Ret. United States Air Force

Valdosta

• United we stand?

‘United we Stand, divided we fall.’ Leaders have known the truth behind this famous quote and motto since the beginning of socialized man. So here are some questions for you. Is the United States united? Have our leaders been uniters or dividers? Are you an American? And lastly are you safer?

 There are many different ways to approach these questions so here is my way. An American is not German, British, French, African, Native, Japanese, Chinese, or Mexican ... They are not Baptist, Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim… They are not young, old, working, retired, laid off, unemployed, disabled…They are not male, female, gay, bisexual… They are not rich, poor, or middle class. Yet every day we are bombarded from our leaders and media with these differences and reasons for special treatment or causes.

So what is an American? An American is a person with strong moral standards. A person concerned with the safety of the nation. A person who has rights which were based on natural law, which the founding fathers defined as those laws given by God. They can stand up on their own two feet and improvise. They are resilient when there is a set back. They are proud of their nation. And most of all they are united when threatened.

So back to the original questions is our nation threatened right now? Do our leaders and ourselves have moral standards? Do our leaders pit one classification of person against another? Do we pit one class of person against another or do we see ourselves as some special class of person?

To me the obvious answers to these questions are, as a nation, all negative.

A large part of our population would answer many of these questions with the wrong answers because of one major reason the lack of moral standards. If we do not as a nation reflect and return to moral standards we will be destroyed. Right now we are teetering on the preface of that destruction.

What can you do? First and foremost reflect on what are your moral

standards and why, if you do not have any then you are the problem. Second read and educate yourself. Next get involved with your community to help educate and communicate moral standards and monitor our leaders. When a leader has a lapse of moral standards (which is scarily present a lot nowadays) hold them accountable. Even if they were “your guy” it should not matter because they disrespected your trust.

United as one nation to protect our individual freedoms as defined by God.

Jeffory Korson

Alapaha