Today I attached a flag pole to display the Stars and Stripes. I’d planned to include my four-year old—we’ve been discussing Memorial Day and the soldiers who gave, and give, us freedom. Morning plans morphed into other activities and I put the flag up with my daughter busy inside the house. She saw it immediately and pounded on a window to congratulate her dad on a job well done.
Just a few minutes ago she looked out the window and said, “Daddy, I love your soldiers. They can beat all the big monsters…”
I told her they were all of our soldiers and, “That’s why we put the flag up—”
“I didn’t put the flag up,” she said, “…I was eating chocolate chip cookies.”
Politicians, did you hear how not to take credit for something that you didn’t do? Did you feel the honesty and affection and confidence in those little sentences? Did you hear a love of country in a four-year-old? Textbook publishers, is it okay that she understands America is exceptional before she learns about a multitude of other cultures?
Politicians and educationalists alike, you must understand that the fundamentally transformative cultures you wish upon my daughter had to be saved from all the big monsters of the 20th century…by the soldiers my daughter loves…by all of our soldiers.
Remember to consider this, today of all days; that if you make us what the others have been, who will save my daughter from all the big monsters of the 21st century?
Phil, it is wonderful that you are teaching your four year old Love of Country. May we leave for them the Country our parents left us.
ReplyDeleteLove our Soldiers our Heroes. God Bless and God Bless America.