Davy Crockett
I read “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee” one day during the Thanksgiving holiday. The first excerpt below will stick with me forever. I understand that life is different today only because we are different. We do not fight for anything. Even our own Liberty. We do talk and we do write. Some of us plan. Some of us plan well. And some of us plan well and keep our mouths shut.
I wonder what would happen if Davy Crockett was in Congress today? Or any of our founding fathers? I wonder how many people could define the concept of public virtue? I pray that moral leaders are given to us and that we accept them once this facade ends. The following excerpts are for your consideration. Everyone has an opinion. It is time to look in the mirror and measure your convictions.
David DeGerolamo
The Creek Indians had commenced their open hostilities by a most bloody butchery at Fort Mimms. There had been no war among us for so long, that but few, who were not too old to bear arms, knew any thing about the business. I, for one, had often thought about war, and had often heard it described; and I did verily believe in my own mind, that I couldn’t fight in that way at all; but my after experience convinced me that this was all a notion. For when I heard of the mischief which was done at the fort, I instantly felt like going, and I had none of the dread of dying that I expected to feel. In a few days a general meeting of the militia was called for the purpose of raising volunteers; and when the day arrived for that meeting, my wife, who had heard me say I meant to go to the war, began to beg me not to turn out. She said she was a stranger in the parts where we lived, had no connexions living near her, and that she and our little children would be left in a lonesome and unhappy situation if I went away. It was mighty hard to go against such arguments as these; but my countrymen had been murdered, and I knew that the next thing would be, that the Indians would be scalping the women and children all about there, if we didn’t put a stop to it. I reasoned the case with her as well as I could, and told her, that if every man would wait till his wife got willing for him to go to war, there would be no fighting done, until we would all be killed in our own houses; that I was as able to go as any man in the world; and that I believed it was a duty I owed to my country. Whether she was satisfied with this reasoning or not, she did not tell me; but seeing I was bent on it, all she did was to cry a little, and turn about to her work. The truth is, my dander was up, and nothing but war could bring it right again.
Crockett, Davy (2011-11-27). A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. (pp. 31-32). . Kindle Edition.
At the end of the day, we are about liberty, and that is the exercise of such. Much as it would be great if there was a battle line of freedom to join, there isn’t. There is a mass of overweight selfish entitled citizenry, the statists/tyrannists, some selfish preppers, and small groups of actual liberty minded warriors. So it’s not as if you are deserting something (other than the ideal of America), because there is no network or army, or group, to actually desert. It’s just a bunch of bickering people on the internet. I wish it were otherwise.
3) Which leads me on to this uncomfortable point. Most people in the country are unworthy. Most people in other countries are unworthy also. You get the tyranny you deserve, and in America, the land of the fat and lazy, we oh so deserve it. I wouldn’t fight for these people. I would fight for tribe, and for small bands of liberty minded people who are prepared to get off their asses and make a difference. At the end of the day, soldiers don’t fight in combat for the ‘government’ or ‘the monarch’, they fight for their buddies. It has ever been so.
Max Velocity
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