American Fathers by Ron Schutz

Author:Ron Schutz [Ron Schutz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2017-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Dear Sasha,

What great news! I am celebrating with you! It was your careful research that carried the day, wasn’t it? Any enterprise, great or small, begins and ends with research.

Even the most important job of being a citizen requires that we know how the government works and what the issues are. Why do you think that so few United States citizens actually do the work required to be citizens? Why do you think they fixate on Presidential elections and fail to vote for congressional candidates? Why do they complain but never read? What are your thoughts on this?

Politics, politics, huh? I know you are wondering why I sent my letter by homing pigeon instead of by the U.S. Post Office. I was actually stationed in the Russian Navy for five years and had many enjoyable hours of training and raising homing pigeons on an aircraft carrier. It is still a part of the culture in the Middle East. I sent Ralph the Pigeon with your letter because I get a kick out of it. Believe me, I’m not trying to avoid postal carriers, I just have a few homing pigeons and couldn’t resist.

As for the medical report attached: Sasha, I am grateful for your trust and openness toward me as your father. Still, just to calm any questions that might arise regarding my paternity, I have sent you my DNA test results. You can run your own test and have a technician compare the results. That way, when I irritate you or worse and you are inclined to declare us unrelated, you can know that we are joined both by affection and by biology.

I actually met you once before. You may not remember. I drove you and Nur out of China, over the mountains and into Turkey. I carried you up the stairs to the hotel room in Ankara. You were only a little boy. I’ve cherished that memory many times over the years. It was the last time I held your mother in my arms. And, yes, she did say that phrase about “attracting what you are” to me as well. The old yogi who raised her did a remarkable job, I must say. I look at the blank faces of some young people today, and I wonder what creative and brilliant minds lie asleep under an addiction of AV stimulation. Am I being age-ist? Have I stereotyped all young people, ascribing emptiness to their stoicism?

I do wonder who values being good or, as Socrates described it, having “virtue”? Two of the candidates who are running for office, Trump and Clinton, both have ethical shortcomings. In a society where people are invested in research and in civic action, would they have emerged as candidates in the general election? I doubt it. These two people are a reflection of a society that is too distracted to pay close attention.

Some would say we U.S. citizens are hard-pressed to survive and must work to pay taxes and high prices—so much so that

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