The Americans?

[Laurie Verge]

These are my own personal thoughts/worries, and I hope I don't offend anyone. However, I may be one of the senior members on this forum age-wise; and I have been concerned since the Viet Nam era over the degree of political radicalism that has grown up within the U.S. -- and has been allowed to fester and expand. The flag burnings of the 60s may well have become the bombings of today.

I would like to think that things like yesterday's bombings were the work of non-U.S. citizens, but I'm not so sure anymore. Even if they are conducted by non-citizens, I am concerned that we have opened up the flood-gates to such elements.

My mother died four years ago at the age of 94. She used to look at her only great-grandchild and say, "I don't want to think of the world you are going to inherit, my love." I have those same fears. I'm not sure that our modern age breeds honor, respect, and integrity.