The greatest speech ever given to the United Nations by a US President was September 24, 2019. In case you missed it, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1XClviasFw You can bypass greetings and a reference to Brexit and begin at about 8:00 and listen to President Trump put the tyrants of the world to shame, starting with China. As he speaks, you can see their stone-faced responses as they are panned by the camera. They have been compared to the characters in the Cantina Scene from Star Wars, Episode IV A New Hope. http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccphanson/clips/the-cantina-scene-from-star-wars-episode-iv-a-new
Critics said that President Trump was squinting and appeared to be tired. It looked to me that he was very deliberate and that every word was clearly communicated without the bravado of a campaign speech. He wanted them to hear exactly what he was saying. He delivered every carefully calculated and worded point like a boxer pummeling his opponent. Unlike his predecessor, he did not apologize for America's greatness. He did not make offers for compromising “pillow talk.” He described their illegal and immoral actions for what they were and invited them to achieve, in their countries, American Greatness. He gave a speech that could never be given by Mitt Romney, nor the Obama apologists of yesterday, nor the power-seeking Squad of socialistic hypocrites who want to turn American Exceptionalism into American Dependency. No, that speech had to be given by a President who does not apologize for America, a President who understands and celebrates American Greatness and Exceptionalism, a President who walks the line for America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xObSJWIWui0
In July of 1977, Mary Kay and I lived in St. Louis, where we took our children to the release of a movie that was becoming a blockbuster, Star Wars, Episode IV A New Hope. One month later, we were in Idaho for a few days and we invited my parents to see this new movie with us, thinking that they would enjoy it as much as we had. My father was a member of The Greatest Generation. He went through college and medical school during the Great Depression and was a surgeon for four years with the US Army treating soldiers maimed and injured while fighting, many of them dying for our country in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. His path was similar to the thousands of other exceptional Americans of that time. He had seen and done many great things in his life, but he had never taken my mother to a science fiction movie.
The heat of that August afternoon in Idaho was soon replaced with the cool air conditioning of the Paramount Theater in Idaho Falls. A few minutes after we sat down, the theater darkened and the matinee movie began. The Star Wars Theme music began and a Galactic Star Cruiser quietly filled the screen as the written narrative scrolled by. Sitting next to my father on his left, I could tell that he was not moving, and I thought that he was fascinated and transfixed by the image. But no, he was traveling in another dimension, relaxed and dreaming of something else. Soon he was snoring softly between deep sighs. Shortly, a narcoleptic jerk gave evidence that his brief slumber had ended when the noise of the raucous cantina-bar scene had awakened him to a scene with strange-looking aliens unlike anything he had ever seen. Not fully awake, he turned to my mother, sitting on his right and asked, "Eva, where are we?" I envision him asking that same question today if he were to suddenly awaken from a nap in his living room while sitting in his favorite chair and see what was happening on the evening news. I imagine that he would be a voice for keeping America great --- he saw the price that was paid for America's greatness. That price somehow has missed the short attention span of the less than exceptional generation who seem bent on changing American into something that we won't recognize.
Roger H. Tall, M.D.E.Signature
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