Perspective

Unsilenced Cal asks you to think about this. The tea party is not anti-war; it is about perspective. The tea party advocates the freedom to live in our literal world, not a Utopia envisioned, planned and implemented by liberals. Lt. Bayard Wilkerson wounded in battle on July 1st, 1863, coolly amputated his partially severed right leg with a pocket knife. Hours later he died. His father’s anguish is expressed in these words. “Oh, you dead, who at Gettysburg have baptized with your blood the second birth of freedom in America, how you are to be envied. I rise from the grave whose wet clay I have passionately kissed, and I look up and see Christ spanning the battlefield - his right hand opens the gates of paradise, and with his left, he beckons to those mutilated, bloody, swollen forms to ascend.” Dreams are nice diversions, but the government neither during the Civil War nor now can make life perfect.