My friend Lee sent an article by Chuck Yeager in which he
talked about meeting a true hero, a WWII vet who jumped into Normandy.
One line struck me--"...the media chooses our
heroes."
Daily we are bombarded with words about "heroes,"
the ones selected by the media. They are
not actually heroes, they are mostly in the entertainment business and if they
are black, so much the better. Political correctness, ya know. Michael Jackson, Prince, Muhammad Ali...I really don't pay much attention.
Nothing about the Navajo Code Talkers, nothing about the
WWII vets. Complete silence when it comes to the Viet Nam generation, unless
you were a draft dodger.
Where are the editors, the experienced ones with a sense of
propriety and perspective? Gone with the Yahoo/Google control of what we see.
I don't want my heroes selected by some twenty-something who
only went to a liberal arts college in the northeast. Thanks. I'll choose my
own.
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