February 2022. I have to remember when I smiled and felt good about our country, our
Flag, our National Anthem, history and holidays, monuments, life and
liberty and even our government and the people we elected.
I was never afraid to walk to school. It was a time when I played outdoors without fear of kidnappers or pedophiles.
I read books more than I watched television. We mostly went to the movie theater to see a story unfold on "the big screen."
No one thought for a second that some crazy person would shoot up the theater, slash girls with machetes on the beach boardwalk or bomb marathons.
I don’t want to remember the senseless murders, but I believe we have to, so those horrors never happen again. Isn’t that right?