Spend A Moment On The Important Things

SEE HERE The world is mostly full of crap. The airwaves, the newspapers, all the media is constantly blaring about what you should think, buy, care about ... and it's all crap. Sometimes I wonder if the world wouldn't be better with a whole lot less of this technology that creates on the one hand a phony immediacy, a 24/7 connectivity with triviality while the really important things get little or no attention. I'm father of four, grandfather of 14 and time has simply raced by as these children and now grand children have developed into first fathers and mothers and now their children are developing into young men and women.

I look at the world we are leaving them and I almost want to cry. All we are leaving them is the crap. Most of the good stuff, the love and caring for things that are important seem to have moved to the back burner or maybe further back than that to where it isn't even noticed anymore. We have to stop and remember, stop and recover our center, stop and restore the kinds of things that West Point meant when it adopted the motto "Duty, Honor, Country." Too few know what that means anymore and when we finally forget the republic fails.