In what can only be described as a truly gut-wrenching video, a World War Two veteran sat down for an interview lamenting the disconnect between the values he fought for some eighty years ago and the current state of the country. The soldier dishearteningly notices both a significant change in the country as well as the noticeable lack of courage in most people nowadays.
Watch as someone who knows better than most what was at stake 80 years ago breaks down at the thought of losing everything again:
100 year old veteran breaks down in tears at what America has become
“The things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it’s all gone down the drain.”
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 11, 2022
100 year old veteran breaks down in tears at what America has become
“The things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it’s all gone down the drain.”
Don’t forget what they fought for this Veterans Day.
In the video, the centenarian veteran speaks with a reporter by the name of Emily and begins by reflecting on the great life he has lived, as well as his ability to appreciate the little things in life.
I don’t know. I’ve lived a good life. I’ve had a lot, a lot of happiness. Happiness, smiling, telling everybody that everything was beautiful every day.
If I went into my church and didn’t say everything was beautiful they’d think I was sick and I and I’m not that way. I sincerely believe in this whole world that everything is beautiful.
I mean, if I see, if I wake up in the morning and see these plants out here in nature, and all those flowers sitting right there, and the green grass on the ground. That’s beautiful.
From here, though, the conversation veers in a different direction. The man points out something all too obvious, that the people complaining today don’t know how good they have it.
And people don’t realize what they have; they bitch about it. And then, nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and them boys just died for and it’s going down the drain. Our country going to hell in a handbasket.
We haven’t got the country we had when I was brave, not at all, nobody’ll have the fun I had, but the opportunities I had.
It’s just not the same. That’s not what they died for.
Who can blame him for getting emotional? He continues:
It’s just, it’s just, not it. I’m so sorry. I’ll be alright. Just takes me time to get over it. I just why me, sitting here like this, all this going on.
Emily, it’s just just not it’s just not the same. That isn’t what we fought for. Oh, well. I shouldn’t be worried about it, I guess. I’m a hundred years old, they say.
I can only begin to relate to his comments. While I am frustrated, upset, and disenchanted by the growing influence of leftism and its utter destruction upon the American landscape, I also didn’t go overseas as a teenager, witness and commit terrible atrocities, and watch my friends die brutal deaths. To fight for freedom and the American way, only to watch it burn to the ground, must be devastating.
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