Jack of Harts

Turning points come in all kinds of ways. The Crossing of the Delaware. The Battle of New Orleans. Firing on Fort Sumter. The attack on Pearl Harbor. The Twin Towers.

I wasn’t alive for most of them. I was at work when the first plane hit on 9-ll. I got home and started watching the news with Mom and we watched the second plane hit live. I watched the towers fall. I remember being a little mad. But mostly I was just sad. Sad for all the people dead. Sad that someone hated us enough to kill civilians like that. And I knew a lot more people were going to die, because Americans were going to demand justice and vengeance for this cowardly attack that killed civilians.

Today I’m sad for another reason. We just had another Turning Point yesterday. Charlie Kirk, a young Christian man who debated other kids at college, going into the most liberal of areas and speaking truth and logic and firing up a generation of youth to realize that they have been lied to. He spoke of his Christian faith and he had the biggest smile. He dared people to prove him wrong, and when they couldn’t prove him wrong, they chose to silence him. They shot him and killed him on a college campus where he was talking to other kids. And I’m mostly just sad, because I know a lot more people are going to die.

Americans are demanding justice for this cowardly political assassination.

Leftist Democrats are saying he deserved it. I’ve been approached in real life by one of them. They rejoice and gloat in public when their political opponents are shot and killed.

We’ve hit another Turning Point. The last one led us into twenty years of foreign wars in distant lands and cost us thousands of lives and burned out a generation of patriotic young men who now hate the mere mention of another foreign war. Men my age and younger who hate everything about what we did for twenty years because they went out to defend America and were burned by the political machine in Washington. This one is closer to home. The enemy is right here, not over there, and I don’t know where that is going to lead us.

What are the youth of America going to demand after one of the great voices of their generation was just shot dead on a college campus for daring to speak?