WHERE IS AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL–THE NATION THAT SAVED THE WORLD FROM TYRANNY FROM JAPAN AND GERMANY–SENT MEN TO THE MOON AND BACK–BUILT THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM IN 10 YEARS ACROSS AMERICA–THE CAN DO ATTITUDE GONE SINCE OUR PRESENT AS RUN BY LEFTIST LIBERAL DEMOCRATS LEADERS HAVE NOT LEAD US AND HAVE BEEN BLAIMING WE THE AMERICAN CITIZENS FOR ALL THE WRONG IN THE WORLD

When this writer was 3 years old, the Empire of Japan devastated Battleship Row of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Before I was 7, Gen. MacArthur was in an office in Tokyo overlooking the Imperial Palace, dictating to a shattered Japan.

In 1956, President Eisenhower, impressed by the autobahn he had seen in Hitler's Reich, ordered a U.S. Interstate Highway System built, tying America together, one of the great public works projects in history. Within a decade, the system was on its way to completion.

In 1961, John F. Kennedy said the United States, beaten into space by Nikita Khrushchev's Soviet Union, would put a man on the moon and return him to earth within the decade. In July 1969, President Nixon, on the deck of the carrier Hornet, welcomed home Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins of Apollo 11.

Whatever became of that America? What ever became of that can-do nation? What has happened to us?

This October saw the vaunted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fumbling over basic questions on how to protect Americans from an Ebola epidemic in three small countries of West Africa.

In September, an intruder with a knife climbed the White House fence, trotted across the North lawn, walked through the unlocked front door of the president's house, barreled over a female officer, and ran around the East Room before being tackled by a Secret Service agent going off duty. The president had just departed.

Days earlier, an armed security guard in Atlanta with a violent criminal past was allowed by Secret Service to ride an elevator with Barack Obama.

Last summer came reports that 60,000 children and young people from Central America had walked across the border into the United States, overwhelming our Border Patrol.

Last spring, we learned that sick and suffering vets were deliberately made to wait months for appointments to see VA doctors, and dozens may have died during the wait. Earlier, the rollout of ObamaCare, years in preparation, became a national joke and a metaphor for government incompetence.

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