That night, we all put the “We” right back in “We the People.” We were Americans that night, and we remembered…our country and each other. That feeling carried through for me all the way to this day, 42 years later. In that tiny victory that might seem insignificant now, we found a moment of warmth, an accomplishment of pride to talk about.
A moment of greatness…of refusal to be beaten. I’m weeping now as I write these words, thinking of the moment. Many flags came out, and this went on for at least a half an hour, unabated. Everyone…strangers on the street, and even the cops…celebrating and hugging one another. Cars and traffic were stopped, and hundreds of vehicles were honking their horns. When we won?Įverybody in that restaurant emptied out into the streets. I was in a restaurant eating pizza with my father and uncle after a wrestling match. And “those amateurs” won it big, plain and simple. The semifinal hockey game between a bunch of our amateurs, Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig, and the others, against the powerful, professional, “CCCP”-team in red, the Soviet Union…against all odds and hopes. Want another great turning point? Some might blow it off, but I know what I experienced and what I saw. Then President Reagan took office in 1980. The Iranian hostages, the Desert One fiasco (sending in Delta Force in choppers during a sandstorm), and the absolute evisceration of our military. I watched my uncle suffer: the agent orange, the substandard medical care from the VA, and the looks from others…those looks that told him they were ashamed of him…cutting him deeper than any of his wounds ever did.Ĭarter further weakened the United States, and we ended up with double-digit unemployment and double-digit inflation. Our dads and uncles came back from Vietnam to a country and countrymen that (for the most part) turned their backs on them. When you come back, put your “three-cornered” thinking cap on, and let’s get into it. Take a deep breath, and go listen to “Silent Running” by Mike and the Mechanics.
We have to prepare for a fight that will probably last for generations. The way to do it is to conduct an accurate assessment of where we stand, of where our enemies stand and act upon those assessments in terms of our preparations. It’s time to win again, plain and simple. What better man could have led us than a man who had that “inside track” on the mindset and tactics of the British Army? Remember: George Washington served as an officer in the British Army. Now, it’s time to set aside the “British Regimental System” of thought, as we did in the Revolutionary War and think in the manner of Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox,” and Roger’s Rangers. Our enemies in a war will be nations allied with them, and traitors within the United States within the bleached, whitewashed, polished-marble sarcophagi of the halls of government filled with rot and decay within. We need both books to triumph because the first is the very foundation for the United States and the second (a time-honored military classic) is the foundational doctrine of our enemies: the Chinese Communist Party and its armed forces. It is written in the Bible: “He who controls his passions is greater than one who conquers a city.” Sun Tzu wrote in Chapter 3, “Offensive Strategy,” to “know your enemy, but also, know yourself.” We must place things into perspective as they really are, in order to survive what’s coming as individuals, and as a nation.
Please, take these words and search your hearts and souls. Nevertheless, I beseech you, OP readers, and my fellow Americans.
That’s my stance, now and always: be all that you can be, or begone! Good! Get out of here, then! There’s the “door,” and don’t let it hit you in the “fourth point of contact!” If you’re not going to stand with us, then get out, or get out of the way! I constantly hear people talking about “moving to another country” or statements such as, “Maybe we’d be better off somewhere else.” My blood bleeds red, and it hurts me greatly to write some of these words. If we’re not very careful the hubris of exceptionalism could lead to our demise. It was once our greatest strength: the pride, patriotism, and love for our country combined, giving us a feeling, a knowing, that we could, and would, rise to the challenge. We were weaned upon it and raised upon it for the past fifty years.
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