Athletes Do Not Go To War

On

February 11th, 2016

I wrote a

Post

about two completely different subjects,

from one another.

It was a

Thursday Night,

so I was probably watching

American Football

on

TV

and heard some

Athlete

spout off how important the

Game

coming up was.

I still believe what I wrote that day in my

Post

JPL Has A Poster For You.

But,

I should have written two different stories,

about two different subjects.

*****

"We choose to go to the Moon! ...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win!"

Even though I was five years old when

John F. Kennedy

said those famous words,

they are burned into my memory banks,

because as a family,

we all sat around our little black

and white
TV

and watched his historic speech.

I am going to go off track for a moment here,

because of the word
Historic.

I'm sick

and tired of hearing

Musicians,

Actors,

and especially

Athletes

tell the
World
that what they are doing is
Historic. 

Or,
like
Athletes
like to say,

where a game they play for money,

that they will be going into

"Battle,"

and it will be a

"War"

out there between two teams.

Movies,

Music,

and

Sports

is entertainment events only.

Not

Historic,

a
Battle,

 or a
War.

The
Men & Women
who serve their
Country,

whichever
Country
that may be in this
World,

are the true
Heroes
in life.
They go into
Real Battles.
Where people get hurt

or are killed!

Real major events,
that touch everyone.

These events shape our
World,

and these events are
Historic!

Nothing else.

I was going to use this idea in a story about an alternative universe
type of story,

but I believe this would be an excellent time to make my point with
this idea.

Instead of having our kids trading

Basketball Cards,

Football Cards,

and

Baseball Cards,

pretending those folks on these cards are heroes,

we should start a trading card business which offer

True Decorated Heroes

of famous battles.

True War Heroes.

A set of cards depicting all the

Great Scientists

over the years

and all the winners of the

Nobel Peace Prize.

That is what we should be telling are kids are the true heroes in life.
Like

Martin Luther King Jr.,

Nelson Mandela,

Mother Teresa,

Albert Einstein,

Aristotle,

Confucius,

and I could go on
and on about people who should be honored,

and they are not.

OK,

I really went off track here because that pet peeve of mine has been eating away at my brain for sometime.

The story I started

and what I wanted to tell you about is

NASA's

release of
14 Tourism Posters.

They are already enticing the public to save their money,

so that in the future,

we will all be taking vacations out into
Space.

You can download all them for free

and not worry about copyright laws.

On their

JPL

 website.

This is,

Hoping I Live Long Enough To Make It To Mars,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"Peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold." 
- Martin Luther King Jr. -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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