As I Watch...

As I watch our country’s colors separate – sadness fills my heart. Remembering my generation as it fades into the past and disappears, but remembering how great our country was then. Our military was broken at Pearl Harbor, at the same time depression still surrounding us. I never seen our flag so united and colorful and flowing; with millions coming to its rescue enlisting into the military, shedding their wants and needs answering the call to their country’s needs to protect us from financial ruin and the destruction of our freedom.
Today I watch a most powerful government and its people caring only about power and money. They even use the symbol bull in their market also the word greed appears more and more. Especially in large corporations who’s CEO’s use to make 50 times that their employees made. But now it’s 500 their pay if not more.
We use to have nations around the world who loved us and our generosity. Now many of our old friends hate us for mostly attacking a country that did not attack us, Iraq.
Now upsetting the world financial market with unwanted control of our security exchange commission.
I can remember during WWII as we fought the Japanese in the pacific, we always had adequate equipment and arms in which to fight our enemies, considering the small military we had at the wars beginning.
I always wondered why our force’s were so inadequately supplied with the proper armor and vehicles which killed many of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially since having the reputation of having the best equipped military in the world.
Why did we violate the Geneva Convention with torture to POW’s? Why did we violate our own constitution by breaking the privacy laws tapping phones? Why did we allow our veterans hospitals to become inadequate for our wounded soldiers returning from the battle field? Why did we not display the caskets of our returning heroes in the news media, were we ashamed of these great men and women?
Another question I always wondered about was why our other troops in Korea, Germany, Philippines, and throughout the world were not being rotated into Iraq and Afghanistan instead of reusing our national guard over and over.
Our American flag seems to only be one color and that is red. This red flag is now going to fade away into Jan. 20, 2009 when our new president takes office.
I hope happiness returns to this old heart of mine and I once again can see the beauty of Old Glory fluttering in the wind as I knew her in the full color she once flowed.
By Jerry Kass