Save America

December 16, 2009 By Save America

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Mark Levin speaks with passion discussing the current state of America turning into a destitute welfare state before our eyes. A Congress that is out of control with its spending and the soft rise of tyranny.  Ronald Reagan understood how socialism would slowly, but steadily creep into society and that  government managed health care was a traditional means of stealthily supplanting socialism into society.

Wake up, this is our society. It’s our turn to defend our country with the means afforded to us in the Constitution.  To be an American is to cradle American values in your heart and the first to be a deep love of liberty. Liberty means freedom and we should fight for this freedom to have full political agency. We must always fight for this freedom, to fight for what we feel is right, and not be told how to live our lives, or have choices taken from us, or have our choices made for us, by restrictive laws, regulations and government.

I was thinking today of something I remembered in Ronald Reagan’s farewell speech, so I went and read it.  Here are a few excerpts and with application will renew the great love of country President Reagan inspired across this great land. I hope tonight when you look across your own table and think about your families future, you’ll remember these great words:

And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America.

We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn’t get these things from your family, you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed, you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture.

The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that, too, through the mid-sixties.

So, we’ve got to teach history based not on what’s in fashion but what’s important--why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant. You know, 4 years ago on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father, who’d fought on Omaha Beach. Her name was Lisa Zanatta Henn, and she said, “We will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did.”

Well, let’s help her keep her word. If we forget what we did, we won’t know who we are. I’m warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let’s start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.

And let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen, I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven’t been teaching you what it means to be an American, let ‘em know and nail ‘em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.