A thousand memories are displayed before my tear-filled eyes, captured in photographs of yesteryear and in letters with tattered edges, once held dear.
Beautiful flowers fill this somber chamber, and the mellow music that filters through the walls can barely be heard over echoing sobs that reveal searing pain.
Some brokenhearted stand in clusters embracing one another, while others sit, staring sadly into unanswering space.
My husband and I, entwined tightly together, make our way in procession to do the impossible: to comfort a family in pure agony. As we make our way to the front of the room, we see my gone but unforgettable teacher lying on a bed of down-filled satin.
The sight is heartbreaking, and the pain is unbearable. There are thousands of words in the English language, but not one is magical enough to ease the pain at a time like this. But as we embrace the family, no words are needed, for our shattered hearts embrace, as well.
When a great person dies, they deserve all the reverence due, and a formal expression of praise for all they have done to make the world a better place. Furthermore, they deserve to rest in peace.
What they don’t deserve is to be held in contempt, put on trial, or blamed and disgraced over and over again.
We all have had a once-in-a-lifetime favorite teacher. Mine taught American history, and by taught I mean that he reached into our hearts and minds so deeply that we felt we were there at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, watched the debates at the Constitutional Convention, and stood with Abraham Lincoln to deliver the Gettysburg Address.
We also felt the extreme suffering during the Trail of Tears and the unfathomable horror of the slave trade.
I wish that every American could have been taught our true American history instead of being indoctrinated by those who hold onto pure contempt.
The truth is that America is exceptional. However, our greatness didn’t come from being perfect. We have had massive blunders, similar to other societies, but we had a creed to live up to.
Because our government was based on natural rights and other constitutional principles, each historical blunder comes with a story of redemption.
We abolished the horror of slavery, and redeemed the principle of freedom and justice for all. We have championed civil rights in overcoming segregation and racial discrimination. We have come to respect American Indian cultures and have done very well at assimilating with each other so that we are all one people with rights protected by our Constitution.
We have learned from industrial accidents, military mistakes, and civil unrest. We have always emerged from each crisis with more knowledge of how to do things better, always becoming a brighter beacon of freedom.
This is real success and achievement. It’s the application of values and principles that has always made America exceptional. Our Constitution is at the very root of our greatness.
A new crisis has emerged that is undermining our exceptionalism, for which we need to once again apply our values and principles. The crisis can be described as an assault on our constitutional structure from the establishment ruling caste and government sanctioned technocrats.
The division in our country is deep and serious, and it stems from a battle between two ideological opposite philosophies. One side calls itself “progressive,” yet regresses back into the dark days of tyrannical rule. The other champions the spread of self-evident truths.
The demarcation in ideology falls between those who were taught our true history and those who were indoctrinated against it.
This is not the time for state legislators who proclaim to hold onto the self-evident truths to join forces with the regressive establishment in emitting contempt for our Framers and denying American citizens of their constitutional right to preserve liberty and cast off archaic tyrannical rule.
Who are those who join the establishment to deny you of a primary constitutional right to self-preservation as well as the preservation of liberty?
That would be the John Birch Society, the gaslighting organization that has blatantly failed at holding the federal government in check, yet somehow still proclaims they are the sole arbiter to hold the federal government in check.
I have to shudder at what America will look like at their next 60-year anniversary.
It’s almost as if they want America to fail as much as the modern day left. That would explain why they obstruct the Convention of States. Perhaps, at their core, they hold as much contempt for our Framers and their fellow Americans as the establishment ruling caste.
Pardon my bluntness, but it is high time for the deceitful do-nothing JBS to move over and let the real Americans save our country and allow our Framers--our most inspirational teachers of liberty--to rest in peace.
