The purpose of Poetslife is to promote the art and discipline of American Tactical Civil Defense for families and small businesses and to contribute practical American civil defense preparedness guidance for all Americans through my articles in the The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA.ORG) Journal of Civil Defense and leadership as the volunteer Vice President of TACDA.

12/30/2020

Why I Love America

             I love America because of the wonder and spirit of American’s, their creativeness due to the gift of freedom, the beauty and grandeur of America, and because so many have given so much to the unique idea of America.

            One is my uncle, Frank J. Curley. He was a Lieutenant bombardier/navigator on a B-24 who believe in Americans and America so profoundly he flew 29 missions to protect, defend and preserve both. On February 10, 1945 he flew his 30th and final mission off Ha-ha Jima when Imperial Japanese Navy ack ack hit his bomb bay. Although he is listed as MIA (missing in action), given that other pilots in the bombing run stated the plane was a ball of fire he most certainly perished that day.

He volunteered for that mission. Another guy was sick, and he went for him.

            It took me 35 years to research and write his story (see https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2005/12/frank-j-curley-mia-usaaf-in-memoriam.html). It was so painful for my family, especially his younger brother by two years my father, they never talked about it.

            Frank J. Curley is one of over a million men who have give their lives in combat for this American idea, along with tens of millions of other men and women who have served as honorably but paid the ultimate price.

            Although I am not worthy of Frank’s sacrifice, I have tried to honor his sacrifice and spirt of giving by working (volunteer) with the American Civil Defense Association (https://tacda.org/about/#board). I first wrote for their Journal of Civil Defense (JCD), was invited to be a board member, and am now a vice president…a classic American progression from minor to major responsibilities if enough talent and grit are shown.

            My articles for the JCD include: WaterBricks for Safe Water Storage, Useful Emergency Communication tools, Children and Civil Defense, When State Hackers Take Aim at the Power Grid, Data situational Awareness: It’s about the Date NOT the Device, Surviving a House Fire: Lessons Learned, How to Write a Business Continuity and Disaster Preparedness Plan, Church Emergency Evacuation, Shelter-In-Place, and Lock-Down Plan…and others.

            I researched and wrote all these articles because I love America and American’s. I want to preserve and protect Americans and the beauty and grandeur of America, and because so many have given so much to the unique idea of America.

            I also served on the St. Michael the Archangel Safety and Security Committee. We have written an emergency response plan, tested it, run training exercises and prepared the staff and parish members for the full threat matrix (active shooter, tornado, fire, and other man-made and natural disasters.)

            Before we began, like many churches we had no outside cameras on the building, church staff and religious education teachers were untrained in emergency disaster response, and everyone, from the priest to the preschoolers’ did not know how to act before, during or after an emergency.

            After three years of writing the emergency response plan, testing it in multiple exercises for various emergencies, and training the staff, parishioners, adults, teens, tweens and wee ones, everyone is better prepared.

            Americans are unusual. Our history of sacrifice and innovation is unmatched in world history. Despite what God and freedom hating Marxists, including the ones who work and walk among us and their media enablers, falsely push, most Americans are a force for good in this world.

            If you doubt that, imagine if the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) succeeds in its plans to replace America as the dominant world power.

What do we get?

Organ harvesting of live humans, forced labor and human slavery, mind control via media manipulation, religious persecution, hatred of foreigners, racial injustice and discrimination, 24/7 video tracking and surveillance, and no freedom of thought, spirit, or action. All work and tasks are directed to increase the power and wealth of the one percent of the population that is a CCP member, the rest of the nation lives in grinding poverty.

            Does this sound extreme? Look at the way hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens along the Yangtze River in 2020 who have been experiencing heavy rainfall, mudslides, swollen rivers, flooding, destruction of their property, crops and death…what has the CCP done for them?

            Nothing.

            In contrast, what does America do for American’s before, during and after such a natural disaster? Where the CCP provides nothing, American’s are given food, shelter, medical treatment, counseling, and money to start again.

            To start again as Americans because they have an American mind, body, soul and spirt. In contrast, to the CCP, people are nothing.