What a difference a decade makes.
Forty years ago today, the most ambitious mission of exploration ever attempted by man left the launch pad and rocketed moonward. At the tip of one of the greatest controlled explosions ever created, and at the apex of one of the greatest technological efforts ever attempted, three men carried the fascination of the world and the pride of a nation away from the Good Earth toward a rendezvous with what for most of man’s history had only been a strangely shape-shifting light in the sky. Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins placed their names at the bottom of the world’s list of explorers whose names are immortalized for taking a chance—Jason, Zhou, Yang, De Gama, Erickson, Columbus, Magellan, Polo, Lewis, Clark, and Pike, to name a few.
Thirty years ago today, the most ineffective and embarrassing American president since Grant accused the American people of slumping into a self-absorbed “malaise.”
In ten years’ time, the psyche of the American people plunged from pride at the penultimate achievement of man’s innate drive to know the other side of the mountain to self-pity and national loathing. A nation tired and leery of strong, purposeful leadership in the office of President voted for change and elected a pseudo-intellectual populist, and the nation drifted from prominence to purgatory. A desultory dance with a sputtering economy and a hapless response to events in Iran doomed the Carter administration and relegated it to an embarrassing one-term footnote in American presidential history.
In another ten years the nation was back on its feet, the sole survivor of the super-power struggle between socialist tyranny and free-market republicanism. Here’s hoping history continues to repeat itself.
1 comment:
Hello Colonel,
"Here's hoping history continues to repeat it self."
Well, my dear Colonel if this ill-prepared apologetic community organizer and all of his 'Yes Men' have anything to do about it, it is to make certain that this country is no longer a Republic but one closer to what the former USSR was based on.
What I fear is that we, the People, may be reacting to late to all of his and their 'Changes'.
I pray that someway, somehow these over-zelous Lefty-Loons can be stopped in their tracks.
I have heard one talk-radio host say that we have to wait for the election in 1-1/2 years in order to get rid of the entire Congress by voting them out...a 'Peaceful Revolt'....THAT MAYBE TOO LATE for this Country for this Country maybe to far down the road to recover from all of the bad that got passed.
AND, look what is being put on the Supreme Court. A judge who uses race and EURO courts for many of her dicissions instead of the Consitution, it's writings, Amendments and Laws. Also this judge that has had more than half of those dicissions overturned by the Supreme Court.
GOD have mercy on us AND please LORD keep an eye on our backs because the knife is in and it's slowly being twisted.
Goodnight Colonel.
May your dreams be more pleasant than mine.
Miss Em
Austell, Ga.
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