Keeping Legacies Alive Can Restore American Values
Reflections on the 2026 mid-term election fallout, and a trip to rural Kansas to pay respects to the late Don Landoll… I don’t consider myself political. An ideological type maybe, but not political. But late at night last week Tuesday, my son, Drew, serving in the Middle East, texted to see if I was watching the mid-term elections. It was an unusual text from the 26-year-old Staff Sergeant, since most of our text banter since he’s left home centered on Milwaukee Brewers or wise-guy memories and movie quotes. Still texting at 6:52 a.m. his time, he was in tune with what was happening back home 6,100 miles away. Days later, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the elections as “close to an extinction-level event” for the Republicans. Others called it a “Watergate-level repudiation and a rebellion” against the GOP. I concluded our chat indicating that I hoped my son wouldn’t be “welcomed home” from his deployment to discover that socialism had taken over. The Next Day I awoke in an e
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Reflections on the 2026 mid-term election fallout, and a trip to rural Kansas to pay respects to the late Don Landoll… I don’t consider myself political. An ideological type maybe, but not political. But late at night last week Tuesday, my son, Drew, serving in the Middle East, texted to see if I was watching the mid-term elections. It was an unusual text from the 26-year-old Staff Sergeant, since most of our text banter since he’s left home centered on Milwaukee Brewers or wise-guy memories and movie quotes. Still texting at 6:52 a.m. his time, he was in tune with what was happening back home 6,100 miles away. Days later, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the elections as “close to an extinction-level event” for the Republicans. Others called it a “Watergate-level repudiation and a rebellion” against the GOP. I concluded our chat indicating that I hoped my son wouldn’t be “welcomed home” from his deployment to discover that socialism had taken over. The Next Day I awoke in an e
