1945

The year was 1945, everyone should remember, not just Americans. It was our (humanity’s) highest and lowest point. The great world war ended giving everyone the chance to rebuild, but at the cost of many lives, and the dropping of the atomic bomb. It was to be the war ending all wars, but unfortunately we know it not to be the case.

1945 was the year this typewriter I am using was manufactured. To look at this old Underwood, you would have thought it was made in a war, not after a war. Its shine and luster has long since gone, and the years don’t look like they have been kind to this old girl, but as you can see it is still doing its job just like it did when it was new. If only we humans could say we are doing our jobs like we should.

We seem to be creatures who quickly forget our history, and have to repeat our mistakes over and over. Like a mother who quickly forgets about the pain of child birth, and wants to have another child. War is an atrocious thing no matter how you do it. The difference I see between the big world war, and wars since then, has been our naivety to think we can put restrictions on ourselves because we are civilized, and expect the war to be less gruesome.

Naturally I am bias towards the United State, but we all (civilized countries) have highly trained men and women who have chosen to defend their countries with great pride, but it breaks my heart to witness their countries, including mine, let them down. We are to support them in every way we can, which includes letting them do their jobs without putting unfair restrictions on them.

During the last world war (2), many manufactures switched gears, and instead of making their normal wares, like Underwood making typewriters, they switched to making things to help the troops, all in an effort to support our fighting men and women. Manufactures haven’t done that since then. None of us have really given up anything to support our troops. No I am not including the families who have loved ones fighting. I am talking about the rest of us who go to work, and start complaining about the traffic to get there, and what big plans we have for the weekend.
I know there is more than a few of you kind folks who just don’t know how to support our troops any more than you are, which is by helping out the families the best you can. The problem I think is you’re the silent majority, and your silence is what is hurting our troops the most. We have a few squeaky wheels out there getting all of the attention, and not the right attention. In the olden days the squeaky wheel was the one who got the oil to shut up the squeak. Now a days we seem to encourage the squeaky wheel.

The time has come to say we have heard you, we understand what you’re saying, and understand you are wanting to help, but shut up. Let us work together on finishing what has been started and doing our best to prevent this from happening again. It’s like worrying about birth control once you’re already pregnant. It’s too late. Aborting what has already been started usually causes just as much trauma as finishing it, but without any of the rewards.

Let’s finish this war by giving our troops the freedom to do what needs to be done, and put our collective energy together on preventing another war. Is it possible to prevent another war, probably not, just like preventing unplanned pregnancies. As long as there are good people in this world, there will be bad people trying to get there way, and taking advantage of the kindness of others. Let’s be nice, until it is time to not be nice, and then kick some ass.