Not only our USA history but the world history, including artifacts, must be retained and taught to students by grade school, middle school, high school, and yes, college teachers, instructors, and professors because, if we don’t, we will keep making the same mistakes over and over again. You say,” Why is this important”? For this reason, man used to hunt animals and humans with a bow and arrow or with stones and clubs; now technology has changed all of that with guns and other forms of killing apparatus, but the end result is still the same “DEATH”! So, there is no difference in problems only methods to resolve those issues. While I am on that subject, I have continuously heard the liberal community scream “outlaw all guns”; the problem with that is guns are dumb but only people can operate the trigger! So defunding law enforcement whose job is to protect the law-abiding citizens of our Constitutional Republic makes as much sense as using a rock as a life preserver! In addition, letting criminals out of jail because “minor crime breakers” shouldn’t be incarcerated is another travesty of the justice system.
In the last 16 years, many of the monuments that defined the many wars, including our Civil War between the North and the South, the USA has been involved in, have been destroyed/removed AND that history, now lost, was a learning tool for future generations not to make the same mistakes as we did!
The world is made up of good people and bad people as the bible teaches us, since the beginning of time and to keep the bad in-check you have to think as they do. If you believe compromising with them is the answer, you are thinking as the good (?) person you are but the bad guy will compromise to make you think all is good! But the bad guy will, every time it benefits him, ignore those agreements and do what benefits their long-term goals!
I have seen this with the releasing of frozen funds to Iran that opened the door for Iran to continue their nuclear program for an atom bomb or worse and the funding for terrorist operations. In addition, the pullout by this administration from Afghanistan and leaving all of our state-of-the-art military equipment abandoned (worth millions of dollars) is a travesty. We had the explosives, the knowledge, and the people to destroy every piece of war equipment there, at a minimum. And leaving those Afghanistan friends, who aided us during that conflict, open to a certain death was an absolute crime by decision makers!
My belief is this as Teddy Roosevelt said, “walk softly but carry a big stick”! It worked for him, and it worked for Donald Trump as he built a strong military force and stayed out of any wars during his 4 years as one of our top presidents. HAVING A STRONG, PROPERLY TRAINED, AND READY MILITARY FORCE tells the rest of the world not to create an atmosphere of distrust!
As I go through my lifetime of 91 years, I see many of our State Departments decisions as depending too much on compromising issues instead of taking time and considering the mind-set of that countries emissary and the problems facing this country to come to an issue ending scenario, which is good for both countries.
We have immigration laws that have worked well for many years as most of our ancestor’s came to this country and followed those laws but the current administration has decided, for some reason, to ignore (and our Judicial system, including our Supreme Court, is doing the same thing) with a result of millions of illegals, many of which are criminals, our sworn enemies, drug runners, and any other undesirous individuals.
The bottom line is this and I will repeat it again, listen to all reporting sources and get both sides of the problem, issue or what ever you want to call it because after this election of 2024 the results will determine whether we will continue to live in a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC or a SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP!
IT IS NOW UP TO THE VOTING PUBLIC TO DETERMINE OUR FUTURE