Election Year

I have never been much on politics.  I am a Republican, very conservative.

This election year amazes me. It has been a battle between two selfish children to see who is the best. There's been name calling, character assassination, bullying. I just want to hear what each candidate is going to do to bring back America to where she was when our founding fathers first signed the Declaration of Independence.

We were a united country with one goal in mind. To be the United States of America, one nation under God.

I have 12 grandchildren and I worry about the kind of country they are growing up in. The United States is not the United States I grew up in.

I was born in 1947. It was after World War II and the Korean War. We had been a country in battle, trying to keep the freedoms that we had fought for through the years. We had men and women give their lives for this country. Does that mean so little? Was their death in vain?

I would certainly hope not.

I grew up loving and respecting my country. As a little girl going to school, I learned the Star Spangled Banner, the Pledge of Allegiance to a wonderful flag that represents these United States. We prayed every morning. When I walked down the stairs of my school, there on the wall in huge letters was the Ten Commandments.

Every Memorial Day we would go to the cemetery to honor our dead loved ones and the soldiers who had fought for our freedoms.  On the fourth of July, it just wasn't a holiday. It meant something. It meant that we were a free nation, that we had freedoms that other countries didn't have. We were a prosperous nation, a strong nation.

We do have rights as an American. They are to see that our country remains the great nation that it was and that it can be again.

Please God, bless America again!!!