You know, I don’t know what gets me the most:  the whiny-babies or the idiot-protestors.  On top of it some newscaster said on election night that all of America is crying.  I don’t think he got it either; at least half of them didn’t.  What can a person say?  Just shake your head at the stupidity.
Tell me what burning the American flag and breaking windows of private individual’s business has to do with protesting the election of Donald Trump.  Counseling, missing class, mercy me!
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     Time!  That precious commodity; wait, that’s not right.  It’s not a commodity, it is actually a gift and we will be held responsible for how we use our time.  I recall a poem from Waddie Mitchell, “Another Day” that has an interesting note on “time.”

          “We set our place, we set our pace
               we fill our calendar
           We haven’t any time to waste
               so, we must whip and spur
           Go, seize the day.  God, make the hay
               the sun won’t always shine
           And nothing takes forever
               ‘specially, running out of time.”
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“It will be a sorry day for this world, and for all the people in it, when everybody makes his moods his masters, and does nothing but what he is inclined to do.  The need of training the will to the performance of work that is distasteful; of making the impulses serve, instead of allowing them to rule, the higher reason; of subjugating the moods instead of being subjugated by them by them, lies at the very foundation of character.  It is possible to learn to fix the wandering thought, to compel the reluctant mental energy, to concentrate the power upon the performance of a task to which there is no inclination.  Until this victory has been gained, life holds no sure promise; the achievement of this conquest is the condition of future success.  No matter how splendid may be the natural gifts, unless there is a will that can marshal and command them, the life is sure to be a failure.”
–unknown

Hmmmmm, part of the answer to what I started the note with–do you think there is a lack of character?
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“And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.”     –Hebrews 4:13 (AMPC)

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”
–John McCrae (Composed at the battlefront on May 3,1915 during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium)

I’m going to break from tradition. I normally write the complete poem, “In Flanders Fields” for Veterans Day. But I’ll depart a little because I think I feel some stirring. Are there those who sacrificed and buried beginning to waken? No, not zombies, but their sleeping is being disturbed.
We had an election and some are disturbed. Instead of uniting they are showing either their ignorance or stupidity in destruction of property. It made me think of the words of Gen. Chappie James. I had the privilege of serving under his command when I was in the Air Force. General James stated,

“I’m a citizen of the United States of America and I’m no second-class citizen either and no man her is, unless he thinks like one and reasons like one and performs like one. This is my country and I believe in her flag and I’ll defend her and I’ll fight for her and I’ll serve her and I’ll contribute to her welfare whenever and however I can.
If she has any ills, I’ll stand by her and hold her hand until in God’s given time, through her wisdom and her consideration for the welfare of the entire nation, she will put them right.”

General James was a Tuskegee Airman, and became the nation’s first black 4-star general. He said, “I am, above everything else…an American.”
Another thing that is causing those buried beneath sacred sod to stir are comments that I read recently.  Such as, “You must never have faith in a nation.”  Tell that to James Stockdale, Jeremiah Denton, Robbie Risner, and other POWs.  Now, that statement is ultimately true, but those who have taken the oath of the military and serve their country better have faith in the nation.  They better have faith in their comrade-in-arms when they move through hostile territory.  Ultimate faith is in God, but if I’m captured I must have faith that my country will sooner or later come to my aid.
I don’t know if that person is just ignorant and naïve, or young and inexperienced, or just a Millennial, or just plain stupid.  Remember, “ignorance can be fixed, stupidity is fatal.”
Thank a Vet today!
“All Gave Some,
Some Gave All”

“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
–John 15:13 (NASB)