Volume 4, Issue 22
In the afterglow of Memorial Day, we together as Americans, should take a further moment to reflect upon the underlying foundation of that devotion to service. The source of this commitment is trust, trust in a transcendent purpose greater than themselves. Often we hear speeches from elected officials on Memorial Day, thanking our veterans for their service and sacrifice. This rhetoric will cite their protection of our constitutional freedoms and our way of life.
All of this is of course true. We applaud the Services' vigilance for freedom. But there is more ethereal emotion in the decision to serve.
To make such a life impacting commitment, our men and women in arms have found the resolve to put their trust into a transcendent truth greater than themselves. They believe in a principle, a cause, a truth, that when protected, will maintain a better way of life for their children and their children’s children. It is a trust that these patriots exemplify. We as citizens must each pursue such determinations for ourselves.
The Presidential election cycle of 2016 to date has produced two leading candidates, neither of which a majority of the public trusts to do the right thing. Recently, one candidate registered with only 19% of the American public as trustworthy. It doesn’t matter which one. What matters is that the American public desperately needs something or someone in which to trust again. The issues are complicated. The divides are great. The diversity is complex. The solutions may appear beyond reach. Yet, it is not that America needs every answer to every problem. America needs leadership that provides a vision in which we all have a stake in common purpose, fair sacrifice, and righteous outcomes.
Following the Revolutionary War, our country’s problems were no less complicated and no easier to solve. Yet George Washington was offered the Presidency with only minor opposition. It may be that the country then was united in its new identity of independence and common cause for self-government. But then they had trust that their cause was righteous. They believed that their government would exercise fair application of policy.
Today, it is imperative that every American look beyond themselves for an elder, an ancestor, a cause, a principle, or a faith in whom or which they have trust. A trust that leads them to commit to a greater good for society. Our country prays for a leader who can recapture the trust of the American People. A trust between the people and their government has always been the heartbeat of America.
The United States of America is still a great country. We have every ability and opportunity to provide righteousness solutions for ourselves, and in that an opportunity for the world.
Ask yourself, what is the one principle or faith that I trust.
Regardless of the outcome of this Presidential and Congressional election cycle, each and every citizen of the United States must determine for themselves a truth that transcends their very presence. We as Americans must find that truth and commit in trust our ultimate devotion. Just as the the ultimate devotion shown by our service men and women that we just honored on Memorial Day.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?