OUR HEROES---- Today and The Old Days

OUR HEROES ----- Today and Yesterday .



There is an interesting photo on my page in one of the groups today. The photo shows a man standing on a rock overlooking a precipice of the Grand Canyon. Just behind the man is a large bear. That pic demonstrates the youth of today, the way I see it. Youth has been made to see them selves as worthless in the eyes of the world.



The solution is to either jump into space (another word for cyber space) or be devoured by the conflicts of state and culture.



I offer no apology for religion, it needs none, but it is a very real and important part of the complex problem faced by our society.



In the old days a common expression was, "there are no atheists in fox holes". indicating that if you did not recognize God, you would when the loss of life was immanent. In World War ll for example, we had many heroes. Audi Murphy, The Five Sullivan brothers who all died in their ship.



All took a chance defending their shipmates and their country, but it was a chance. We have a new kind of hero today. Foremost in my mind is the 14 is the year old girl in Pakistan who faced almost certain death by the cult followers and bigots. She is fighting to live at this moment because some fanatic shot her.

There is no doubt this girl is a hero among heroes.



Mother Theresa who devoted her life to salvation of the poor in the slums of the world. Just the latest, the young man who stepped off the precipice, he left the security of earth and stepped into space from a balloon at some altitude like 24 miles above earth.



Many of us faced the possibility of dropping from a sniper bullet.. But most of us had a chance to live. The heroes today step off into the unknown, whether cyberspace, politics, or experiment. many of them are facing almost certain death.



A horde of young men and women today feel defeated. They no longer see the heroes in their culture. Many no longer see God in their families, or in their culture. They are defeated and this is the curse of our time. The defeat seen by our young.



Awww ! Who am I kidding ? You knew that long ago---- things have been going down hill. We need more heroes , fast ! ----- John Crowley

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