Your program has left me with many emotions. The strongest is the thought that we continue to use and abuse anyone that we choose to.
The concept of war is not one I embrace. I don't think many women do. It is contrary to our nature - we are the nurtures, the protectors of human life - how do we train nurtures to attack? At the very least, a woman would return from war torn between who she is and what she has been a part of.
But to take the best of these women, their best years, their best efforts and not acknowledge that they come home in an altered state is more than cruel. If we send a woman off to war the very least we can do upon her return is to offer her the best conditions. To ask that they simply pick up where they left off as if they were on a vacation or a retreat is unimaginable.
Homelessness has reached epidemic proportions. We see more and more folks sleeping in their cars and raising their children in transient situations. It is as if the nation has gone on lunch break! It no longer upsets us to see a family living in their car or to hear that a neighbor has lost his job and is moving along in the hope to find work somewhere else. We seem to forget why we are here.
There was a time when people came before earning money. I remember a time when wages covered the necessities and a family could live on one salary. I thank God I insisted on staying home with my boy when he was young because children need more than a series of strangers administering to them. They need love and love does not cost anything to give.
I become discouraged when I see how misguided we have become. Shows like the one today increase my belief that we need to return to a more compassionate society. We have no time to care. We must use every moment to chase that almighty dollar. And random acts of kindness don't pay well so we choose not to do them.
I believe that all of this could change so easily if we looked at what is really important. If we made people our priority, we would not have a world reeling in poverty and neglect. We see what happens when all of our efforts go toward the "American Dream". Maybe it is time to create a new dream, a dream where each person is important for what they are inside, not what they have in their bank account.
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