{"id":2253621,"date":"2024-05-27T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-has-become-the-land-of-the-selfish-home-of-the-indoctrinated\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T00:46:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:46:34","slug":"america-has-become-the-land-of-the-selfish-home-of-the-indoctrinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-has-become-the-land-of-the-selfish-home-of-the-indoctrinated\/","title":{"rendered":"America is now typified by ingrained self-interest and deeply rooted indoctrination"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Famerica-has-become-the-land-of-the-selfish-home-of-the-indoctrinated%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=2253621&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>Last week, one\u2063 of\u2063 my friends tragically lost her mother Karen, an 82-year-old woman with serious\u200c health complications. Despite the sadness, we remembered her\u2064 vibrance and \u200dsupport for us throughout her life. Also, she extensively spoke\u2062 about her father, who was killed in one of the bloodiest \u200dbattles of WW2,\u2062 looking forward to reuniting with him in heaven. We are \u2064reminded of the selfless sacrifices of warriors like Karen&#8217;s father, especially during Memorial \u200cDay,\u200c and the values they\u2063 died upholding &#8211; values that are diminishing in today&#8217;s America due to shifts\u2062 in our leadership and governance structures. The challenge is to maintain a government that prioritizes individual freedom and not let the sacrifices \u2062of these heroes be in vain.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>We received some sad news last week. The mother of one of my best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-the-woke-meltdown-at-one-domestic-violence-organization\/\" title=\"Inside the Woke Meltdown at One Domestic Violence Organization\">friends died<\/a>. As a fellow of a certain age (child of the \u201880s), parents passing, unfortunately, is becoming a regular occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>Karen was 82, with brain aneurysms and other health complications. Her doctors had told her she effectively had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-driver-who-inspired-lets-go-brandon-says-now-extremely-difficult-to-get-sponsorships\/\" title=\"NASCAR Driver Who Inspired \u2018Let\u2019s Go Brandon\u2019 Says Now \u2018Extremely Difficult\u2019 To Get Sponsorships\">ticking time bomb<\/a> in her head. So, we weren\u2019t necessarily surprised to learn that she had died suddenly, but we were deeply saddened. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-62032712\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-75e5d4a5a20ca4f46d2f31be36b6a030 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-75e5d4a5a20ca4f46d2f31be36b6a030\"><\/div>\n<p>It always seems the sun shines a little less brightly when good, kind people check out of Hotel Humanity. Selfishly, it seems the sunshine is even dimmer when we lose a true champion in our lives. And Karen was, for reasons not entirely clear to me, a faithful champion of the Kittle cause. <\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Karen talked a lot about the father she never knew, and how she was looking forward to meeting him in heaven. She was a toddler when her dad, a staff sergeant in the Army\u2019s famed 88th Infantry Division \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/armyhistory.org\/the-88th-infantry-division-in-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Blue Devils<\/a> \u2014 was killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/history.army.mil\/brochures\/nap\/72-34.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one of the bloodiest battles <\/a>of World War II\u2019s Italian campaign. <\/p>\n<p>The Army-typed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.88thinfantrydivisionarchive.com\/medals\/thebluedevilsinitay-casualtiesandmedalslist-79pgs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">casualty list<\/a> is long and breathtaking. Harry O. Wells, from the rolling hills of southwest Wisconsin, was a very young man when he died fighting on a hill in Italy known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uswarmemorials.org\/html\/monument_details.php?SiteID=1460&#038;MemID=1929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monte Battaglia<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/history.army.mil\/brochures\/nap\/72-34.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Battle Mountain<\/a>. His <a href=\"https:\/\/armyhistory.org\/the-88th-infantry-division-in-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">350th Infantry Regiment <\/a>was recognized for extraordinary valor. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Seven Bloody Days\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Wells, like so many of the young men of the Greatest Generation who fought in World War II, had a bright future in front of him. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uswarmemorials.org\/html\/people_details.php?PeopleID=25619#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Before entering the service<\/a> in December 1942, Wells had attended aeronautical school in Lincoln, Nebraska, and worked at an aircraft plant in Cleveland. His promising life was cut short a long way from home. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3500b1c0282ad4ba138c1e7f406d2dea fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3500b1c0282ad4ba138c1e7f406d2dea\"><\/div>\n<p>The staff sergeant\u2019s last week on earth was spent holding off German soldiers in northern Italy\u2019s Tuscan\u2013Emilian Apennines mountain chain. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor seven days, amidst powerful counterattacks, the men of the battalion repulsed each attack with fighting ability and teamwork, therefore, their objective was accomplished,\u201d an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uswarmemorials.org\/html\/people_details.php?PeopleID=25619#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entry<\/a> in American War Memorials Overseas sums up the brutal contest in military terms. But the Allied victory came with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-taxpayer-funded-abortion-seekers-are-often-repeat-customers\/\" title=\"Study: Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Seekers Are Often Repeat Customers\">terrible cost<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The Army Historical Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/armyhistory.org\/the-88th-infantry-division-in-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describes <\/a>the tense weeks leading up to the great battle, noting the 88th \u201ccould sense it was once again to go into combat.\u201d The Blue Devils attacked on Sept. 10, 1944, enduring enemy fire and \u201crainy, cold and miserable\u201d conditions at the front. They marched through deep mud and water in \u201csome of the heaviest fighting that fall.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile studying the Allies to figure out where to launch his main attacks, Field Marshall Albert Kesselring, the German commander, held his reserves in preparation for a surprise counter-attack,\u201d the foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/armyhistory.org\/the-88th-infantry-division-in-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">records.<\/a> \u201cThat attack occurred 28 September when elements of four German divisions assaulted the 350th Infantry atop Mount Battaglia. For seven bloody days, the Blue Devils threw back every assault and held the critical position.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4368225745d1c53bbac72488ba1ddc2c fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4368225745d1c53bbac72488ba1ddc2c\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey had won the battle, but not without great cost \u2014 approximately fifty percent of the 350th were killed, wounded, or missing. For its heroic part in the ferocious fighting at Mount Battaglia, the 2d Battalion, 350th Infantry, earned a Distinguished Unit Citation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karen\u2019s father, with a wife and 2-year-old daughter waiting for him, was among the many who would come home in a casket. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A \u2018New Birth\u2019 in Selfishness<\/h2>\n<p>On this Memorial Day weekend, we remember the countless stories of devotion from the men and women who so selflessly served their country in its gravest hours. We particularly commemorate the service members like Staff Sgt. Harry Wells who, as President Abraham Lincoln so eloquently noted in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abrahamlincolnonline.org\/lincoln\/speeches\/gettysburg.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gettysburg Address<\/a>, \u201cgave the last full measure of devotion.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>When Lincoln delivered his brief but ever-resonating remarks at a newly consecrated memorial to the soldiers killed on that Pennsylvania battlefield, he spoke of the duty the living had to ensure that \u201cthese dead shall not have died in vain \u2014 that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom \u2014 and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from earth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I think of the millions of American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prageru-what-is-identity-socialism\/\" title=\"PragerU: What Is Identity Socialism?\">freedom fighters<\/a> who in so many ways fought for democracy and against despots and totalitarianism in just about every corner of the world over the last century and a half. Yet I can\u2019t help but think how so much of what the union soldiers struggled for, what Harry Wells and so many of the Blue Devils died for, is disappearing or gone in modern-day America. <\/p>\n<p>Our government of the people, by the people, for the people, is perishing before our eyes thanks to leaders who put power before individual liberty. The politics of personal identity and selfishness have replaced the founding values that made this God-blessed nation worthy of fighting \u2014 and dying \u2014 for. <\/p>\n<p>The United States faces a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2024\/01\/22\/uphill-battle-boost-recruiting-military-faces-falling-public-confidence-political-attacks-economic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crisis in military recruiting<\/a>. There are a lot of reasons for that, but a loss of faith in the nation and its leaders is at the core. When the Pentagon is more interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/12\/07\/negotiated-defense-bill-lets-leftists-keep-using-the-military-to-push-abortion-dei-and-trans-agendas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pushing an LGBT agenda<\/a> than in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-shortchanges-defense-program-aimed-at-stopping-china\/\" title=\"Biden Shortchanges Defense Program Aimed at Stopping China\">preparing soldiers<\/a>, sailors, Marines, and airmen to fight, confidence is a diminishing commodity. When you have a commander-in-chief who has routinely <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/20\/opinion\/joe-bidens-divisive-defeatist-hbcu-speech-proves-he-has-nothing-to-offer-black-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vilified the nation <\/a>he is supposed to be serving, it\u2019s a tough sell to ask young men and women to put their lives on the line to defend it. <\/p>\n<p>And how do you field an army of of democracy defenders when many of your young men and women have been falsely taught that their country is not the land of the free and the home of the brave, but the prison of the oppressed by the powerful and \u201cprivileged\u201d? The freedom fighters of Wells\u2019 generation have been replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/09\/campus-terrorists-demand-a-steady-supply-of-gluten-free-meals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">self-involved campus brats <\/a>who are incredibly defending terrorists, tyrants, and practitioners of genocide. <\/p>\n<p>How confident are you that today\u2019s leftist-indoctrinated younger Americans would or could defend America if another world war comes? <\/p>\n<p>As we remember the selfless service members of conflicts past, we must contend with the selfishness of today. We\u2019re stocked with DEI-fed social warriors; we\u2019re dangerously short on USA-centered citizens like Harry Wells. We\u2019d better come to terms with that fact or this nation under God as we have treasured it and many gave their lives to preserve will perish from the earth. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2012c090bf4f7c22a927263c93d64a6f fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2012c090bf4f7c22a927263c93d64a6f\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, sorrow struck as my close friend&#8217;s mother passed away. It&#8217;s a bitter truth of our age &#8211; losing parents is becoming common. At 82, Karen had been battling brain aneurysms along with other health issues. 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