I grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. Born in 1951, my family and friends grew up in a free nation and one of the greatest states in the Union. Yes, we were not perfect, but we worked at it every day. We fought the scourge of Democrat racism and in the ‘60s went from historically racially segregated schools to peacefully and properly racially integrated schools largely without a hint of hostility to the necessary and moral change as our students welcomed our new black students into our schools with open arms. Check the record! Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth set the high standard for racial integration for the whole nation!
We had projectile launchers in our cars and trucks in the school parking lots, and inside our high schools our ROTC staff used them to train our ROTC students in their drill training and our on campus ranges (we have to carefully choose words that won’t animate anxiety in Democrats and social media censors—we can’t use any “g” words).
I graduated high school in 1969—and we never ever had any police officers assigned to our schools—and in all of my years growing up, no Fort Worth school children were ever threatened, injured, or killed on our school grounds by anything more that the occasional fist fight after school. Some of my school friends, and others, did die during those years. One was murdered by a brother, and one was killed in an auto accident; but until the United States government started drafting our boys and sending them away to fight a war the government didn’t really care to win and eventually quit on our commitments in Southeast Asia, we didn’t reall lose a lot of friends to projectile deaths. We really never had to deal with the violence growing up that later generations had and that ravages our country in increasing powers since the ‘70s.
That tells me something about the cause of the violence and hatred that now stalks our streets, our communities, our schools, and our culture, and it isn’t about projectile launchers of every kind in the hands of citizens. It is, instead, about the erosion of character in our culture since we threw God out of schools in 1962. It is about the selfishness and Marxism that invaded our schools and destroyed families and turned our children into a godless generation who learned that if you destroy the value of life, beginning in 1973, you could sacrifice your child to the devil and destroy your own soul and the soul of a nation while pretending it was progress.
Today we have made our language so meaningless that some modern Supreme Court Justices can testify with a straight face to the Senate that she, he, it, they, them, or whatever, can’t say what makes a “woman” a “woman” (which my generation learned naturally from birth). It is no wonder that we can no longer have meaningful communication and, more often than ever, many resort to insane violent acts on children and society just to vent their rage since they cannot find ways to communicate meaninfully and peacefully in their interactions with others.
My generation did not grow up that way; but today’s generation insists on building a new America in the image of godless Communism where there are no fathers or mothers or families or inalienable rights given by their Creator and secured by their responsible government, but only a ravenous all consuming and soulless consuming government to tell you how you must live and give, even though you are allowed under this new Marxist theocracy to own nothing and say nothing the censors will not allow. We keep trying to make the Marxist Communist ideal work that has never worked anywhere around the globe where it has been tried in all of the history of humankind.
If you want peace and order, stop demanding the surrender of rights, differing opinions, human rights, and inanimate objects from the people. That will never bring you more than the slavery we see in Communist China and North Korea and elsewhere where Communism is the rule imposed upon the people. If you want peace and order, instead, you must go back to the earlier, if imperfect, model we had in generations before when America loved and lived a real determination to live by the Constitution and seek God in all our ways.
Stop trying to blame projectile launchers and look in the mirror instead. That is what must be fixed! And that can only be fixed by a return to the God who sanctified America from the beginning for His own purposes. Only then it will be possible to build a great nation in which our children will ever again be safe.
Captain (Retired) Terry Michael Hestilow
United States Army
May 25, 1776
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