OK, its been way too long since I put anything up here. Since St. Patrick's Day to be exact. In my defense, I have an adorable son whom I have been enjoying thoroughly. It has been amazing to watch him grow over the past 14 months (that have gone by way too fast) into a wonderful toddler that I can't get enough of.
Moving on to my topic of discussion, I have a request for America's youth: Stop being a bunch of jackasses! You may be wondering to what I am referring. Let me explain: tonight my wife, son and I went to a local high school football game. When it came time for the national anthem I was carrying two hotdogs, a bottle of water, a Mountain Dew, popcorn and my son. I put all of the food on the ground, shifted my son to my left arm, removed my hat and placed it over my heart, turned and faced the flag and remained silent while the band played. Instead of thinking about my nations pride I instantly became royally pissed off at the number of idiot teens and preteens around me that were nowhere near as incumbered as I and did less to honor our nation. Now I don't expect people to sing along, in fact I prefer they don't, but I know that if I had failed to do what was proper during that time, several members of my family, even though they weren't present, would have killed me! Even a couple of dead ones would have risen from their holy graves and dragged their zombie bodies to find and beat me. Its a simple thing to do that takes so little of your time and is far more important than any of the crappy gossip you can Tweet or Facebook post about later. One thing I truly loved about VMI when I was there was that when some civilian failed to do this simple task when the flags where being brought down at the end of the day any officer nearby would immediately lay into them. It was beautiful!
Bottom line, when its time to honor America, FACE THE FLAG, PUT YOUR HAND OVER YOUR HEART AND SHUT THE F*#K UP!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
