Deep Thoughts

Now of course those didn't come from Mama.

Mama was on Facebook (spawn of satan that steals your soul and time) and saw a post from one of her high school acquaintances. The post said that he was experiencing a time of deep reflection. You see, boys and girls, his little son was with him and they saw an Army tank (don't ask Mama where they were because Mama doesn't know). The little boy asked him what it was. Mama has boys and they've always known what a tank is.

Mama is curious to know whether or not that reflection was based on the fact that his kid was not educated about what a tank was, its use, and its history...or if he was reflecting on how glad he is that his kid doesn't know about tanks.

Either way it makes Mama a bit sad. Children do not learn history. Liberal schooling systems do not like to talk about the past, but yet most liberals like to throw up the past at inopportune, eye-gouging moments when they are so for "moving on". If the schools aren't teaching...and the parents aren't teaching - what will happen to our children, our history, and our future? We must know where we came from in order to know where we are going. Our past shows us not only where we came from, but also our mistakes and provides examples of where we could do better.

If he was happy, and Mama didn't ask to find out, about his son not knowing what a tank was that makes Mama sad, too. What next will we deny? Will we deny the existance of war? War is ugly and beautiful at the same time. It is freedom and oppression. It is death and life. In short, it is what it is. If we aren't teaching them - who will? Do you want someone else teaching them? Consider Hitler. Consider the anti-christ who will come eventually. Do you want your children easily falling as prey to the roaring lion?

We can't have a future if we don't acknowledge the past. We stalemate. We stall. We become a gray area instead of a nation founded on rights, principles, and self-evident truths.

What subject do you keep from your kid? Mama isn't talking about sex or drugs or alcohol. Mama is talking about the necessities of American history. We are where we are because we did what we did. No other country is greater or has a richer history. There's a reason for that. Like it or leave it. Teach it or risk losing it all.