Posted on 02/20/2018 7:52:22 PM PST by Rummyfan
Last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school reminds us yet again that to live well—to live free—requires men with chests. That is a fundamental requirement of free government.
One young man in particular, Peter Wang, died with his chest out for all to see. As the Daily Mail reports, Wang was killed while “holding the door for classmates, dressed in his grey ROTC uniform.” For his heroism, the Army posthumously awarded Wang with the JROTC Medal of Heroism. In addition, the United States Military Academy appointed Wang to West Point’s class of 2025, as it was his dream to attend the academy.
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Peter Wang exhibited extraordinary courage under fire for a young man, and his example serves as a stark reminder of the republican virtue required to live in a free nation. His sacrifice deserves extraordinary attention to match his deeds. With that in mind, Trump should do one of the things he does best: dispensing honors to the deserving to teach our citizens what republican virtue really is.
The idea of men with or without chests comes from C.S. Lewis’s description in The Abolition of Man. Lewis ends his first chapter with an important passage:
And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more “drive,” or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or “creativity.” In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
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In public schools boys are raised as defective girls, and young men are told that the pursuit of real manhood is a pathology.
JROTC is one of the last bastions of traditional values, patriotism, merit-based recognition, and respect in the public school system, so naturally it will come under attack by the left.
Yes, and it’s sad.
But I have hope that we are going to see that pendulum swinging the other way very soon.
I have an acquaintance who raised her son as a single mom. He came home from college for a weekend and her plan was to watch some basketball and binge watch a bunch of Top Chef episodes. God help him and deliver him from the Bravo Network!
And to think she could have raised him as a boy. [Sigh.]
;-)
Peter Wang.
Hand salute!
Ready!
Too.
Brave young man.
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