It was nice seeing the pictures of all my friends’ dads honoring their military service on Facebook on Veterans Day. My dad was a Marine. All through his life you could tell it was the most transformative thing he ever did — a constant source of pride. The values of his generation are lost on the self-absorbed, woke generation of today.
My last uniformed service was Webelos, and I am not sure if I quit or was asked to leave. This makes me value even more the service of our veterans, who fought for freedom and self-reliance. Many made the ultimate sacrifice. They fought to stop this country from turning into exactly what it has now become.
Maybe there is an unseen longing for freedom in America. “Yellowstone,” the number-one show on TV, has been outed as having undertones of “conservative” messaging. I guess Kevin Costner now has so much money that he can afford to be outed as right-of-center in Hollywood. The smash TV show has defied Hollywood’s predictably woke agenda by appealing to Americans’ frontier nature.
What kids know of the frontier West is limited. The National Park Service has allowed hunters to kill about 1,000 buffalo to stem overcrowding. Lefties in big cities were upset. They virtue-signaled by mounting protests demanding that hunters stop killing buffalo and serving their wings at sports bars like Hooters.