I know you all are saying, "yeah but you live in the South" and this is truly an on-going joke for many subjects education, hair, speech, weird happenings, etc... but one thing you can't beat anywhere else in the United States of America is the total patriotism of these parts.
First offf you might say, well of course their patriotic many of them still fly the Confederate flag on their cars, houses and clothing. This is true, they do come across as a blood thirsty bunch. But here's the only up side to this fact, they are very dedicated people. they are goingto fight for the honor of all fallen soldiers. Yes, they were wrong about the 400 years of slave trading and owning, and you'll find many a ignorant people still wishing they had thier own country (I'm still baffled by this), but this dedication to honoring soldiers has become a way of life for most . We'll call it a deep sense of sincere graditude.
Back to present day, about 3/4 of all troops and bases are down in the southern regions of the U.S., and most people who live down here have close relatives who are life long military folks. The average person up North does not. Take our family for instance, niether on our mom's side nor our dad's side do we have anyone who even signed up for the reserves. And we've have had many a males pass through the family gene pool lately.On Joe's side the closest thing we have to a military guy is the husband of his cousin who is in the Resereves.
The south's patriotism can't be beat.
They still hold parades for our troops, meet them at airports to send them off or greet them coming home. They are dediated to the cause. when their loved one dies in war there is no media griping and I hate Bush speech. They are true military famlies, honoring their dead soldier with a clear focus on what they died for. Do they agree with the war? Who knows. Did they vote for Bush twice? I don't know, but I do know that neither of those questions are relevant to the support of their soldier. We get so focused on our own lives and expectations of what a war should be, we forget to honor our troops with 100% of ourselves, being thankful and respectful for what they do to keep us in our home safely. I guess paying a soldier ture tibute means being a lot more self-less like they are, and have to be, at war.
I'm going to go to a prade this 4th of July and just blend in this year, because if the South does anything right, they certainly support thier families in arms with as much honor and respect that they can give, and that folks, is more than anyone who doesn't live down here will ever know or experience!
3 comments:
whooo-rah La-Shay. I love this post. I am piggy backing this same topic on my blog today
I agree. Good blog. At some graduation parties that I went to I asked several young men if they had any interest in joining the service and they all said no. I asked a father of three boys who was a christian and he said that he did not want his boys going in the service.Young men were getting blown up with them IED's.I don't get it. They want someone else to do it.
This war against our enemy, Islam fascism, is only one of many for which our soldiers have bled and died. Actually, our independence day is about more than that. It's what our founding fathers did in breaking away from the Mother land. (take note adriel) They developed one of the best ways of governing ever invented... by the people... for the people.
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