Saturday, July 24, 2010
Just me and the "Guy's"
I grew up in the sixties, which not only means that I am very old and fragile, but also that I grew up during the height of the "cold war", (which was an imaginary war created by the Russians and my grandparents shortly after world war 2, when the United States and Russia decided to "block" each other from being "Friends" on "Facebook", even though they had just spent an entire war together as allies, fighting Adolf Hitler and his little Nazi buddies). The Cold War always seemed to make the village elders very nervous, as if at any given time a Russian "nuke" would come crashing down on them for no other reason than the fact that we Americans had access to a better quality of blue jeans than they did, coupled with the idea that we drank beer and grilled chicken on weekends, whereas the Russians apparently had little better to do than plan a "horrible" death to all Americans, while consuming vast quantities of vodka and red beets. It seemed that people were more patriotic in the days of the cold war than what they are now, and the older the person, the more patriotic they would be. My grandpa Guy Burgess, for example, could wing a Chinese or Japanese wrench clear from his house to the railroad tracks, showing little or no concern for the passengers on board the "Rocket", which was the "high-speed" commuter train that would pass through our small town. Grandpa Burgess was not a veteran of a foreign war by any stretch of the imagination, but you would have to look extremely hard to find a person who supported our troops and country as much as he did. He always believed in American ingenuity, and therefore would ONLY buy American products! Giving Guy Burgess a set of cheap sockets that were "Made in Japan" might get you a somewhat muffled thank you from this great man, but also endanger the lives of the travelers on nearby streets and railroads, as he threw them away. Grandpa Guy is deceased now, but I wish the world were infested with "Guys" that had his beliefs and ideas, the ones that made this country strong in the first place. I'm quite sure that if grandpa Burgess were alive today, and could see how our great country is rapidly declining , he would have the answers to fix it up again, using only American tools, and votes. Sometimes I wonder just what Guy would think of us now, after voting in a Muslim president, while having been and currently are at war with Muslim nations. I wish I had a set of Muslim-made wrenches, then I could go to Washington and throw them at the White House. Maybe next election we Americans can elect a Christian President to lead our Christian based society. Wouldn't that be a hoot?
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