padremike wrote:
Sarge, I, too, left this forum for awhile because I found myself becoming angry and responding angrily at what we allowed Progressives do to our nation. I certainly did not spend a carreer in the military to allow them to fundamentally change America in the perverse way they have. Having briefly returned to OPP, I find that, once again, I'm quickly losing any tolerance for "them" and intend to soon seek greener pasture. Someone will know where those more reasonable commentators abide.
Elie Weisel, holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, well summed up my concern when he wrote: "A man comes to Sodom hoping to save the city. He pickets. What else can he do? He goes from street to street, from marketplace to marketplace, shouting,'Men and women, repent. What you are doing is wrong. It will k**l you, it will destroy you.' They laugh, but he goes on shouting, until one day a child stops him. 'Poor stranger, don't you see it is useless?' 'Yes,' the just man replies. 'Then why do you go on?' 'In the beginning' he says, 'I was convinced that I would change them. Now I go on shouting because I don't want them to change me.'"
God save us from resorting to extreme violence again.
Sarge, I, too, left this forum for awhile because ... (
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Padre, although I had heard Mr. Weisel's story before, I was reminded once again of its relevance with your retelling of it. I suspect that many, if not most, of us on OPP have similar thoughts and fears. I thank you for reminding many of this eclectic group of individuals on the forum of our probable commonalities, in spite of the differences.
Like others, I've always felt compelled to follow Shakespeare's line of advice from Hamlet, "To thine own self be true."