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.
