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Thomas Ray Vittum
A lot of interesting and good thoughts have been brought up. One thing everyone is talking about is history or rewriting history in the way that they see it or want others to see it. Tommy N, the Indians of old, and other cultures, passed their history down through verbal communication and I’m sure some of that was changed from time to time. Look at Christianity, people have been trying to erase the life and work of Jesus Christ, and the Jews religion. Look at the state of Israel and Palestine, anything that a group of people do not like they try to erase or change it. History was once passed down by word-of-mouth, I’m sure some people were killed so that history would stop. Then it was put down in written language, called Books. Books were burned, the one you know most of it is the burning of the books by the Nazis, in attempt to stop or change history. Today, history is being written and rewritten by social media, the news and in our schools or education systems.
The 2nd thing people are talking about is prejudice or being prejudiced. I believe everyone has “some” prejudiced in them, because there is something or someone that they do not like. It’s how they show or express their prejudice is what I think is important. Everyone can think back on their life on how they were treated or how they treated somebody at certain point in time, I certainly can, but that doesn’t mean I’m prejudiced against everybody, or even certain groups who went to Robert E Lee in 1969.
Well, I am not in favor of tearing down statues or changing names of schools or city or parks just because there’s a group of people that don’t like it. I am not in favor of banning movies (gone with the win), or cartoons. Remember, it was our generation that raise the “entitlement society”, who raised the mis-behaving kids of today’s riots. Like you, I will voice my concerns, my believes, and show my attitudes with the hopes of keeping things the way they were, or changing the things that I want to be changed. I hope and pray that we, as a group, do not have to turn to violence or to war, as we have done in the pasts (The American revolution, the war between the states, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War…)just to keep the things that we have or want preserve.
Here is a thought, the class of 1969 is now 69. If we are lucky we will live for another 15 years, if we are very lucky another 20 years. How will the world be change, what changes will be made in the next 15 to 20 years. Back in 1969 did we know of any “mix” marriages, or gay people being married. See things do change.
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