Ted Nugent decries ‘desouling scams’ that have created millions of takers.
In the swirling, toxic dust of 9/11, gagging for life itself, America did what she does best and rose together powerfully from a momentary blindsided suckerpunch to stand as strong and united as this old guitar player has ever witnessed her. We stood as one, defiant against an identified enemy and proud of our core Americanism. There was One America on Sept. 12, 2001. It was us versus them. It was beautiful, inspiring and very, very hopeful.
Now I admit, I wasn’t quite here yet in 1945 as the world stood in awe of such authoritative victory of good over evil, when America once again showed a clear cut case of divine intervention, halting the twofold double-tap of pure Japanese and Nazi evil. Even the conquered knew a United States of America was a sure force of good to reckon with.
I did, however, grow up in the inescapable afterglow of World War II, and the term “Greatest Generation” did not have to be explained to the masses, though it should have been. Freedom has never been free, and many of us would have thought that the undeniable good of all that makes an experiment in self-government so beautiful would have been embraced as the self-evident truth of the era.
And it did, at least on the surface, for the longest time. What best described the spirit of America for my generation was overwhelmingly, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather all that you can do for your country.”
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