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Commander's Post    --   May 2023
​by Tom Holley

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What Did We Expect?
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According to the latest Wall Street Journal poll, values that have always defined us as Americans have decreased dramatically in the last five years!  Again, what did we expect to happen when:
  1. Our nation’s commander-in-chief is in fact the abortionist-in-chief.  He is leading the charge in denying value of human life.  If there is no support for this basic premise of life, which other values are of no consequence. Did you know, New York City is now advertising abortion services in Georgia?  It is funded with $1 million dollars and staffed 12 hours a day, six days a week, with bilingual staff.  The Federal government just can’t abide state’s rights. 
  2. The Ten Commandments, basic rules, have long since been removed from schools and courthouses.  No prayer is allowed.  The Federal government, originally founded by Godly men with Godly principals, has vanquished God from our lives. 
  3. From kindergarten through the university experience our children are brainwashed into believing that America is bad.  The WSJ poll shows that the focus on equity has decreased tolerance from 80% in 1998, to 58% today.  Equity means that we all must become the same.  Tolerance means accepting the unique differences in one another.  
  4. Organized religion is railed against from nearly every podium as being the most intolerant institution in our society.  Currently, the Methodist church is under assault by its own bishops for not allowing gays in the pulpit.  Bible verses are being rewritten or ignored to accommodate equity.  The majority of the membership accept gays.  But, that membership is not willing to accept gays teaching our children by misrepresenting the Bible to meet their agenda. 
  5. The ability of our armed forces to recruit is at an all time low.  Recently, the SCV published an article examining why Southern young people  aren’t interested in joining the Woke service.  It isn’t about fighting for one’s country any longer; it is about accepting Woke ideology and fighting for warped principles.  Patriotism is at an all time low.  Again, according to the WSJ’s poll, the importance of patriotism has dropped from 70% in 1998, to 38% in 2023.  
  6. What used to be bad is now readily accepted as normal; please take  words for example.  Watch any Hollywood movie rated over PG.  Cursing has become the trade off for good acting - and, especially, the F-word.  I once traveled extensively for business in the northeast and was appalled at how language had degraded into nothing but cussing.  That bad language is quickly becoming universal. 
  7. Every night on the news we witness young people robbing stores or assaulting elder folks.  (I meant to say Fox News because the other major networks don’t report it; it doesn’t match their liberal agenda).  We then learn that either they were not arrested or they were immediately released on ‘no bail’.  There are no consequences for their actions.  The district attorneys, usually black, raised and promoted thru affirmative action, understand the criminals’ plight.
  8. Through a cosmic epiphany, all large blue cities in the country have now discovered that the only way to find true equity is to distribute reparations.  They are using tax dollars to fund their schemes.  Does it not matter that these recipients already receive welfare, social security, housing allowance, food stamps, free cell phones, free computers with free internet, affirmative action, perhaps free university education, Medicare and Medicaid, etc?  And, please recognize, in most cases the poorest of the poor white citizens in those same cities do not qualify specifically because they are white.  Our illustrious V.P., herself a product of affirmative action, supports this initiative.  So, what did we expect?​​
​Results - A very close and dear friend of mine spent his year in Vietnam.  Terry was perhaps one of the most patriotic people one would ever meet.  It could be said that he wore his love for this country on his sleeve.  But, during a recent conversation, it is evident that his attitude has changed.  He simply cannot stomach watching the country he loves and was willing to die for deny its most sacred values.  
 
​Well, what did you expect?  At no time in our history has the country been more divided.  There is good and there is bad.  There is right and there is wrong.  But, we can’t or we won’t, even agree on that. 
 
Gentlemen, I have barely scratched the surface of our woes.  We are in a war for our culture and our country; the culture and country we grew to love and honor.  We (if not us, who?) must get engaged immediately (if not now, when?)!  Recruit someone and bring them to our meeting. 
 
Respectfully submitted:  Tom Holley
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        • Jordan, J.
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        • Holley, W. J.
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      • Cheatham, T. A.
      • Clapp, H. H.
      • Crawley, W. J.
      • Hatcher, R.
      • Hollenshead, C. R.
      • Hoss, W. A.
      • Hundley, W. B.
      • McCorkle, H.
      • McCorkle, J.
      • Morris, E. P.
      • Pottle, E. H.
      • Singley, J. L.
      • Skeen, Jessee
      • Slaughter, W. M.
      • Stephenson, A. C.
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