09/25/17 WISH I HAD BEEN WRONG

09/25/17 WISH I HAD BEEN WRONG

Sitting at breakfast, thinking how blessed I am by being in America. Our country has made mistakes but it was always head and shoulders above the best of the rest.

I remember watching the news, during the 60s, as people tried to escape Communism/Socialism, hoping to reach the freedom of the West.

They were sometimes captured, taken to jail, tortured or disappeared.

They were sometimes shot as they made a mad dash through an open field, trying to reach the protection of the Free World.

They were sometimes shot as they climbed walls, barriers, barricades designed to keep people within the clutches of an oppressive regime.

They were sometimes shot as they got caught in the Barbed Wire or Concertina Wire, which separated freedom from Communism/Socialism.

I remember in high school I was amazed that the poison of Communism and Socialism had reached so many in that day of political unrest and upheaval, causing riots and bombings of schools, police stations, government buildings. Yet, as a Christian, I knew it would get worse, no matter how mindless it was.

I wish I had been wrong.