Like Rip Van Winkle, those of us who have been around for awhile, grew up in a different era with different values such as grace, manners, virtue and honor, wonder what happened to that world.
Liberty was something we experienced, and didn't feel the need to talk about it.
Fear was not a national emotion. We went to war in 1941 after we were attacked,
not just because we might be.
Congress declared wars, made laws and levied taxes, not the executive branch.
How did the president get so much power?
To find out what had happened or might happen we read newspapers, listened to the radio or even TV. We trusted the veracity of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite even Walter Winchell, CBS and NBC. Now we don't trust the media which is managed and manipulated to spoon feed us drivel and lies.
This is not a treatise on nostalgia. It is a lament on the disappearance of real freedom representative government, common held virtuous values and individualism.
Presidents Day [yesterday] is nothing more than an excuse to give government employees and bankers a day off. We do not celebrate the heroes who have honored the President's office--they are gone and their messages to us are largely forgotten.
With Love and Kindness,
THE HATMAN
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