What is happening in the US Today?

This is a question that I would really like an answer to, because it seems to me that we are headed right for destruction. I have been living on this earth for 39 going on 40 years, and through my many moons, there has been, and or continue to be a lot of devastation. I have seen or witness some on a personal level, as well as, keeping up to date via the TV, Internet, newspaper(s), or most commonly word of mouth.  

From the time I knew and or could understand what was going on in the world everything was fine but,  it seems that over the past two decade, things have been getting worst. I mean the bombings, shootings, and hate crimes, I just do not understand what is going wrong here in our United States today. We are suppose to live in what is considered the best country in the world, but for some reason,  we seem to have a problem with our own citizens wanting to take us down or demoralize us, and for the life of me I cannot understand WHY.

Just let me give you and example of what I have either seen or been through in the past twenty years.

Back in 1995 when I joined the army, I went to basic training in Fort Sill Oklahoma, and everything seemed to be fine. I did O.S.U.T (One Station Unit Training) which meant that after basic, I spent another three months, learning and understanding my M.O.S (Military Occupational Specialty). While we were training for our M.O.S, the Oklahoma City Bombing happened. In case you do not remember, this is where Timothy McVeigh drove a truck loaded with fertilizer and other items into the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 18, 1995.  The blast claimed 168 lives, including 19 children under the age of 6, and injured more than 680 people.

After basic & M.O.S training, I went to Fort Benning Ga, for jump school, and once I graduated I was sent to my regular duty post in Fort Bragg N.C, where I seen a couple of tragedies. From a Tree line shooting to where  "William J. Kreutzer, Jr.  is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted of killing one officer and wounding 18 other soldiers when he opened fire on a physical training formation on October 27, 1995 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina." I was standing in this formation when this actually happened.

Then two months latter while I was still stationed in Fort Bragg, three guys decided that they would go out and murder Jackie Burden, 27, and Michael James, 36,  two innocent African Americans,  mining their own business. I knew one of the people who committed this horrible crime, Malcolm Wright Jr was in my battery, I had worked along side of him alone a couple of times. I am an African American, and the man never once showed hospitality towards me. 

Then of of coarse came the tragic 9/11, not to mention all of these school shootings, and the most recent  Bombing in Boston. I just do not understand what the world is going on in this world today.

I just do not understand why we continue to turn on ourselves. It comes with out saying that if we continue on this current path of destruction, I wonder if my grand kids will have an opportunity to grow and prosper in these United States or more or less the World.

I Mean:                     I'm Not Stupid – I'm Just Saying!!