The local news just reported that today, the Blue Spring, Missouri school district went on “lockdown” for fear of “shots fired.” The Blue Springs police responded. The news report did not say how long the lockdown lasted. Though I imagine it was probably several hours.
Apparently the “shots fired” was merely a milk carton popping.
How have we come to this?
My father was a young man, really a boy, when he joined the Army in 1944. Underage, at 14 he had his “growth” in already as the Appalachian denizens would have put it. He told me of changing his birth certificate with ink eradicator and enlisting. Of course, he was discovered a year later and sent home, but that really isn’t the point.
The World War 2 generation is only one removed from some of us. I was born in 1965, so the first of Gen X, not really a Boomer, but I believe I think more like a Boomer. One generation, possibly two, from the men that stormed Point du Hoc and fought in the Pacific at places like Pielelu and Iwo Jima.
A milk carton.
The late Rush Limbaugh referred to this type of cowardice as the “new castrati.”
I think he was right.
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