Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day to everyone. We used to call it Decoration Day and Grandmother would pack a lunch (there were no drive-ins back then-imagine) and we would go to the cemetery and clean up the graves of our relatives and put flowers on them. While we had a picnic lunch at the lake on the way home, we would talk about those who had died and remember them.

This year in Oklahoma, the clean-up of the tornado continues this Memorial Day. Even though the weather is still full of storms and even though people have lost everything. Everyone I know is doing something to help.

What we can do without is the broadcasters from liberal television networks and other top liberals who come in and actually make fun of those of us (the majority here) who believe in God and thank Him for our blessings. I won't name any names (well, okay, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator Barbara Boxer and more) but it makes my heart hurt to hear their snide remarks. Then they turn around and are amazed that the clean up is progressing in an orderly fashion and that people are not sitting around whining for government money...they are just putting their heads down and going forward. They are shocked that, unlike disasters in other places, there was no looting or violence. I am so proud to be an Oklahoman and to be part of the Bible believing "hicks" they are making fun of. Here in Oklahoma, we still say "hello" to strangers at the grocery store, still get to know our neighbors and still have a society that is strong and self-reliant.

Well, I'll get off my soapbox and go work. Maybe making fun of Oklahomans will make the liberal press and politicians feel better about themselves and help them maintain their smug feelings of superiority. Please don't write me and tell me that there were like-minded people in Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina. I know that. I just don't remember the press and elected officials giving them a hard time about it. Of course, those states still haven't gotten all of their promised federal aid. We will see what Oklahoma gets. Texas wildfires destroyed millions of acres of land and they got no help AT ALL. I don't want to think that this is because of the fact that Texas is a red state. No, the administration would not punish those with differing political views....unless it's the IRS. Okay, I'll stop. I'm just amazed at the tone of those who have our ear and our purse strings. I'd still rather live here. We will help each other. Bev