Progressive Thinking

When looking at America's past , no other time is as comparable to french existentialism as the sixties. People stopped believing in the sturdy morals that had fueled their everyday lives :trust in their religion , money , and most importantly their government. People were literally screaming in the streets desperate to be heard by the men in tailored business suits that were sending their brothers, fathers and sons off to a war that no body wanted to fight. Young boys received draft notices like death certificates. Some turned away from the very country that held their childhood memories, their families and friends to flee to Canada. When given the option to either die on a blood stained field in Vietnam or rot in prison they created their own : run away and never look back , live as an outcast...but LIVE. 

We may look at the desperate acts of these young people and ponder as to whether we have grown past such problems. There is no draft today, no one is going to mail us a letter saying we have to fight a war tomorrow. However, young boys are being given letters announcing their "stop-loss". Boys who have served their term are being dragged back to the homeland of their bullet induced nightmares. Whats worse is that people who signed up for non combat positions are handed a gun and told to do jobs they have never been trained for.

One such non combat soldier Hinzman fled to Canada recently to avoid deployment to Iraq. 

Now i will give the news this : they certainly are a glorious mirror into which we may see the ugly reflection of our downfalls. People are still fleeing to Canada? When i read this i couldn't believe it. We are backsliding into the follies of our past and no one is looking at this headline and seeing the scratch in the record? How can we not hold up an old newspaper from the sixties to the online print of the Henzman deportation case and not connect the dots?

So thank god for the headline, and shame only that the font is so small. People need to know what this country has become, people need stories like this to open up their eyes and see that progression has missed one little aspect of american life.