Apathy in America

 M y Uncle Bill served in the 501^st regiment of the 101^st Airborne Division throughout World War II.  For many years, I accompanied him to his Army reunions.

At one reunion, the word apathy was used by Brigadier General and Chief of U. S. Army Chaplains (retired) Monsignor Francis Sampson, who had been attached to the 501^st regiment during World War II, describing it as the greatest threat to the stability and longevity of the United States as a representative democracy as he addressed the former paratroopers.

Concerned about declining patriotism and involvement in the democratic process, he predicted the United States’ or any democratic country’s demise would be the result of apathy among its citizens.

Unlike during the World War II era when Americans united for a common cause, overwhelming apathy has infiltrated the country and as less and less Americans participate in the democratic process, less and less will the country be one of and for the people he continued.

 Apathetic Americans will cause the decline and demise of the United States as a sovereign nation unless the U. S. citizens rise and reclaim control of the government and the nation reinstituting the democratic beliefs on which the county was founded.

Father Sampson warned that Americans had to once again embrace the country and its long-standing values by put them in to action in their homes, in their communities, and in their country.

By fostering love of country and the need for active involvement in the governmental process by younger generations of Americans was his one hope for American to remain strong and free. He concluded by re-emphasizing that the country’s greatest enemy was not a foreign foe; apathetic citizens were the greatest threat to the American way of life. I agree.

Take a stand-more on this subject forth coming. . .