Question of the Day!

"If I could change one thing about the way you were raised, what would it be?"

Answer: If the question is restricted to the key phrase of "The way you were Raised," then I must say "Nothing!" I am what I am because of the values and traditions taught and expected by my family.

Yes, my younger years were strict. My dad was the County Sheriff, and my mother was a government engineer with a Q-level security clearance who worked on the Navy's nuclear missile program.

So, the things I did and how I did them were constantly scrutinized. This was the nature of the times. Today, I can relate my sometimes balanced approach to life's issues to that early life. While the higher restrictions upon me caused momentary youthful malcontent... and undoubtedly is the cause for my being more liberal than my father and mother. Yet, I have no problem staying within the hard lines of morality I learned from my Parents, Aunts, Uncles, and Grandparents. There is a price we pay to be an upright man of character. But the reward is beyond any monitary prize... "Respect" cannot be purchased, willed, or stolen.

That's what's different these days... there is no longer any sense of morality in American Society. And before someone starts yelling about bigotry of one sort or another. It boils down to one main issue: NO longer having a Father in the home!!!! That societal failure is the root of our country's demise, why we have failed, and why the United States is doomed.

It no longer matters who is elected to any office. Like all other politicians, they will do nothing about our descending into the bowels of Sheol. Without a sense of purpose, a willingness to hold morality as necessary, and an understanding of what a human being is, we must fail, as all societies in the past have! And all of which met their end for these same reasons.

If I could change anything, I would have spent more personal, one-on-one time with my Father and Grandfather. Their conversations and wisdom are what I miss most in my life, but I don't think that qualifies as changing the way I was raised.