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Buck up, America!

Seventy-five years ago, America was brutally and surprisingly attacked by foreign enemies hoping to achieve total world domination. How did America respond? Over 15 million brave Americans went to fight to keep America free, many of which went voluntarily. Over 400,000 of these brave men and women never returned.

To fill the void of so many men and women being gone, all Americans did what they had to do to keep the American economy and way of life going. Women left their homes and went into the factories and became welders, riveters, and electricians in order to build the weapons needed to fight this noble conflict. Many of these women walked to work because gasoline was strictly rationed.

School children came home to empty houses not knowing when mom would be home or if dad would ever come home. These children fixed their own dinners knowing that they couldn’t eat too much because basic things like milk, butter, and sugar we being rationed to support the war effort. It is impossible to imagine what the greatest generation went through for our country.

Seventy-five years later … We have become a country that needs cry rooms, free counseling, time off work or school, and comfort animals that we can go pet to handle the emotional trauma of an election that approximately 50 percent of America doesn’t agree with. We now riot in the streets and shut down major highways because our candidate lost. What the heck has happened to us?

Regardless of your political affiliation I think we can all agree on at least one thing. We need to come together long enough to hope and pray that a true catastrophe never happens to us again. I fear we’ll never be able to handle it.

Timothy Hanlon

Washington, W.Va.

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