Do you have HONOR???

Earlier this year, my husband and I watched a documentary on WWII. The thoughts and feelings that I gleaned from this show, truly touched me. I remember feeling overwhelmed, by the sacrifice and selflessness of many of the people of that error.

Particularity, the history of the Japanese Americans and the personal sacrifices that they made when they joined a segregated battalion, and the same with the black battalion. If you hear many of these peoples story's, they each talk about their personal desire to give back to our country for our freedoms and liberty's....a desire to fight for democracy and freedom.

I was impressed by one of the Japanese Americans speaking on personal honor....and the honor that he and others within his family and race had....including...fighting for our country and giving back to our country. The fact that he would do "nothing" to dishonor his family or his nation...touched my heart...can you imagine how great this country would be today, if only our youth of today had these same convictions?

What about us as a society....what if we had the honor of this generation?

Traditionally, in Western society, honor figured largely as a guiding principle. A man's honour, that of his wife, his family or his beloved, formed an all-important issue: the archetypal "man of honour" remained ever alert for any insult, actual or suspected: for either would impugn his honour.

The concept of honor appears to have declined in importance in the modern secular West. Since I grew up in a more "gentlemanly" society, The 'Old South" (Alabama). I grew up with an ingrained since of honor and respect. I also have many family members who were in the military, and there, is a emphasis on the importance of honour. Also, having three sons, all of whom have been or will be part of the scouting program, honour is taught and instilled.

HONOR- is the evaluation of a person's trustworthiness and social status based on that individual's espousals and actions. Honour is deemed exactly what determines a person's character. Honor is as real to the human condition as love, and likewise derives from the formative personal bonds that establish one's personal dignity and charicture.

Honor- goes beyond just going along with laws and requirements for being in this country....it is ingrained into whom we are...Honor, integrity, value and love....these are the things we need to charitirize for our children and our youth.

This type of honor....is personal.....it is real...it is true.


Ask yourself, do you have HONOR?


"Mine honour is my life, both grow in one. Take honour from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die." — William Shakespeare, Richard II (1.1.182-185)