Greatest Memorial Day Movies:

Saving Private Ryan 

Flags of Our Fathers

Platoon

Lone Survivor  

Hacksaw Ridge ( 1 man can make a difference ) 

Black Hawk Down

13 Hours

We Were Soldiers 

ect., 

Worked at a school that used to have three police officer's and everybody felt safe, however the defund the police movement got them taken out of our school because we were told there wasn’t enough money and that the police presence could be considered racist.

It's insane that a high school kid can't a buy a beer because he/she/they/we/ aren't responsible enough, but can buy a military grade assault rifle that law enforcement can't contend with.

Seems to us that what those police officers did in TX - waiting outside, protecting themselves, while children were shot and killed - may be an extreme result of the culture we've established the past two years. In 2020, we decided it was more important to shield teachers from a 99.7% survivable virus than to protect children from abuse, hunger, learning loss, depression, drugs or suicide. In a drive to save 80-year-olds, we canceled well child visits, isolated kids and prevented them from building healthy immune systems, injected them with experimental vaccines, and watched about 1/3 of them become obese - likely for life. We opened bars, restaurants and sports arenas for adults while keeping playgrounds, rec centers and preschools closed. We had some public health officials recommending that very ill children be locked in their room, to prevent older people in the family from getting sick. Even today, we mask 2-year-olds to make grown people feel safe. Is it any wonder those cops thought of themselves and their own safety first? It's a natural extension of the way we've been living since March 2020. The safety of adults - their comfort and peace of mind - is paramount. And children pay the price. In this case, the price was huge.

*I was thinking the exact same thing. I don't pretend to know the details in this incident, but it would fit given the way children have been treated.

*It has the sense of a stand-down to me, a la Benghazi. I know it isn't the same, but something seems similarly, an invisibly present as an external interference to what would normally happen as a response.

*Excellent point. Going even further, all of this "me first" "children last" mentality can be traced back to a culture that would allow its most precious and innocent to be murdered in the womb for the last 50 years.

We’ve become a society that’s removed any upside to being a police officer who actively responds to crime and pretend to be shocked by the results.

When trouble comes, Pray, “God, I believe you’re going to bring me out. I’m asking You to come into this struggle in my health, come into this loss that I’m going through, come into this depression that’s trying to stop me.”

I am strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm alive because I'm a fighter. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.