Posted on 01/12/2013 10:19:09 AM PST by old school
Beware the Grey Wolf
They won’t run
but they can still bite.
I have
No common ground
with tyranny.
I’m 63. I’ve been responsible for a firearm since I was nine years old. I taught martial arts for fifteen years and hold s third dan black belt in the same martial art the Korean secret service uses. I’m 6’1” and just a hair under 200lbs. I am angry and I’m real good at anger. As Phil Graham once said, I have more guns than I need but not as many as I want. I don’t have one I’m willing to register or turn in. If it comes to it, I may as well fight now because I’m just getting older. It ain’t the country I was born into and sure isn’t the country I want. A million of us fighting is not a force I’d like to reckon with.
Perhaps I used the wrong modifier when I said kids today are “mostly” useless. A large percentage are, if not the majority, but of course there are good kids today, as your paired Eagles testify.
I’ve read many a story (and written a few of them, in my journalist days) about kids who do brave, wonderful, generous and patriotic things. But too often I see kids doing stupid, selfish and self-serving things, to the detriment of society. I blame bad kids on bad parents, and we certainly have plenty of those.
But I stand by my assertion that veterans may be needed to teach the young when the time comes to recover our freedom and liberty. Many a “punk” was turned into a “good man” with the help of a loud gentleman in a Smokey the Bear hat.
(Two Eagles in the same family ... bully for you, Bear! Good job of parenting!)
Thanks, and I agree with your assertion—The young have always needed the guidance of adults, that’s why God made us (at least that’s what I tell my Scouts).
While it’s disheartening to see so many young people apparently frittering away their lives, I try to remind myself of a story my grandfather once told me. He was a middle-aged parent looking in disgust at the young “wastrels,” his own sons included, cavorting on the beach during the summer of 1938. Several years later, those same wastrels had engineered the defeat of the 1000-year Reich.
Thanks for posting.
Nice work Mr. Raves!
There was a book written awhile ago (1990’s?) that was called the “Fourth Turning”. Written just before 9/11 it talks about the “fourth” generation coming of age then (1997) and that they are of the same “generation” and same attitudes of “The Greatest Generation”. But it would take some large crisis to unite their efforts away from self and towards a greater call.
I thought that 9/11 was it, and perhaps it was the start as so many honorable men and women signed up to fight Terrorism. Or perhaps it was only training for something bigger.
I know that I am astounded by what the young kids are doing in my church community and those that I know in the military. I won’t sell out ALL of our kids short.
Here’s a synopsis of the book from Amazon. At $5/used copy I might have to actually buy it.
Release Date: December 29, 1997
First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the ‘60s and ‘70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century. Are you ready for the Fourth Turning?
Strauss and Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. In The Fourth Turning, they apply their generational theories to the cycles of history and locate America in the middle of an unraveling period, on the brink of a crisis. How you prepare for this crisis—the Fourth Turning—is intimately connected to the mood and attitude of your particular generation. Are you one of the can-do “GI generation,” who triumphed in the last crisis? Do you belong to the mediating “Silent Majority,” who enjoyed the 1950s High? Do you fall into the “awakened” Boomer category of the 1970s and 1980s, or are you a Gen-Xer struggling to adapt to our splintering world? Whatever your stage of life, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America’s next rendezvous with destiny.
For two reasons I think. ONe is civil diobedience. Gun owners ignored the form, filled out wrong information and I am sure other creative ways. WE WILL HAVE TO HAVE A PLAN OF CIVIL DISOBEDIANECE.
The other reason it failed there is the incompetence of the liberals who designed the plan.
One of the things our Canadian cousins did was fill out 20,30 or 40 forms for each gun altering the S/N on each form. This choked the system and threatened to crash the system.
Old farts won’t fight fair. Any taught operational plan the tres letter groups teach I am aware of, sometimes bold, audacious, insane or crazy is the solution.
I’m edging into “old man” territory, but I still have some game in me. As the saying goes, “Old age and treachery beats youthful enthusiasm every time”.
Dangerous old men is part of the history lesson given at Appleseed Marksmanship training.
Thanks, folks. Please share it with others. It may open some eyes and avert lots of bloodshed...unless that’s what some in the .fedgov want. Then God help us all.
Thanks, folks. Please share it with others. It may open some eyes and avert lots of bloodshed...unless that’s what some in the .fedgov want. Then God help us all.
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