REFLECTIONS

Tonic Water’s excellent post, put me in mind of a Hollywood that is so different from the one we know, most people might not believe it ever existed.   Our family loves to listen to old time radio shows, Jack Benny, Abbot and Costello, Burns and Allen.  We buy cds from www.radiospirits.com.  The shows broadcast during WW II are a revelation.  The shows feature drives to support the soldiers, boost the troops morale and generally the actors go out of their way to show not mere support, but devotion to the troops and their cause.  It is heartbreaking sometimes, listening to that full throated, whole hearted support and know that today’s military will never know such support.  The Abbot and Costello show of that time had a segment in each weeks show paying tribute to a soldier’s heroism.  The acts of courage are truly awe inspiring.  I know that right now in the middle east American soldiers are acting just as courageously and in just as noble a cause.  Yet Sunnis and Shiites will embrace before today’s Hollywood is willing to tell the stories of these noble soldiers. 

 If we are going to have to have a reason to believe we are going to have to go out and find it.  No one is going to bring it into our homes through that squawking box in our living room.  We have to search the web for our hero’s stories and when we find them we must repeat those stories again and again.