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Dec 21, 2003 Thursday of last week three friends got together for lunch, Peter, Christa and Myself. We weren’t going to see each other again until after the Holidays, We decided to splurge and have one of those elaborate lunches you can’t get at McDonald’s. You’ll see how this is important later in this article. We are all moderately conservative. By conservative I mean we subscribe to the premise everyone should contribute to the good of the community. Everyone who is capable should provide for their own sustenance. We weren’t pounding nails in trees, setting suv’s on fire, burning bras or anything like that. We where having lunch enjoying each others company. We where delighted Saddam was in custody. Of course we would like to see bin Laden in the cell next to him, that will happen someday soon we hope. We felt despite the Liberal rhetoric the war on terror is going well. We felt President Bush is doing an outstanding job protecting America from terrorists despite his dissenters. The subject got around to Christmas how it is being denigrated by Liberals. We wondered what this does to children, what the effect is on them. How does a child cope with the uncertainties created by those who appose and interfere in their traditions. Christa recalled the Christmas Eve she was ten. She and her Sisters where huddled in a bomb shelter beneath the city of Berlin, Germany. American Planes where on their way to drop bombs on them. Several smaller planes preceded the bombers dropping flares that lit up the night sky. They dropped foil strips also to miss-direct and confuse the German Radar. She recalled looking sky-word thinking how exciting it was, the lights reflecting on the foil strips as they gently floated to the ground. How colorful they seemed. It would be the only Christmas decoration she and her sisters would see that year. As I listened I wondered, a child sees the beauty of Christmas in such dangerous conditions. while others see the danger of Christmas and no beauty. Peter remembered and smiled, he was several blocks away waiting for the American bombers to come and leave. That same Christmas Eve I spent directing (for a fee), American Sailors to the local Bordello. Respectable work at the time for a young man of twelve in the part of the world. I come from a small Village in Central American. >br> We agreed how fortunate we where to be given the opportunity and the privilege of enjoying and being able to afford such a fine lunch. Only in the home of the brave and the land of the free is this possible. You see we know what it’s like to live under the thumb of Despots and Dictators. We have lived with and without freedom. Believe us my friends the price people must pay for the privilege a free society is worth every effort. Some know this instinctively, some never learn. Let’s hope those who know will always out number those who never learn. Peter is worried America will become what Nazi Germany was from the middle 1930’s until the war ended in 1945. A nation divided by political discontent. He hears the same harsh tones with different words. I assured him it could never happen in America. I tell you as I told him. Were not a tribal people, were a Nation of Mongrels. We come from ever country, every religious and every ethnic background known to man. When they attack one of us, they attack all of us. By the grace of God and mans desire to remain free, America will survive the attempts of Liberalization. These are my opinions, You form your own ! MARRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL. May the Star of Bethlehem shine brightly on our Troops around the World this Christmas Eve. Let us pray Wise Men will come to gather to proclaim Peace on Earth, Good Will to all Mankind. ------------ About the Author: Ken Hughes is a retired businessman. A political junkie who's passion is the re-education of Liberals and Term Limits for Congress. He has had very little sucess at either. Email Ken Hughes: uncleken@wwnet.net Comment on this column in the forum. Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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