When those in government mismanage, misappropriate and generally misuse their office, we howl about how such behaviors will burden our children and grandchildren.
But that attitude, no matter how noble it seems, only perpetuates misconduct instead of stifling it.
What we forget is that WE are someone’s children and grandchildren and it was OUR future that was once the stimulus for liberty.
When your parents or grandparents fought at el Alamein, Normandy, Sicily, Okinawa, Bataan or Guadalcanal – Pusan, Inchon or across the 38th Parallel, along the Cambodian border, the outskirts of Saigon, mired in the Mekong Delta or the flaming oil fields of Kuwait – do you think they were fighting and bleeding and dying for the America we have TODAY?
When the Founding Fathers jeopardized not only their lifestyles but their lives to challenge the most powerful nation in the world, do you think THIS is the America they were trying to create?
When Abraham Lincoln took this country to war against itself in order to preserve it, is THIS what he was saving it for?
When Jack Kennedy went eyeball to eyeball with Khrushchev and did not blink, could he have imagined that the next great threat to American society would come from within the same Oval Office from which he ordered the Cuban Blockade?
When Ronald Reagan stood up against The Evil Empire, do you think he would stand for the government we now have?
When Martin Luther King, Jr was marching, preaching, protesting and, ultimately, dying on a motel balcony, can you honestly say that he would thank God Almighty that our nation today is “Free at last, free at last?”
It is fine and just and correct for us to leave a bright, free and prosperous future for future generations. But we MUST remember that we are not growing our democracy for later enjoyment. Those seeds and seedlings were planted long ago.
We are, instead, responsible for nurturing what has been sown. Unless we are diligent stewards of that left in our care, there is no future for the future.
Whoaaaaaa Mr. Spy, you nailed it Sir.
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