Emma's Army
Emma O'Doud is tired...
...and not just because she's 86
This fierce, feisty patriot is tired of what's been happening to her beloved country, of sinister, woke, menacing forces -- like some of her neighbors at the retirement home -- pushing it toward socialism and mediocrity.
She thinks a lot of other people feel that way, too, and sets out to find them.
When she does, she leads millions of angry seniors, determined to save their vanishing America, in a "Ramble on Washington."
Congressmen and bureaucrats cower behind locked doors as Emma, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, delivers the marchers' demands for a return to traditional values and a united America.
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And she has a message for today's generation:
"You have been entrusted with a precious gift, the beacon of democracy, liberty, freedom. Do not squander it, do not let this light go out, or you and your descendants will answer to history. We will curse you from our graves if you fritter away the precious gift that was handed on to you through our ancestors. If America goes extinct, the world will slip into another Dark Ages from which it might never emerge."
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