What Is This World Coming To?

I just recently read on Fox News the story of three Navy Seals being charged with crimes against one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq. This terrorist is the one who was behind the brutal killings of four American Blackwater security guards. The three Seals are being charged with assault because one of them punched this killer in the face. I don't know about you, but I am surprised that a punch in the mouth is all this terrorist got. This world has come to the point were terrorists get off the hook while Americans, who did their duty in protection of their country, are punished.

"Sustain the Constitution"

"Sustain the constitution of the United States. The Lord himself has said that he raised up the very men who prepared it to the end that it might be an example to all the world. Do you beleive it? If you do then sustain it and don't let your voice be among those that shall deride and break down the things that are so important for us." -Elder George Albert Smith, 1935



Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints should be the first ones to stand up for the Constitution of the United States. You look at Harry Reid, who claims to be a LDS church member and you don't see him standing up for the Constitution. The Constitution is important to us, as members of the LDS church. Without it's great principles the LDS church and many other churches would not be allowed to practice what they believe and hold their meetings.

The fact that the Constitution was prepared by God to make this nation an example to the world is amazing. When people in this country are ashamed to be an American because other countries don't like us they don't realize that those countries are corrupt and sorrowful. Many of those Anti-American countries have communist, socialist, and opressive government systems. Those ashamed Americans don't realize that the rest of the world doesn't have even close to the values and privileges that the average American has under the Constitution.

Member's of this country and more specifically those Americans who are representatives of Jesus Christ, belonging to his church, should stand for the Constitution and its foreordained principles.

Presidential Priorities

I wonder were President Obama's priorities lie when it comes to Americans. It seems to me that with his slowness in deciding whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan, he would have more important things to do. Ohh! Maybe he could visit a bunch of Asian countries while throwing important issues dealing with Americans on the back-burner. I would think that the President of the United States of America would be more concerned about the safety of Americans than a tour of communist China. In fact I often wonder when the president isn't speaking somewere or on some type of a tour.

Veteran's Day

My grandpa was a veteran of World War Two. He volunteered for the army after returning prematurely from technical school. He figured that he wouldn't be able to get home sick in the army, so he decided to join on March 3, 1942. For some reason or another he choose to join the tank core. That decision may have saved his life. He was placed with the 77th division of the United States Army Reserve. His division was based out of New York City and was a very famous division in World War One for it's "Lost Battalion". He left the states and was sent to Hawaii were he trained and waited for deployment into battle. My grandpa fought in the Philippines, Guam, and Okinawa. He had many experiences were his life was spared and many that were too horrible to forget. He received two Purple Hearts, one for being wounded while on a troopship when a suicide Japanese submarine hit the ship and the other was during the battles on Okinawa.

Once the war was over he came back to the states married my grandma and had five kids one of which is my dad. He worked as a rancher for the remainder of his life and was always involved in politics.

To me my grandpa is a hero. Not because he earned metals, but because of the fact that he sacrificed time, pleasures, and risked his life in the service of his country. I am grateful for all of the veterans and those now serving to protect our country. I hope that we as citizens will make the United States worth fighting for just as it was when my grandpa served his country.

What is the Cornerstone of America's Society?

“The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish,values that are the foundation for our freedoms.”- Ronald Reagan

This sounds very similar to the Proclamation to the World. Not having good families that teach values influences societies towards problems. If the United States had better families and supported them, we would be in a better situation than we are today.

Oops! That Peice of History Might Be Important in Our Day

I was reading in my history textbook just for fun and looking at the chapters when I noticed that we skipped talking about something that shouldn't be skipped. We have just recently finished learning about American Imperialism, the Panama Canal, the Spanish-American War, and Theodore Roosevelt. The only things taught to us about Teddy Roosevelt was his involvement in the Spanish-American War, the building of the Panama Canal, and the tour of America's "Great White Fleet" across the world. If you haven't guessed yet, the chapter we skipped or more importantly the subject we skipped was American Progressivism. My teacher has been a great history teacher other than this recent skip of American history. I don't really know why we skipped Progressivism but, it would seem to me that this subject would be good to learn about, seeing as many politicians, government acts, and problems in this country recently have been to Progressive. I guess I will have to read that chapter on my own.