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August 15, 2008
Exclusive: America Will Be Restored – One Page at a Time
Perhaps it was the unassuming nature of the book that caught my eye. Quietly, yet proudly, the non-descript book sat on the table, facing certain destruction as someone suggested “putting tape on it to hold it together.” It was almost as if I heard a “sigh of relief” at my rescue of it from a stack of books sold for a pittance at a farm auction – an inaudible bond between book and book lover.
As I peered inside, its fragile pages were discolored by years of neglect and apathy. The words screamed out with pride and patriotism, true accounts of battles fought only a decade earlier and of the painful birth of a new nation – the United States of America. Taking the volume to my office, I carefully turned its pages reading the words of one John McCullough as he wrote in An Introduction to the History of America in 1787 to school children in the newly formed nation. General Washington’s Farwell Orders to the Armies of the United States and a first account of the Constitution of the United States leapt from the page, history coming to life. It was not just the history within the text, but the history of the book itself, having survived nearly as long as our great nation, yet like our nation, was tired and old – a shadow of its former self, searching for someone who loved and respected it and understood the complexities necessary for its survival.
Much like the pages of McCullough’s book, which made its way from Colonial America to this writer’s home in South Arkansas 221 years later, our nation is crumbling from the lack of respect and care needed to nurture it.
In November 1939, following Germany’s invasion of Poland, the Winter Olympic Games of 1940 were cancelled. In 1941, the games, which had been scheduled to take place in Italy in 1944, were once again cancelled due to the continuing World War. Fast forward to 2008. With courageous men and women continuing to fight the War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Bush traveled to the Olympic host country of Communist China, sitting mere feet from Russian Prime Minister and former KGB agent, Vladmir Putin. Games were not cancelled – nor were wars as Russia brutally invaded the country of Georgia, massacring thousands as crowds and dignitaries continued their carefully orchestrated celebration of sportsmanship.
Our world is filled with wars and rumors of wars. Politicians continue down the destructive path of Socialist/Marxist welfare programs, increased government intrusion in our day to day lives. Our Presidential election has turned into a bad episode of “American Idol” as Barack Hussein Obama uses glitz and glitter to overshadow incompetence and arrogance while John McCain woos younger voters with clever, over-the-top ads while attempting to appear stately and “presidential.”
I carefully slipped the leather-bound book into its acid-free cover, safe from all that would destroy it and said a silent prayer for our nation. Like the treasured volume, she is tattered but strong, old yet filled with an under-lying spirit that refuses to succumb to the fierce elements that try to destroy her. Like each word on the fragile pages, one by one Americans are standing up for her, refusing to stand idle as we spiral into socialism and apathy, but determined to return to the days of prosperity, strength and respect. Like the small book rescued from certain destruction from a farmers’ auction in South Arkansas by a hard-working, conservative, patriotic, rural American family, America, too, will be restored one page at a time.
Family Security Matters Contributing Editor Renee E. Taylor is the editor/webmistress of American Truckers at War, a freelance writer, photographer, home schooling mom and publicist for Joey Holiday. Feedback: editor@familysecuritymatters.org.
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