A Thought for Thanksgiving

[eisely]

This piece below is excerpted from some recent remakrs by Chris Matthews, an absolutely delightful commentator. The guy talks a mile every ten seconds, but he is very good and honest, which is much more than one can say about most self important talking heads and national news anchors these days. Anyway, this is what he had to say.

 

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"The class thing is wonderful because of Trump getting one more story about him in the tabs, the stories are about firemen and their families in The New York Times which didn't spend a lot of time focusing on firemen before."

 

"They did their first fireman story in history on September 11. And it's about the people of New York and therefore the country. New York's part of the country again. It's not elite now. It's changed for a while. The people who are being celebrated today are people who give more than they get. And for so long, we celebrated people who got more than they gave."

 

"And our value system was upside down. And the 80s, 90s were not good that way. We were fat and happy, but we were celebrating the wrong people and we weren't appreciating the good. A teacher who works and I think they say a Jewish woman who is sixty years old, has been teaching all her life and she raised her own kids in the public schools in New York. And got them through the same schools that are now Hispanic and Pakistani and South Asian, whatever. And she's still fighting her way to school literally every day."

 

"That woman was ignored in New York. She's a chump. Why is she doing that? Why is she working for fifty-five a year? What's the matter with her? That value system is gone. Now, we remember the people who survived New York the eyes of the firemen coming up the stairs while they were going down. And so, the heroes are the givers not the takers. And that's a good value system."

 

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While I strongly appreciate Matthews' insights into the change in America, the question that nags me is why did it take 5,000 murders for us to see what really matters?

 

Have a great thanksgiving with your loved ones wherever you may be, and remember in your prayers those who serve.

 

 

[OldGreyEagle]

Perhaps its because you never value what you have until

it is lost or threatended, then we realize what it would be like to do without.

 

Think what it would be like to do without Freedom, Liberty, having virtual heroes at our beck and 911 call.

 

For all those treasures and many more to many to list, may the Great Scoutmaster of all the scouts bless us and keep us (the whole world) close

[Rooster7]

Amen. I think this is true for all of us. One thing I learned after 9/11, I love our Arm Forces. I'm praying for them everyday. It pains me to think that one day, one of my sons might have to face this kind of evil. I'm grateful for the boys who have volunteered to fight this fight. I pray God watches over them and gives them strength to endure.