Greetings Gentle Reader,

The movie "Sound of Music," was based in pre-war Austria. On the video jacket, the Nazi invasion of Austria is described this way: "When Germany united with Austria." United? What idiot thought that up? Sadly, it was probably a baby boomer.

Boomers’ fathers, bro-thers and uncles died in W.W.II by the multiple thousands, to protect their beloved country and their families from the savages who were enslaving the world. And today, their descendants are dismantling the culture they saved at such a horrific cost.

The philosophical division in American culture seems to be between baby boomers and pre-baby boomers, especially between those educated before the 60s and those educated during and after the 60s, when drug use and anti-American sentiment reached a zenith.

As a result of this profound difference in perception, pre-baby boomers tend to see the changes in our culture as a prelude to an eclipse of freedom. But many boomers, willing to trade freedom for ease, comfort and security, see these changes as positive. Pre-boomers know changes have come with government controls and abuses attached, but boomers see the past through the eyes of their mentors, many of whom learned to hate both our culture and system of government during the 60s.

In the 50s, male teachers were often W.W.II veterans. They valued freedom and told us the truth. They had seen how people in other countries were controlled by governments. They had been there when so many of their companions died defending freedom, and they knew what they were talking about.

How have things changed? We used to hear the music of church bells. It was so beautiful. Some rang every day; some rang several times a week. Those bells are considered a public nuisance today. Churches that play bells can be sued by their neighbors.

Our public schools used to offer a superb education. Today, home-schooled kids are kicking the tail feathers of their public school counterparts on everything from spelling bees to ACT and SAT tests. Why? Because today, education must be politically correct, even though that leaves kids woefully under-educated.

We received a catalogue of home schooler’s books and supplies, and these are great books! No wonder home-schoolers are wiping the floor with public school kids. Many of the books the public schools use stink! They teach the kinds of things that would set well with a nut capable of describing the invasion of Austria at "uniting."

Our kids are getting a massive dose of indoctrination, provided by those who write school books. Lynn Cheney, Dick Cheney’s wife, exposed the revision of history written in the books our children study, and it is really bad. These people are determined to change our society, so they lie about our history, making good people seem to be bad, and bad people seem to be good.

The "whole language" reading system doesn’t work. The "new math" has produced two generations of math illiterates. Few college students or their instructors can locate even well-known cities and countries on a map.

Our daughter’s grandparents-in-law went to Europe to visit the graves of her brothers, who died in W.W.I. All others on the tour were Europeans. Repeatedly, they approached the Americans to express gratitude for America’s having saved their countries and people from utter destruction in both world wars. They even offered condolences to the grandmother, whose brothers died fighting in Europe.