Nation music star Charlie Daniels handed away in 2020. Nonetheless, the enduring singer’s son found his father was seemingly talking from the grave about America at this time.
Charlie Daniels Jr. is the son of the well-known nation legend, Charlie Daniels. After his father handed away, Junior, as he’s identified, took over his dad’s web site, solely to find that weblog posts that his father had written have been nonetheless eerily related at this time. A type of posts is from 2015 on Labor Day, and Charlie begins out by quoting the Bible verse 2 Thessalonians 3:10: “The one who’s unwilling to work shall not eat.”
“We got here up in a society the place work ethic was honed and drilled into younger people’ heads from the time they might stroll,” Charlie mentioned. “It was nicely understood that, when you took your ft out from beneath your mom’s desk, you have been by yourself, no one was going to offer you something, that the one manner you’ll survive could be by the sweat of your forehead.”
Charlie then reminisced about America again within the days when he was rising up. “I’ve picked cotton, cropped tobacco, pulled peanuts, labored within the log woods, and am no stranger to spine jobs and I contemplate it a blessing understanding what actually onerous bodily work is all about,” he mentioned. “I wished my son to know the identical factor and in his early teenagers put him to work cleansing out horse stalls within the barn.”
The nation singer then pointed to the federal government as a part of the issue we see at this time. “It appears that evidently beneath the present administration self-reliance, private accountability, work ethic and the opposite traits that made America into the nation it’s, or was, (that’s a subjective concern) have been traded in for dependence on the federal government, and a ‘blame all of your issues on some exterior drive, the world owes me a residing’ angle,”‘ Daniels wrote in 2015 when Barack Obama was within the White Home.
In one other submit, The Satan Went Right down to Georgia singer lamented about America’s youth. “The mind-washed children who’ve had their psychological processes warped by some revolutionist faculty professor who regards [Saul] Alinsky and Karl Marx as prophets who indoctrinate younger minds with the lies about America and white folks being the reason for all of the planet’s issues and should be stripped of their place on the planet,” Charlie Daniels wrote.
“Then there’s the senseless bunch who don’t know what they’re protesting, simply alongside for the trip, such because the younger girl who was not too long ago requested if she believed a statue of Winston Churchill in London must be eliminated, she replied, ‘I haven’t personally met him…’ ‘Nuff mentioned,” he added.
Charlie Daniels was additionally upset about those that demonize our police forces. “So, America for those who don’t need to stay in a society-run amuck for those who don’t need to have an armed escort to go to the grocery retailer, if you’d like peace and stability in your life, assist our police,” he declared. “And do it now, whereas it counts a lot.”
Greater than something, Charlie was a religious Christian. In a single weblog submit, he wrote, “My level people is that this world will get extra evil, extra harmful, extra immoral, and extra keen to name good evil and evil good day by day. It must be no shock to those that learn and imagine the Bible as a result of it tells us of a day when simply such a factor will occur, and the actually scary factor is, it ain’t gonna get no higher, it’s solely going to worsen.”
In the long run, Charlie Daniels remained optimistic about America. He actually liked this nation and trusted hard-working People to do the fitting factor. His ultimate submit was on July third, 2020, and he was occupied with our Independence Day.
“This yr, as we have a good time the 244th birthday of the best nation the world has ever identified, we’re beset with many issues, a few of our making and a few we have now no management over,” Charlie mentioned. “However, be that as it’s, America remains to be the best and I need to categorical my private emotions about our beloved nation.” These emotions have been greatest expressed in his track known as My Lovely America.
This then is America!
The land God blesses with the whole lot
And no Eiffel Tower: no Taj Mahal,
No Alps, No Andes
No native hut, nor Royal Palace –
Can rival her superior magnificence,
Her numerous inhabitants, her monolithic majesty.
America the Free
America the Mighty
America the Lovely
Charlie Daniels actually was a rustic legend in addition to a patriotic American. In one in all his ultimate ideas about the way forward for America, he gave strong recommendation. “Till America begins electing leaders who’re keen to take the accountability of their very own actions and the actions of these beneath their command there’ll by no means be street-level justice in America,” he wrote.
He then provided a little bit of a warning, together with some knowledge, that also applies at this time, saying, “Don’t give your vote to some jaded previous charlatan or engaging younger firebrand with skin-deep skills and commitments. Measure twice, minimize as soon as. Pray for our troops, our police, and the peace of Jerusalem. God bless America.”
