"I AM A BAD AMERICAN"

I do not know who wrote this.  I repeat it here because I agree with it. I do not want anyone to give me credit for it's content but I do want you to enjoy as I did.  Here goes:
"I'm a bad American.>I am the liberal-progressive's worst nightmare. >I believe in God.>I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family.>I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, nor does it entitle you to anything.>I have never owned a slave, was a slave, never burned a witch at the stake and was never persecuted by the Turks.  Neither were you so shut-up already.>If you were born here and don't like it you're free to leave and become a citizen of whatever communist nation will have you.>If you don't like the way things are here go back and try to change your own country.  We like America the way it is.>I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God whenever and wherever they want to.>I believe that cops have a right to pull you over if you're breaking the law regardless of what color you are.>I believe that owning a gun makes you a smart American.  I own two.>I,m proud that 'In God We Trust' is written on our money.>I'd like to know exactly what church the Reverend Jesse Jackson belongs to, who pays him/ and why he's always a part of the problem and never offers a solution.>I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac do it in English.>I believe that illegal is illegal.  Enough said.>I believe that Americans should work.  Get a job.>I believe that we should all work hard - this means you too Mr. President.>I believe that the American Flag is the only one that should be allowed in America.>If all of that makes me a bad American --I'm ok with that.  I'm just sayin......Medicineman!

"THE FORGOTTEN LOGIC OF THE FIRST AMMENDMENT"

The book NO LIBERTY FOR LICENSE was written by David Lowenthal a few years ago and published in 1997.  The book is well worth the reading of every American just to remind us of what has happened and will continue to happen to the founder's ideas put forth in the 1st Ammendment.
In the conclusion to his writing is the following: The renewal we need must be moral, rational, and spiritual all at once.  The incentive for it can be furnished not by some artificial vision of America's future but by the memory of her past.  We have allowed ourselves to be pulled from our natural moorings and now live immersed in a world artificially molded by technological advances and the mass media.  A sierra Club that brings us back occasionally to the natural wilds is not enough.  It is in the texture of our every day lives that we must attempt to regain the marvelous simplicity that was ours for so long.  It is in cultivating the memory of our past---our great accomplishments as a nation, our outstanding individuals, our pious, sober, and loving families, our great authors and artists, our active industries, our music, folk and popular---that we can best keep from being engulfed by the present and renew our democratic humanity in the highest sense.  Whether or not this can be done we do not know, but whoever finds practical ways of doing it will earn the eternal gratitude of his countrymen, and the world besides.  We have perhaps been the most forward-looking nation: now we must look backward, regaining the past for the present, in order to be able to look forward well again...........Medicineman!

DECEMBER 7, 1941, "A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY"

The sneak attack on U.S. Naval Fleet in the Pacific was supposed to so damage the United States that Japan would "own" the Pacific with it's rich supply of oil and minerals which Japan sorely needed.
Although the damage was extensive and the loss of life, some 2,400 souls, a tremendous blow, the Japanese failed to trap our Air Craft Carriers at Pearl.  It would prove to be their downfall.
Mitsue Fuchida was General Commander of the Air Squadron and led the attack on Pearl Harbor and the man whoi radioed the message to the Jap fleet, "Toro-Toro-Toro mission successful".
The end of the war marked the end of  Fuchida's military career.  Though he was never charged with war crimes he was called several times to testify.  One day as he stepped off a train he was handed a pamphlet entitled "I was a prisoner of Japan" by a man named Jacob DeShazer.  Jacob was a soldier on KP duty in California when he heard the news of Pearl Harbor.  A month later he volunteered for Col. Doolittle's raid on Japan.  He became a prisoner when his plane ran out of fuel over China and they landed in Jap territory.  He spent 40 long months in prison and while there became a Christian, and when he was released, a missionary to Japan where he handed that tract to Fuchida, a Buddhist, who began reading the bible and became a Christian.......Medicineman!

RUDE AND CRUDE VERSUS NICE AND NEAT!

Today's continuous, repetitive, often boring and untrue news (so called) seems to home in on President Trump's sometimes, "rude and crude", behavior.  Granted, he is often quick with the remarks better left unsaid.  He often violates the first rule of politics, ie, Never be defensive, stay on the offense!  But, he does get things done!
When President Lincoln called on General Grant to lead the Army of the Republic he was advised by many to not use this man who drank too much and presented a sloppy demeanor.  "Why he even wore a private's top coat and no starred epaulets!"  Lincoln's reply was, "I need this man---he fights".  Where would we have been without leaders in our wars like "Teddy" Roosevelt, "Black Jack" Pershing, MacArthur, Patton and "Chesty" Puller?  Out of step with the "nice" guys sometimes, but they got the job done..........Medicineman!