{"id":1540211,"date":"2022-07-05T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540211"},"modified":"2022-07-05T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T20:04:31","slug":"all-going-down-the-drain-100-year-old-wwii-veteran-breaks-down-in-tears-issues-warning-to-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-going-down-the-drain-100-year-old-wwii-veteran-breaks-down-in-tears-issues-warning-to-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018All Going Down The Drain\u2019: 100-Year-Old WWII Veteran Breaks Down In Tears, Issues Warning To Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fall-going-down-the-drain-100-year-old-wwii-veteran-breaks-down-in-tears-issues-warning-to-americans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540211&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>One-hundred-year-old World War II veteran Carl Spurlin Dekel considers his service to our nation one of the greatest honors of his life, but worries about the state of our country.<\/p>\n<p>Through tears, Dekel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/wwii-veteran-marks-100th-birthday-with-celebration-of-patriotism-sacrifice\">told<\/a>\u00a0FOX 13 Tampa Bay this weekend that our nation\u2019s decline will lead to others having fewer opportunities and living unhappy lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t realize what they have,\u201d the Silver Star recipient said. \u201cThe things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it\u2019s all gone down the drain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t got the country we had when I was raised, not at all,\u201d Dekel continued. \u201cNobody will have the fun I had. Nobody will have the opportunity I had. It\u2019s just not the same and that\u2019s not what our boys, that\u2019s not what they died for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, his service was an honor \u2014 and something Dekel would do all over again if he were of the appropriate age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost important thing in my life was serving my country,\u201d the veteran\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/07\/04\/100-year-old_veteran_breaks_down_this_is_not_the_country_we_fought_for.html\">asserted<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t think I could take away from that. They shipped me straight out to Guant\u00e1namo, which was a Navy base, and put me in a machine gun company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an honor for me to serve my country and if I had to do it again and I was the same age, I would do it. I guarantee you,\u201d Dekel said.<\/p>\n<p>After being comforted, seemingly by a FOX 13 reporter, Dekel offered words of hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just remember everything\u2019s beautiful and live every day to the fullest. Just enjoy everything you possibly can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd here I sit at 100,\u201d Dekel added. \u201cThey tell me I\u2019m 100. I don\u2019t believe it sometimes. Because I don\u2019t need to worry about age. I\u2019m not going to, I just keep on keeping on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the 100-year-old did not elaborate on what specifically has declined in our nation, the U.S. Military as a whole has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/three-star-general-teaching-critical-race-theory-leads-to-military-failure\">criticized<\/a> in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a retired three-star general in February\u00a0warned against teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the military, as it would divide soldiers by race, diminish our \u201cwarfighting capabilities,\u201d and increase the likelihood of \u201cfailure\u201d on the battlefield, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/three-star-general-teaching-critical-race-theory-leads-to-military-failure\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tenets of Critical Race Theory \u2013 a cross-disciplinary intellectual and social movement that seeks to examine the intersection of race and law in the United States, but which has the unfortunate effect of dividing people along racial lines \u2013 undermine our military\u2019s unity and diminish our warfighting capabilities,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/opinion\/critical-military-theory\/\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0retired\u00a0Lieutenant General Greg Newbold. \u201cWhen we highlight differences or group identity, we undermine cohesion and morale. Failure results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/author\/ben-johnson\">Ben Johnson<\/a> contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/three-star-general-teaching-critical-race-theory-leads-to-military-failure\">Three-Star General: Teaching Critical Race Theory Leads To Military\u00a0Failure<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-hundred-year-old World War II veteran Carl Spurlin Dekel considers his service to our nation one of the greatest honors of his life, but worries about the state of our country. Through tears, Dekel told\u00a0FOX 13 Tampa Bay this weekend that our nation\u2019s decline will lead to others having fewer opportunities and living unhappy lives. \u201cPeople &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1540284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}