville, VA decided to move monuments to Confederate heroes from the dedicated ground where they had stood for about 150 years to some other place (perhaps out of the way).  While it may have been a sound decision at the time the results were not so sound.  Many of the folks took umbrage to the idea and the word spread.  We saw the results in the streets of Charlottesville the other night.
This country was torn by Civil War and nearly destroyed and Americans fought on both sides for what they believed.  Both were led by great men who deserve their place in history.
We must teach our children the true history of how this country came to be or we can never survive the kind of street war we are exposed to more and more frequently!........Medicineman!

KOREA-------AGAIN!

Here it is ---back again.  Perhaps it never left?
When WWII ended we owned all of Korea.  Taken from the Japs who had been there some 200 years with their boot heal on their throats.  What did we do? We gave half of it to Stalin along with Manchuria (after he declared war on Japan a week before the surrender) and put the divider at the 38th parallel.  It was right back there again in 1953 after we lost some 35,000 men and another 8,000 plus MIA.
Now we have the offspring of the madman who was there in the '50's blowing his fireworks for all the world to see and begging for a fight.  South Korea is in pretty good shape to handle that "Idiot" close in and if he sends one our way put his lights out---what few they have up there.  Don't send our team back in that "Hell-Hole"!..........Medicineman!I