I am a proud father of two mainly wonderful children who have kind of gone off our leading track. They are 19 and 17 yeas of age.
We (my wife and I - Although I can not convince my wife to carry a gun, she accepts my guns all over the place and my person) are gun totin' conservative, full fledged Second Amendment yelling, Red, White and Blue flag waving red blooded Americans, with a long history that we are very proud to tell every one about.
My kids have not even bothered to learn about our immediate family history (despite my trying), such as two uncles - one of my brothers, one an inlaw to me - plus a great uncle- -my uncle) who served in Viet Nam, a great uncle (My Uncle - a proud Marine and an amazing man in general) AND a grandfather (my father-in-law, long gone, now, but what a great guy!!) who fought in the Korean Conflict, another of my uncles who died as a police officer, undercover, fighting the drug war. My Grandfather was a "F-ing" doughboy in WWI, fighting his way through France .
There is a great deal more, but due to much of what they have been taught in our public schools, our family history of service has been changed in their minds as meaningless (or maybe worse), in some ways.
My grandfather's uncles (four wide, I have a family pic to prove it!) were all Texas Rangers trying to make safe the farm lands of the great plains across that land in the early days.
My kids could not possibly care less about this proud family history.
I am certain that we all have similar stories of family history, but this latest generation seems to be "embarrassed" in some ways or worse. do not even care.
How do we reach them? How do we make them as proud as we are of our heritage? Probably not ever going to happen, but any of you got any ideas.
Am I too late?
We (my wife and I - Although I can not convince my wife to carry a gun, she accepts my guns all over the place and my person) are gun totin' conservative, full fledged Second Amendment yelling, Red, White and Blue flag waving red blooded Americans, with a long history that we are very proud to tell every one about.
My kids have not even bothered to learn about our immediate family history (despite my trying), such as two uncles - one of my brothers, one an inlaw to me - plus a great uncle- -my uncle) who served in Viet Nam, a great uncle (My Uncle - a proud Marine and an amazing man in general) AND a grandfather (my father-in-law, long gone, now, but what a great guy!!) who fought in the Korean Conflict, another of my uncles who died as a police officer, undercover, fighting the drug war. My Grandfather was a "F-ing" doughboy in WWI, fighting his way through France .
There is a great deal more, but due to much of what they have been taught in our public schools, our family history of service has been changed in their minds as meaningless (or maybe worse), in some ways.
My grandfather's uncles (four wide, I have a family pic to prove it!) were all Texas Rangers trying to make safe the farm lands of the great plains across that land in the early days.
My kids could not possibly care less about this proud family history.
I am certain that we all have similar stories of family history, but this latest generation seems to be "embarrassed" in some ways or worse. do not even care.
How do we reach them? How do we make them as proud as we are of our heritage? Probably not ever going to happen, but any of you got any ideas.
Am I too late?