My welcoming home from Vietnam, as awful as it was, has taught me that politicians and soldiers are not a good mix. Seeing the statue at Ole Miss being moved, representing the brave men that were asked to fight for the state and died, moved, and covered up as a symbol of hate, burns my soul inside.

The flag of 1894 turned into the flag of hate, shown as the flag of the klan but wait, so were the stars and stripes carried by the same groups at the same time. Southern resistance against the federal government and freedom of individualism was and is what the flag of 1894 represents to many, including myself. Most of the flags of the world had legal slavery of all types of people,are we to remove them all?

The soldiers who fought when politicians couldn’t find a peaceful solution to world problems are always expendable and forgotten. Strange as it seems, even soldiers lose sight of what is right or wrong. Removing statues of war heroes of any American is terrible, and in the future, the country will pay a great price. When Hate of the country and the men that were asked to die to protect it are replaced with men that love themselves and money more than GOD and family, who will fight?

The congress, 21 politicians that stood against the many for days to protest that dislike of a new wanting to be a leader, has given me hope for the future. The blood of rebellion against tyrannical governments runs through many American patriot veins, and we all hope to have peaceful solutions to the nation’s problems.

Each time the government takes a slice of your freedom is one more step taken to rebellion in the future; the government must be seen as needed but never trusted. Time the great enemy of every empire has moved it’s hand of death closer with each increase in debt.

“I’m not sure this is a world I belong in anymore.