For a number of years in the last century I was a faculty member at a university in Kentucky. The secretary of my department was a daughter of Alvin York, one of the most decorated soldiers of World War I.

Growing up in a home where her father was constantly honored never removed the sense of rationality from the good woman.

She had one of the most flawless characters of any one I have ever known or worked with.

She filled her position at home and at work, a giver. She didn’t demand or inherit, she earned her respect.

The society in which we now live has certainly fallen from grace. Rationality, reason and morality have all been set aside.

Whatever fills the desires of an individual or group is on demand. Regardless of where it fits, if you don’t agree you are discriminating or a racist.

Instead of making an asset, individuals and/or groups prompt or march with placards or other means always demanding.

We don’t have a national hero like Alvin York. Instead, coming from Washington is a sense of placating to the ever growing liberal socialistic trend, taking from the individual: responsibility, self development and contributing.

Our congressional people make laws demanding acceptance of the unnatural, unusual and irrational. These come with a price, not a society of respect, but one of contempt.

Respect has to be earned. No legislature can enforce it.

– Robert H. Foster, Provo

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