If an assault on our lawmakers
were to take place as it did, it is interesting that the tragic and bold
assault took place on Flag Day. Every year on June 14 we celebrate a day to
recognize the symbol of our freedom by honoring our flag. Currently if you
cross the George Washington Bridge in New York you will see a unique national
treasure. Hanging from the highest part of the bridge is the world’s largest
American Flag. It is so big that it is sixty feet wide, ninety feet long and it
weighs 450 pounds. Flag Day was established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916
but not declared an official holiday until 1949. Flag Day has a personal
meaning for a living World War II Marine Corps Veteran, Gerald Goldman who at
94 years old still crafts wooden hanging flag plaques and distributes them to
friends and neighbors and in shops because he is proud of our country and flag
no matter what. In his neighborhood most homes display his wooden flag plaques.
He and his crafts are a part of American history.
America is a very different place
now in a very cold and indifferent world. We have a sixteen year war going on
in the Middle East and then we wonder why people there no longer have food,
water and a place to live anymore. While the men play their very damaging and
reckless war games that destroy everyone’s lives it is the humanity that
suffers. The rest of the world is closing their doors to hungry poor refugees from
war torn places. There is an entire generation of children now in their teens
and twenties who are fed up with the war that has killed their parents and all
who they know who feel the need to be a random terrorist anywhere in the free
world. They target anywhere westerners are having fun. Rock concerts, events,
famous places and night clubs. War does not create heroes anymore but crazy
snipers troll the earth randomly bombing themselves and all who we cherish.
Republican members of Congress
were under attack like sitting ducks in a carnival shooting game being shot at but these were real bullets. Why were these
very important men out in the open air and not practicing their game in a
secure stadium? No one is safe anymore from random gun fire especially the
controversial lawmakers in Washington. These are the very same men who voted to
allow the mentally ill to have guns in their possession yet they voted down
programs to properly medicate the mentally disturbed population or even house
them in secure institutions. This gunman was living out of his car and was a
very angry man. The Republicans were at a baseball practice for a charity
baseball game they were participating in. The House Majority Leader Steve Scalice
was critically wounded from bullets to his hip. He is the third most powerful
Republican in our government. He is the only one there that had two security
persons with him who took the gunman down with just their service hand guns
meanwhile the crazed gunman had an automatic war style weapon. If Scalice was
not there there would have been no protection and probably they would have all
died hiding in a dugout behind a open air chain link fence that school children
often play baseball in this type of field.
Trump asked and got 59 million
more dollars for the military spending. Our boys better practice their games
behind the doors of secured stadiums and spend some of that money for all their
security needs. Our town halls are full of angry citizens who have had enough
of those careless leader’s lies. Should they try to murder them? NO But the
attitude better change to a more moderate and bi-partisan mood on Capitol Hill
and get the American people proud and happy in this country again. Even the
mentally ill men with semi-automatic weapons!
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