usafvet65
usafvet65's JournalShe gave them the gift of knowledge then....
she gave them the gift of life.
May each one of them grow up to honor her memory and her sacrifice.
I was stationed in the south in the mid 1960's...
on a daily basis when I left the confines of the base and ventured into the local communities I saw the racial hated expressed openly and widely throughout the south. As a "dam yankee" raised north of the Mason-Dixon I was amazed at the open expression of this hatred.
I remember the feeling of relief when my discharge day arrived and I head north. Head home to live where the Civil War was over and the fact that "the north had won" was written in the history books.
Open racial hatred was not seen and felt. "Whites Only" signs were non-existent.
That was all behind me and life went on for nearly 40 years.
It stayed behind me until we elected our first black President. I soon start to hear and see daily expression of a hatred direct at that _______ (fill in the blank) in "Our" White House. I remembered the standard deep southern retort regarding the Civil War "We didn't lose the war we just lost the battle. The south shall rise again!
40 years later and the same racial hatred still exists and it's expression it now Twittered, blogged and Facebook to the world.
Sad but true and the GOP seems to the host organism for spreading this pandemic disease.
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