i hope i do not get a lot of negative comments for my post, it is just an observation and my personal opinion, hence what a blog is.
every morning i have my ritual were i drink my coffee and watch the news. it is a new ritual as i find the news to be quite depressing 99 percent of the time, but there isn't much else to do in this facility, so i think why not?
the other day i saw that a police officer was struck and killed, very sad story. because of this flags were to be flown at half mass. not to long ago, maybe the next day, the news reported a 18 year old girl getting struck by a car and killed. that's it. people made a report out of it just to fill up their news time or maybe that it was interesting to them. was there a flag flown at half mass for her? no. she was entered into the club of all the other innocent people that died. i understand a flag cant be flown at half mass for every death, because our flags would be flown at half mass all the time. so why honor deaths worldwide for police officers, and veterans, and people who serve our country? yes i respect and am grateful for their bravery, but does this make them more worthy than the young girl who was killed? the answer is no.
but if you open your eyes and look around, you'll see special treatment happening all over the country. maybe its not racism but it is almost the same thing.
just take a stroll in Boston, you see a homeless veteran and instantly feel guilty and urge to help in anyway that you can. you walk a few more blocks, and see a homeless woman but you keep walking and i am sure you are thinking in your head that they are a drug addict, alcoholic, or even not really homeless. people are causing chaos about all of the homeless veterans. what about all of the homeless children, and woman, and men? is because they weren't able to serve make them lesser of a person? i don't think so, in fact i know so. but they are treated that way.
is because they are veterans make them immune to drug addiction or alcoholism? what makes you think the money you are giving them isn't going to drugs or alcohol like you think the other homeless people will do with it?
the point of my rant, no one is more deserving than another. everyone is equal and it saddens me that America still cannot come to grips with that.
You see the business man speed down the streets of Boston in his new Mercedes past all of the struggling does he think about this at all? no. does he stop? no. in fact he probably thinks he is better than them.
that said. just because someone isn't well enough, or \brave enough to fight in a war does not make them less deserving of getting their basic needs met. Everyone was placed on this earth for a different purpose. God uses each and everyone of our lives for a purpose, and no one persons is the same. we are called to help EVERYONE in need, not just the ones who "risk their lives" or make more money. when is the world going to take off their blinders already?
