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What does America mean to you?
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GMN":3nfvq8x3 said:What does America mean to you?
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Jim, I have the same opinion. The freedoms that I used to be so thankful for have been lost or watered down. The worst part of it is that the young moderns don't have a clue.Jim62":1i1kfyp5 said:Sadly, it doesn't mean the same thing now as it did 50 years ago.....
I hope we'll be able to get it turned around pretty soon.
backhoeboogie":1u6a1sa5 said:Jim, Ryder,
And it is not the big things either. It is all the little freedoms. For instance I am hording light bulbs. We use the high efficiency ones for practically everything but I need the old fashion type in the well house during winter. They have now been outlawed.
Jogeephus":27jkksct said:backhoeboogie":27jkksct said:Jim, Ryder,
And it is not the big things either. It is all the little freedoms. For instance I am hording light bulbs. We use the high efficiency ones for practically everything but I need the old fashion type in the well house during winter. They have now been outlawed.
Does this make you a criminal?
GMN":1iwttjfs said:What does America mean to you?
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GMN":2a6x642f said:I was thinking along the lines of Apple pie, cookouts, baseball games, the all American things that us Americans do.
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gimpyrancher":14prgtz8 said:I guess the answer depends on who you are and how it was "back then." If you were any minority or poor, those were not good times. If you were a woman trying to support a family, it wasn't good. If you were a legal immigrant, you might have been rounded up and imprisoned. Martin Luther King didn't fight just for African Americans, he also fought for the equal rights of the poor. In the timeframe of 'Nam, most injured soldiers died of their wounds. Now most are saved and returning disabled because of improved healthcare in the field and because of body armor. Remember how it was reported as to how we treated our disabled Vets at Walter Reed Hospital just last year? Would those brave men and woman feel it's better now than it "used to be?" Being disabled isn't the problem, it's lack of access to any real quality of life. Are most of the disabled vets able to go to these 4th of July celebrations? The "modern" and current answer is no. I know that for my 4th, and the fourth for many disabled vets, I've pledged to continue to fight this domestic war. Seems to me the good 'ol days of past depends on who you were/are.