Prescient
It seems that Thomas Jefferson shared my plight of worry about a generation’s sacrifice being squandered by its children:
I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.
In his case he worried, upon reading of the Missouri Compromise, that the American Revolution would be wasted, and eventually he was right. It had to be re-fought.
I’m no Thomas Jefferson, but I’m also bummed and wonder sometimes why our military bothers, because of my sense that the great gift our grandfathers died for in Normandy, Korea and Vietnam is being squandered.
I wonder who, or if, there will be a “Greatest Generation” that defeats our internal enemies?
H/T/ Belmont Club