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You have finally landed on the one page on this entire site (and on the entire internet for that matter) that is purely without bullshit... my soapbox page. There are a lot of times during our show that, whether it's because of time constraints and other obligations, I don't always get to address some issues that I feel don't get the attention they deserve. There are even more times when I just don't feel like waiting until the show the next day to get some things off my chest. Thus, I have started the "Rob's Soapbox" page. If you have clicked on this page looking for someone to coddle your fragile sense of self-esteem, or tell you what you want to hear or to reinforce your outdated world view, then exit this page right now and go somewhere else. If you are in search of the last forum for reason and common sense left in the world, then sit back, relax, and enjoy. I make only one promise with this soapbox page... if you read long enough and often enough, you will eventually be offended. So here's my latest soapbox. Listen up, 'cause you just might learn something... |
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THE TRAVESTY OF 6/06/06 Not since Y2K has such hype and paranoia been associated with a date on the calendar as was done this past Tuesday, June 6, 2006. Yes, that's right; the latest bogus Satan fear alarm was sounded because the date's numbers produce the alleged mark of the beast, 666. Fine, whatever. All religion is faith not fact and you may believe whatever you like as long as you leave me the hell alone to believe what I want. The appalling thing about June 6 this year wasn't the stupidity or circus like aspects to it. The appalling thing about June 6 this year wasn't the hype that the media produced around the "666" connection. The appalling thing about June 6 this year was that nobody and I mean nobody, paid homage to why the date really means something, not just this year, but every year. Before I reveal why June 6 matters (because sadly I am almost certain fewer than 3 people who read this column will know the answer), allow me to lecture you. Everyone loves getting a good lecture, don't they? There is no debating that America is an ignorant nation which is plummeting in world influence and intelligence via a dopey, unappreciative, apathetic, people. I came to grips with this fact years ago and I try my best to just sit back and watch our great society crumble as peacefully as I can. I am fully aware that people in this nation have no pride in how great the men that created America were and why names like Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin should send chills of pride up your spine today. I am painfully understanding of the fast-food nation in which we live, which comprises a people who have no sense of how and why Abraham Lincoln saved our very existence 140 years ago. I have even accepted the fact that most idiot Americans know nothing of the Great Depression of less than 100 years ago. Hell, most idiot Americans don't even know their state's capitol. What I cannot understand nor accept is how this country ignores one of the most important dates in not just its history, but the World's. Everyone still remembers September 11, 2001, when the worst attack by a foreign enemy on American soil was ever perpetrated upon our nation. Most people are aware of December 7, 1941, the day we were sneak attacked by Japan after being provoked by America's most overrated President in History, FDR Some people are wise enough to know that April 4 was the day that Martin Luther King Jr. was taken from us (although much of that credit goes to the fact that the date is quoted in U2's exceptional song, "Pride"). July 4 is only remembered because people get a day off, but hell, at least you remember it. Almost no one remembers or knows the significance of June 6, until the one year comes along when a little man in a red suit with horns is supposed to appear, and then we know the date for all of the wrong reasons. It disgusts me, and I'm not exaggerating. June 6, 1944 is the day that America saved the world. Were it not for that date, and the heroism that simply can't be overstated of this nation's men, you would be speaking German and I wouldn't be allowed to write things like this opinion. June 6, 1944 is the date of the landing of American forces on the beaches at Normandy. It was the tide turning moment in World War II and it came at a time when a German victory was a foregone conclusion. The largest sea landing in world history looked like a suicide mission on paper and had all the trappings of a war ending defeat for the allied forces. Sadly, most of you only know about Normandy as the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. Pathetic. Thanks to the last great generation of actual Americans, back when men were allowed to be men and America understood its place and role in this world, the USA once again defeated the odds, just like it did in the Revolutionary war, and began the end of Hitler's reign and the end of World War II. As we live now in a world where 2,500 tragic deaths of our soldiers in Iraq over three years makes our pansy-ass society weep, I remind you that we lost 2,500 American men in ONE DAY of the Normandy landing. By the time the whole invasion mission was completed 3 weeks later, at least 10,000 Americans had died, and some believe closer to 20,000. Yet here we live in America, 2006, where we can't stand the thought of the atrocities of war and the realities of the deaths that come with it. June 6, 2006 was a day to stop everything. It was a day to reflect on all that is important and a day to be scared, but not because some fictional devil was going to eat us. June 6 was a day to be afraid of how far we have drifted away from what we, America, once were. You can be sure that the Americans of June 6, 1944 knew why the years 1865 and 1787 mattered and made our country what is was. The absolute least that we could do would be to pretend to know why June 6 is a date that helped keep our country what it once was.
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