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While researching my family's history, I found a letter written from Edom, Texas, March 8, 1901,
by John T. Brewer, my grandfather's brother, to his uncle in Alabama. In it, he remarked that,
"Connection is well as far as I know." "Connection" is how he referred to kinfolks. His letter
speaks volumes about the bond that existed in families in a time now gone forever.
There is little "connection" between parents and children in our day. Murdered under the euphemism of "abortion," millions of babies will never take their place in today's world. And, those who do are often institutionalized in day-care centers as soon as they are born, so mothers can pursue "careers." With little hope of knowing a real family "connection," thousands of today's children come home to empty houses at the end of the day. There's no "connection" in American homes between parents and children because we have gone pleasure-mad. Seeking a living instead of a life, America's homes have become a foundation of shifting sand upon which society teeters and tilts toward the abyss of destruction. Because there is no "connection" in American homes today, aberrant behaviour, that once would have outraged a decent society, is now tolerated as politically correct. |