They say America has won its last war. Then why do we continue to fight in this faraway land of Iraq, only to let our soldiers be slaughtered needlessly?
As long as they are there, however, we must give them moral support.
But what about the moral support we give our young men and women at these universities, where they also fight a constant battle to get an education only to face obstacles, such as what happened at this great university in Virginia.
But something had to trigger the shooter’s madness. That sometimes happens when a person seems cornered in life. Thus, let me tell you a true story:
When attending The University of South Carolina School of Journalism in the fifties, I was an outsider, as was my classmate, a husky lad from the slums of New York City. Day and night these fraternity kids would fill balloons with water, throwing them against our windows. Not good enough for them, they even put alarm clocks on metal trash cans outside our door, letting the clocks ring incessantly. And on and on it went.
I didn’t know what to do but complain. Yet, university officials did nothing. And so this prompted my roommate do pull forth his hidden knives (he said that’s the way the problem was solved in the slums). Yet, the university still did nothing!
Who do I blame for the carnage?
We sometimes neglect the rights of those striving hard in traversing the potholes and the land mines out there on this highway of life. We have forgotten the Word of God; we neglect to read the Bible, which would help solve our myriad of problems.
Has our flag truly disappeared, as Vernon Oxford sings in his song/video presentation. His earlier song, “The Last Days of New Orleans,” seeks to tell America when we build on flood plains and marsh land, such as New Orleans, we break one of God’s laws, and so in doing, we must pay a penalty.
The Bible says: “Sin is the transgression of the law.”
There, on that Virginia campus, some law was broken. Much reporting and TV footage told about the death and destruction, but not much was said about living life in a more Godly fashion. This we must first do, basing everything on a higher law, not on man’s law.
? Everett Corbin, Murfreesboro
