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United We Stand, Divided We Fall.


United We Stand, Divided We Fall - John Dickinson 1768

 Those words used to mean something to all Americans.  Our forefathers understood the importance of this philosophy.  We still understood the importance of this as late as the 21st Century.  September 11, 2001, a tragic day in America.  The ones of us who are old enough to remember that day remember exactly where we were when we got the news.  We also remember the impact.  Immediately after 9/11 flag sales skyrocketed.  We raised our flags high and proudly.  We were ready to come together and fight.  Nothing else mattered.  Not political affiliation, not race, not financial status, nothing.  We truly were #AmericaFirst.  When exactly did being Americans and wanting to take care of America first become a bad thing to some?  How could it possibly become a bad thing?  Who or what changed the way some Americans think?  At what point did we become more concerned with other nations than our own?  I pray to God that it doesn't take another 9/11 to bring us together again.  We are One Nation Under God.  We have people in America trying to turn that into a bad thing.  Using labels like Nazis and Nationalists.  A Nazi is a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.   A Nationalist is simply a person who advocates political independence for a country.  If we have to have tragedies like 9/11 to bring us together as a nation then we are doomed.  We'll truly destroy ourselves from the inside.  I weep for America if we can't get ourselves back into the proper mindset.  We are one nation and we are one people.  We are citizens of the greatest country in the world.  We also have the power to crumble it to the ground if we stay on this path of division.  Take a knee and pray for America.  That's the best first step that I can think of.

 --Mickey Moran
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” -- Abraham Lincoln 

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