Touched by a Real-Life Angel
Like many in our current economy, yours truly finds himself doing extracurricular things to bring in the daily bread while occasionally bemoaning the necessity of doing so. It was in the course of carrying out one such task that an ordinary commercial interaction on a Sunday afternoon turned into a deeply moving experience.
It couldn’t have come at a better time. The news during the three days preceding this encounter was particularly rough on those of us who understand who has made us, what has come before us, and our obligation to do what we can to make things better for those who will follow us.
Three days earlier, American soldiers were massacred on American soil by a supposed comrade. By Sunday, a maddening, reality-denying, excuse-making exercise in political correctness that should frighten anyone interested in our country’s long-term survival was already unfolding. We’ve subsequently learned that the evil jihadist perpetrator literally waved his calling card, his 50-slide PowerPoint presentation, and his chilling core beliefs, complete with exclamation points and misspellings (“We love death more then [sic] you love life!”) right in front of his peers’, patients’, and superiors’ faces. Yet he wasn’t stopped.
During the previous two days, an obviously unconstitutional, coercive statist power grab of unprecedented dimensions got one step closer to becoming a reality. In the midst of the legislative sausage-making, people who claim to be defenders of life signed on to the creation of a health care labyrinth designed to give us wholesale rationing, denial of care, and a virtual end to medical progress, all in return for a tissue-thin “guarantee” — one which probably wouldn’t stand up in court when tested — that the new leviathan won’t finance feticide.
In the midst of all this, we learned that employment continues to spiral downward, the predictable result when an administration persists in pursuing what historically hasn’t worked while disdainfully eschewing what has. Illegitimately tokin’ on Okun (unemployment has never been within the necessary 3.0-7.5% range cited at the link during this administration), it soullessly engages in the utter fantasy that it has “created or saved” hundreds of thousands of jobs. Even the created/saved claims that are supposedly firm don’t stand up to scrutiny by reporters who would ignore the lies if they could. Lectures over how we should just accept all of this, that high unemployment is all of a sudden an immutable condition of American life, that there’s really nothing we can do about it, and that it really isn’t such a bad thing anyway, are beginning to appear.
I suspect I’m not alone in having gone into a bit of a funk as the Fort Hood horror, Congress’ determination to dismantle the greatest health care system in the world, and the unemployment rate’s double-digit surge all unfolded in 60 hours.
But then an angel appeared.
God Bless her and her son.
This woman and her family will be in my prayers . . thank you for this very tender and loving account. I am with you brother!
“The sacrifices this woman, her son, her family, and thousands of families like hers have made over the centuries to defend and preserve what we have, and who have given us the precious opportunity to improve upon it, demand that we press on unapologetically and forcefully.”
And everything is being systematically destroyed right before our eyes. And we do nothing because of PC and MSM control
The sacrifices you mention are easily overlooked by those wishing to impose a new America on us. How many times have you heard the Left-Kos, CAP, HuffPo express what the author has—cue the crickets…And we do nothing because of PC and MSM control.
This story has been repeated literally millions of times since the Civil War. And the left could care less. And we do nothing because of PC and MSM control.
I have been to many Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day activities in Wash.DC and others and I have been turned into a babbling and blubbering mass by the stories I’ve heard. And yet from the left we hear our military being compared to terrorists, Nazi tormentors, Pol Pot murderers and so on. And we do nothing…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – people like this woman, her husband and their son are what make this country the greatest in the history of mankind.
“it really isn’t such a bad thing anyway” for those who still have a job. How else can they buy things on steep discounts?
“it really isn’t such a bad thing anyway” until the talking heads lost their jobs.
“it really isn’t such a bad thing anyway”, it gives an excuse for the politicians to stimulate their pockets with taxpayers’ money.
this is what you find in flyover country, its in the cities too. the pride is also toned down with humility because their are millions of Americans like her, god bless them all.