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The Legacy! by Carol Morris
Their clothes are wrinkled, faded and dirty. The studs that protrude from their tongue and eyebrows are only the visible evidence of the multiple places they have been pierced. Their bodies are marked with a variety of tattoos ranging from the innocence of the "butterfly" to the message-driven decadent "skull and cross bones". The young lady's protruding tummy is evidence of a new-life and the mother has no direction. Their education is probably through high school, others with college diplomas, but the core value system is "no personal responsibility". Most are in a dead end job with minimum wage. There are the few who have decent vocations but they lack principles and integrity. Their lives revolve around instant self-gratification with little if any thought of others. Accountability and consequences for their actions are non existent. While other young men and women are risking their lives on foreign fields to defend our nation and our freedoms, all these can think about is "their" comfort and immediate gratification. These accounts are the results of the breakdown of the family and the abandoning of the home. Action needs to be taken quickly and bring definition and purpose back to our children. Our society has been experimenting for the past thirty years with men and women working outside the home and the children left to the influence of day-care or their own devices. They've been labeled "latch-key" children. If we act quickly we can turn this sinking ship around and give purpose, identity, and value back to our children. The young girls have little if any idea of how to conduct themselves as young ladies. The young boys don't have a clue how to treat or value a girl because their fathers, (if there is one) doesn't model it for them. Men and women must take responsibility in their respective areas. Our children must be taught responsibility, manners, how to dress, proper speech, respect for others and property. They need to have respect for the opposite sex modeled for them by their parents and society. Our young girls are not toys, or objects to be used and then thrown away. The young men should be respected and be a source of safety not harm. Our young girls are being emotionally fractured and their bodies physically damaged by abortions. In a society that lacks values, how are our young people to know what it is to value themselves and put boundaries in their lives? In their moments of hormonally driven emotions they put themselves at risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease. They're playing Russian roulette and one day the chamber will be loaded. What kind of a legacy do you want to leave to your children, grand children, and great grand children? Will it be a legacy of "hopelessness" or "hope"? Do you want them asking, "Why didn't some one do something? Couldn't they see what was happening.?" We are not blind. We are not paralyzed. Perhaps, overwhelmed. Let us not look back with regrets. Let's start making a difference for the sake of our children and our nation and leave a legacy of "hope". I close with this question; "What will be the long term effects of your legacy?" |
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