[PRCo] FW: This was America!

[Jerry MATT Matsick]

 This was America. I wondered what happened to it.
> What a difference 60 years makes!!! 
> 
> I know everyone has a different opinion on the war and our current 
> President. But, this article makes a lot of sense, and I hope you will take 2 minutes 
> and read it and give it some thought. I have never seen the 'situation' 
> expressed any better in words! Recently I was talking to a friend about the 
> upcoming election and the candidates. As we ended our discussion he said 'the only 
> decision you have to make is who you want sitting in that seat in the White 
> House when - not if - when we get hit again and millions of American lives 
> are put at risk!' 
> 
> This is from: 'You ain't gonna like losing.' Author unknown. 
> 
> President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism. But the 
> mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq 
> 
> Bush's mistake came in his belief that this country is the same one his 
> father fought for in WWII. It is not. 
> 
> Back then, they had just come out of a vicious depression. The country was 
> steeled by the hardship of that depression, but they still believed fervently 
> in this country. They knew that the people had elected their leaders, so it 
> was the people's duty to back those leaders. 
> 
> Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together, rallied behind, 
> and stuck with their leaders, whether they had voted for them or not or 
> whether the war was going badly or not. 
> 
> And war was just as distasteful and the anguish just as great then as it is 
> today. Often there were more casualties in one day in WWII than we have had 
> in the entire Iraq war. But that did not matter. The people stuck with the 
> President because it was their patriotic duty. Americans put aside their 
> differences in WWII and worked together to win that war. 
> 
> Everyone from every strata of society, from young to old pitched in. Small 
> children pulled little wagons around to gather scrap metal for the war effort. 
> Grade school students saved their pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to 
> help the effort. 
> 
> Men who were too old or medically 4 F lied about their age or condition 
> trying their best to join the military. Women doubled their work to keep things 
> going at home. Harsh rationing of everything from gasoline to soap, to butter 
> was imposed, yet there was very little complaining. 
> 
> You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the President. 
> Interestingly enough in those days there were no fat cat actors and entertainers 
> who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators of hostile countries and 
> complain to them about our President. Instead, they made upbeat films and 
> entertained our troops to help the troops' morale. And a bunch even enlisted. 
> 
> And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the day off with a 
> Pledge of Allegiance and with prayers for our country and our troops! 
> 
> Back then, no newspaper would have dared point out certain weak spots in our 
> cities where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum damage.. No 
> newspaper would have dared complain about what we were doing to catch spies. 
> 
> A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had complained 
> that German or Japanese soldiers were being 'tortured' by being forced to wear 
> women's underwear, or subjected to interrogation by a woman, or being scared 
> by a dog or did not have air conditioning. 
> 
> There were a lot of things different back then. We were not subjected to a 
> constant bombardment of pornography, perversion and promiscuity in movies or 
> on radio. We did not have legions of crack heads, dope pushers and armed gangs 
> roaming our streets. 
> 
> No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of terrorism. He 
> made the mistake of believing that we still had the courage and fortitude of 
> our fathers. He believed that this was still the country that our fathers 
> fought so dearly to preserve. 
> 
> It is not the same country. It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorra and 
> the land of Oz. We did unite for a short while after 9/11, but our attitude 
> changed when we found out that defending our country would require some 
> sacrifices. 
> 
> We are in great danger. The terrorists are fanatic Muslims. They believe 
> that it is okay, even their duty, to kill anyone who will not convert to Islam. 
> It has been estimated that about one third or over three hundred million 
> Muslims are sympathetic to the terrorists cause... Hitler and Tojo combined did 
> not have nearly that many potential recruits. So... We either win it - or lose 
> it - and you ain't gonna like losing. 
> 
> America is not at war. The military is at war. 
> America is at the mall. 

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>From the RIVER CITY by the Sea! 
Jerry "Matt" Matsick 
J A C K S O N V I L L E, Florida !