The Shadow
Dear Editor,
As I look around at what is happening in our country today, it’s hard to believe what it has come to.
Everything is someone else’s fault.
I, along with everyone else, have controlled their own destiny by actions, education, work ethic and attitude. Life is not delivered to your doorstep, you have to go out and look for it.
As I hear demands from these groups wanting free college, free medical, political correctness, etc., I?wonder if they ever wondered how the previous generation achieved all this.
A smart Democratic president once said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
Corporate America has sold out America by sending millions of job to China, so instead of burning and looting, we should be boycotting these companies.
Instructions from another very smart person says, “Thou shalt not steal.”
Role models are very scarce today and people have these superheroes from Hollywood movies.
My superheroes are the people whose names are on “The “Wall,” in Washington, D.C., Bedford, the policemen’s memorial and others who have been killed trying to keep this country great.
When I go to the Veterans Hospital, I see all these former soldiers walking with canes, some in wheelchairs, some missing limbs, I see “real” men and women.
I see blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asian and others, and we were all Americans who carried our head high.
When our country called, we did not take a knee and we always saluted the flag.
These were real men and women who fought bravely and did not hide behind Antifa masks.
You don’t change history, but you try to learn from it.
Slavery was wrong and the George Floyd murder was inexcusable, but to demand abolishing the police is insane.
We do need transparency and accountability in police departments, but accountability in anything seems to be a rare commodity.
In the demands to rename forts, we could rename some by their ideals such as Fort Burnie, Fort Looty, Fort Free Stuff — and you can think of more.
I recently did a class presentation at Alleghany High School on my experiences in the Army and Vietnam for Mallory Nicely and Karen Hopkins’ class and the students in their classes were very impressive. They were genuinely interested and later made a large card of appreciation with a paragraph from each student.
I had to stop reading a couple of times to clear my eyes.
When I see young people and teachers like this, it gives me renewed hope for the future of our country.
Sincerely,
Donnie Tincher
Indian Draft Road, Covington
