Although still recovering from his injuries overseas, Sgt. Sanchez insisted on leaving his electric wheelchair to walk the flag down Main Street, U.S.A., saying “If it’s for the colors, I’ll walk”
Trained from Birth
I was born at a time when freedom was honored, Back in those days, Parents and Teachers actually taught; I just don’t know how things got twisted around, I weep and I mourn for our culture of leeches, Oh people, my friends, don’t you see what’s going on; Hear me and break free; please open your hearts,
Trained from birth to be a productive adult,
Emotive and intuitive, pensive and strong,
With many gifts and talents, among them, the gift of thought.
We learned how to read, how to interpret and think,
To see life’s difficulties as training for coming events,
Fodder for the cut and paste adventures in Life.
And comfort and ease became watch words and goals,
Is nothing worth working toward, nothing innately prized,
And what about morality – Is it all about fast pleasure?
Unwilling to work – unable to dream,
But able to kill, to rape, and to languish
Without a purpose, without goals, without freedom.
Don’t you feel the manacles tighten with each handout received?
Don’t you sense the great insult: always underestimated,
Coddled and indulged as lies wrap around and around?
To think for yourselves as the valued creations you are;
Yes, masterpieces of ability and bundles of talent,
Nobility untried awaiting Truth to break you free.
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Amazing post and oh so true! It’s a shame how things have changed!
Thank you, friend! We CAN change it for the better, if we choose to … but it will not be easy.
So true! Change is never easy, it comes from dreaming for change, hard work, dedication and sacrifice. Change may not be easy but it is worth the journey to make it happen!
Preach it every place you gi!!! 🙂
My brothers were into planes especially Naval planes. They had them hanging all over their ceiling. Looking back it was really great. Once they got older it was the heroes of baseball and football. Never a criminal.
For a large segment of society, the goal is gangster! Everyone packs illegal weapons & the more rules they break the more “respect” they supposedly earn. It’s backwards!
Just the movies and lifestyles that they see is disgusting. All the gangster music is about kiling and smoking dope. I can’t imagine any singer would want their children listening to these songs. How do they plan to have their children come up as anything but a ganster? Why do parents buy the “gold grills” that these idiots wear? When a child can lose his/her life over a pair of sneakers, that is really sad? The first step in the spreading the wealth around. I am glad I have lived when I have. Sad that we are regressing. Soon we will be like the heathens we hate.
There’s a KMart commercial I HATE – it shows 2-3 young kids, like 10-ish, talking gangsta about their clothes etc … Is this the goal of their ambition? UGH!!!
Your talking about the commercial about the hoodie. They talk like they are down in the hood. Maybe K-Mart only wants to sell the hoodies to those in the hoods!
Their speech is really gangester. When I hear on of the kids talk on TV shows I have to turn the channel because I can’t understand them. Who is going to hire these gangster wannabes? God bless
The change could come quicker if todays “stars” would push the work ethic. Our kids need to have “Stars” that are proud of the USA and have a moral compass.
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Reblogged this on PUMABydesign001's Blog and commented:
I only wish that we had millions more like this young man.
Excellent post.
Btw, I nominated you for the Most Influential Blogger Award. It is well-deserved, http://pumabydesign001.com/2013/07/29/most-influential-blogger-award-my-nominations-and-the-rules/.
Aw Thank you very much, puma! I appreciate all you do, too!
Good message in your piece.
~Chris
Thank you kindly! I appreciate you coming by!