[sg1987]

Thank you for the reply nmap.

Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!

I remember it well!

You are correct. I, like many I guess, don’t care for the liberal’s agendas…. Not enough however to have taken the time to study them as you suggest. This is a wise suggestion to say the least.

I am under the strong impression that any cultural group other than the historically dominant group(s) are protected, encouraged, and supported by elements in academia, the media, and government. So long as they are encouraged while the mainstream culture is suppressed, they will grow stronger - and other groups will weaken.

There was a presentation of an academic paper that discussed some of the early efforts by Hispanics to change rules and policies in schools at the K-12 level back in the late 1950's...

This, to me, is where we are losing to the left; the proper education of our kids or the lack thereof. This answer to a question put to Stephen Pressfield struck me…

GR: Randy, a Goodreads member and Marine comments, "Pressfield uses the battle of Thermopylae...as a backdrop for studying the psychological makeup of what a soldier should be. This is a great book for anyone who is thinking of, or soon will be joining, military service. Those who are confused as to why a friend or loved one wants to join the military can very likely gain their answers from this book." Gates of Fire is required reading at several military schools around the country. Why do you think this is the case? What is it about your book that appeals to the military-inclined mind? Who else could learn from your books?

SP: Gates of Fire has a theme, and the theme is courage. It's also very much about the camaraderie of fighting men and of the warrior ethos. Believe me, this is still alive and well, despite all P.C. efforts to exile it into the past. Today's Marines and soldiers, however, like the rest of us, are woefully undereducated. No one has studied the past, so we all feel as if we're the first people on the planet to be confronting the issues we're confronting. That's where a book like Gates fills a gap. Marines and Army guys read it and realize that the same stuff they're going through has been gone through by a lot of other warriors before them, and that those warriors and the societies they lived in had highly evolved codes of honor and conduct. It gives our young soldiers and Marines a longer historical perspective and inspires them that they're not alone and they're not the first; in fact, they're part of a long and honorable tradition of the profession of arms. It helps!

Our children are no longer taught what we older folks were taught. I was taught that America has a long and honorable tradition. That all beliefs are NOT equally valid. That God- the Christian God, (yes I said it) has given us our liberty. That our system of Government IS better than others. I don’t mean to rant but I’m sickened by some of the crap I see taking place today in our public schools. Many of the conservative folks I know are either homeschooling or using private schools.

When I attended elementary school in Troup county Georgia we began each day with the principal reading a passage from the Bible, saying the pledge of Allegiance and a prayer. Neither I nor my family was Christian then but I was taught within the school that there was a basis for right and wrong …. that it is a great thing to be an American…. that we are the recipients of a long honorable tradition. This multi-cultural P.C. junk is producing a nation of people that no longer have a “highly evolved code of honor and conduct.” Many in our land don’t know what it means to be an American; don’t know that God is the author of our lives and our liberty. Many don’t know that it is man that will rob another man of his freedom. A continual, hard, non P.C. look at the fruits of Islam, communism, atheism, and totalitarianism would be most beneficial for all American youth.
I know that there are many of the “dominant culture” remaining, but we are shrinking with time. Maybe some form of activism is in order- rather than abandoning the public education ship. I don’t know. I do see that as more of us “religious right” (Christians) folks withdraw from the system there is less of the influence needed within the system.-my .02