Sometime during the seventies John Wayne became old...not just the man but the icon faded a little. It wasn't the cancer, but the cancer of man. John Wayne was larger than life when he died but there have been so many people who tried to drag his name into the ground. John Wayne made frequent visits to the soldiers overseas and made a movie encouraging the fight in Vietnam. It was Iwo Jima that our servicemen were shown before going out to fight. These brave men that were raised weaned on his movies, of that strapping man of men who stared into the advancing hordes as the music swelled, guns blazed.
To be called John Wayne back then, it inferred that someone was trying to take on the enemy single-handily (aka RAMBO). Also, we now have an ailment known as John Wayne Syndrome...it's when men keep their feelings and emotions to themselves...you know...suck it up and play the man. And that's a bad thing? We have to call that a syndrome? I don't think John Wayne would be as appreciated if he were still swaggering among us today. The feminization of the American male...so in touch with ourselves and absolutely defenseless...victims of some vague childhood tragedy.
I'm not very proud of my generation. We've been called many names but I think, THE ME GENERATION is the most appropriate. Thought I'd forgotten that moniker? Too many boys playing with toys and too few men being men. We are very in touch with our feelings these days, bleeding our emotions on Oprah...blaming our fathers for our failures...leaving our children defenseless and fatherless.
John Wayne wouldn't care for this postmodern lunacy. He was a black and white kind of guy who'd do what was right for the red, white, and blue (God, country, and our family). We need to be men today. We need to see things as they really are - and do what must be done. We need to lift up what is right and cast off that which is false. We need to be men for our God, men for our country and men for our wives and children.
John Wayne wouldn't care for this postmodern lunacy. He was a black and white kind of guy who'd do what was right for the red, white, and blue (God, country, and our family). We need to be men today. We need to see things as they really are - and do what must be done. We need to lift up what is right and cast off that which is false. We need to be men for our God, men for our country and men for our wives and children.
I don't see men in Washington. I don't see men telling the truth on TV. I see liars, manipulators and fools. I see a political tug of war raging while the enemy is at the OPEN gate. I don't hear men teaching truth. I hear fools perceived as wise men. I see men as trees-a-walk'n. It's all just which lie you choose to believe. Take a pick like some card trick. What's it going to take America? What's it going to take BOY!?!
so tell me boy
do you believe in evil
do you believe such forces to exist
do you realize that bad men live
that nations move against us
plotted against
like Israel
do you realize evil lives
and desire you dead
have your children buried beneath the rubble
your babies on their spears
rivers of blood
you infidel dog
in the name of Allah
they would erase us all
once
not so long ago
in our father's and grandfathers younger day
there were bad men
nations that moved against the innocent
hitler was a man of mass graves
too many to count
sewer rats he called the Jews
evil thrived then
evil thrives now
infidel dogs
children raised to be bombs
young men with glazed zealot eyes
looking west
hoping for that moment of a wondrous glory
so
do you believe evil exists
do you believe in black and white
or do you merely ask yourself
why can't we just all get along
or
do you believe
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2 comments:
We have become a society who wants to "understand" the world. Is that bad....not to a point. But when the RK syndrome kicks in and we fall upon those immortal words of "CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?" We have lost it.
You can't reason with hatred that is born from centuries of feeding on itself. You can't hope to understand a culture who doesn't want to be understood.
We have lost our identity and are embarrassed by the America of year's gone by. Right....not always....but never afraid to defend itself. God help us all.
Angry.....Darn Skippy I am.
I see us P...ing away all that was worth holding on to, to be a part of the global community. Egad's...Hal Lindsey was right. One world, one Government, one Beast, One war.
John W.
Where are you when we need you?
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Amen, David. We do these things by being parents to our kids, holding ourselves and our friends accountable and not sacraficing our values under pressure from society. Honestly, I don't know if we can ever 'return' America to her 'Christian values' (see my blog on Satan's Masterpiece), but we can have an impact on individuals.
On a JW related note -- I caught the entire, uncut version of "In Harms Way" last night on one of the movie channels -- what a great (and a bit dark) movie. JW somewhat portrayed the anti-hero, and was backed upon by a great cast -- Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Carrol O'Connor, and many others. I think it may have been JW's last black and white film.
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