Just Another Poor Boy, Off To Fight A Rich Man’s War
In the movie The Godfather, the opening line belongs to the undertaker Bonserra who is trying to justify why he has allowed injustice to happen. His defense is “I love America”.
Over the last few years, I have come to appreciate that scene more and more. Like Bonserra, growing up, I put my trust in America. I believed that we were the greatest country on earth, that God had ordained us for greatness because we were a “Christian” nation, that having a president in the white house that opposed abortion was the single most important campaign issue and that our wars were just and, even I am ashamed now to admit it, holy wars.
However, over the last 5-6 years I have called into question all of those beliefs and outright rejected many of them. Like Bonserra, I too have come to realize my belief in America was misplaced.
One big change for me was on the topic of war. In my old belief system, any war in which we were involved was, by definition, a good war. About 5 years ago, I heard a song that made me question that for the first time.
My life has not been the same since…
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