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The fact of the matter is, folks, we are more prosperous than we have ever been. We are more well off than we have ever been at all levels our society. We are fat, and we have the option of being fat, dumb and happy if we want to be — and in the process of creating all this prosperity we have allowed some people to tune out. They can just go about their lives and pursue whatever it is they want without fear, without concern, without any caution, and all they need to do is be focused on their own desires and pursuits. <\/line> <\/line>This did not exist in World War II. Don\u2019t misunderstand, I\u2019m not speaking as a fuddy-duddy; I\u2019m just trying to give a historical perspective. I\u2019m not saying we turn back the hands of time and become like we were in World War II, because you can\u2019t do that. You can\u2019t relive the past, is my point. But back then, just to remind you, 16 million people wore the uniform. Deaths in training accidents exceeded the death toll in Iraq today. Well, there was a draft. It wasn\u2019t just volunteer back then, although the volunteer spirit was what led to 16 million people wearing the uniform of the U.S. military back in World War II. <\/line> <\/line> But the fact of the matter is, it\u2019s not our partisanship that\u2019s the problem here. That\u2019s actually, to me, healthy and good. I mean the arena of ideas, this is what defined the country. It\u2019s how we came into existence. But this business of we\u2019ve become so prosperous that so many people have so much time on their hands that that time includes enough time to forget, or not learn, where this country came from, why it exists the way it is. <\/line> <\/line>People who grow older who do not know, don\u2019t understand why America is special, why it\u2019s different, what it is that makes it great, are not going to be able to — if they don\u2019t know it at some point in their lives — they aren\u2019t going to be able to defend it. They aren\u2019t going to be able to defend it. They\u2019re not going to care. They don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to matter. They\u2019re going to look at the country, “Well, you know, it\u2019s evolving and it\u2019s changing.”<\/line><\/p>\n

This service today focused everybody who watched it on who we are as Americans and what kind of country we are, and why. It was no accident that Ronald Reagan chose a reading from John Winthrop<\/a> from the 1600\u2019s. It was no accident, and it was no accident that it was cited twice. Sandra Day O\u2019Connor cited it in her reading, and Reverend Danforth in his sermon. It is no accident. This service today went back and traced the origins of this country and why and how. The odds of people in this audience — how many of you people have ever heard the name John Winthrop<\/a> before today? I don\u2019t know. My fear is that more haven\u2019t than have. That\u2019s why this is good. This is why this was good. This was a history lesson today, and that\u2019s why this has a chance to become a calling for people. <\/line>This can awaken people to what it means to be an American. It\u2019s more than just whatever they think their daily challenges are and whatever they happen to be — and I don\u2019t want to diminish anybody by mocking daily challenges. I could easily do it but I won\u2019t today, but let\u2019s face it: some people\u2019s objectives in life don\u2019t take them very high up the ladder, and we are so prosperous that you don\u2019t have to climb very high on the ladder to find economic prosperity, security, and that definition of happiness today. You don\u2019t need to go very high on the ladder, not like you used to years and years and years and years ago. You could be 21 and not have a job, and you could be as happy as you ever wanted to be if you have the right family, and you don\u2019t need to know anything more than what you\u2019re going to get up and do that day — and if it happens for you, then you are ecstatic, and if it doesn\u2019t you\u2019re depressed and you go out and you try to find the next day. <\/line>This country is so big, it is so magnificent and so wonderful, that despite that there are people whose attention span is no more than the next 24 hours and whose historical perspective goes back only to the day they were born, despite that there are millions more Americans who carry the load for those who don\u2019t, can\u2019t, won\u2019t, don\u2019t understand it, or what have you and today was a calling to those who maybe are in the wagon, that maybe they could do something to start pulling it, and it was also an affirmation for those pulling the wagon to keep pulling it. It\u2019s worth it. It was just brilliant today. I just don\u2019t know how else to describe it other than to say providential, almost divine.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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