What a way to grow old...

[Bailey Guns]

I always knew growing older would involve physical decline. Not being able to do things I could as a younger person. More aches and pains, more meds, more time just taking it easy.

I never, in my worst nightmare, imagined I'd have to grow old while watching the total decline of the country I grew up loving, serving and admiring.

I really pity the very young children of today. They won't know the wonderful things that were this country only a generation or two past.

[StagLefty]

I keep telling my son "I'm glad I'm on my way out" I still don't think he understands why I feel that way. I'm sad to say I feel that way even more this morning.

[splogan]

they will if we teach them. We only lose freedom when we stop trying. If things go to far there are mechanisms to fix them if Americans still have the heart and guts.

[Whistler]

Completely agree on the folly of youth and the pains of aging, funny how I see the correlation now.

It's been a long time since I recognized the America I grew up in, of all the dreams and challenges of my youth none were half so as disheartening as the reality.

Redoubling my efforts to ensure my grandchildren have at least my stories and recollections to fuel their passions, perhaps they will have the courage to recapture that ideal where we failed.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Redoubling my efforts to ensure my grandchildren have at least my stories and recollections to fuel their passions, perhaps they will have the courage to recapture that ideal where we failed.

Those stories will be important if future generations are ever to restore the republic left to us. History shows us there are cycles -- the Roman Republic decayed into the Roman Empire and then into nothing but still managed to inspire bursts of true progress and growth. We may be seeing the start of a new Dark Age but there WAS a Renaissance after the Dark Ages.

[JohnTRourke]

Those stories will be important if future generations are ever to restore the republic left to us. History shows us there are cycles -- the Roman Republic decayed into the Roman Empire and then into nothing but still managed to inspire bursts of true progress and growth. We may be seeing the start of a new Dark Age but there WAS a Renaissance after the Dark Ages.

yeah, a 1000 years later

This one will be much worse. People don't know how ANYTHING works anymore.

[hollohas]

My child is 3. I worry about her future in a country that is barely a memory of what it once was. However, I WILL NOT give up on her future of living the American dream. She will be raised to know what American was and is supposed to be. She will be taught traditional values and to fight to keep and bring back those values.

The people in power have been wanting to change this country for decades. They succeeded because they went after the kids. That needs to stop. We need to take charge of teaching our kids. Teach them what the United States of America is supposed to be. Raise them to have the same values that founded this country.

I might not be able to change the direction of this country, but she might. We need an entire generation to fix this mess.

[kidicarus13]

Funny, but not.

[brianakell]

My child is 3. I worry about her future in a country that is barely a memory of what it once was. However, I WILL NOT give up on her future of living the American dream. She will be raised to know what American was and is supposed to be. She will be taught traditional values and to fight to keep and bring back those values.

The people in power have been wanting to change this country for decades. They succeeded because they went after the kids. That needs to stop. We need to take charge of teaching our kids. Teach them what the United States of America is supposed to be. Raise them to have the same values that founded this country.

I might not be able to change the direction of this country, but she might. We need an entire generation to fix this mess.

Correct. Good luck with unionized teachers, and realize more than 1/2 the parents dont talk to their kids about, well anything. And more than 1/2 the voting population is excited that obonzo won.

I re-evaluating relocation myself. The stoned morons and lowlifes can have themselves a party in the swirling toilet bowl they have created. The "parties" I blame as much or more than the idiots we have graduating from high school these days frankly. The parties have been so busy screwing off, and playing games, we havent had a real candidate from either side in a long time, prez or otherwise.

[DSull]

You echoed my thoughts in a very articulate manner!