BY THE AMERICAN LEGION -
THEODORE KORONY POST 253
The Theodore Korony
American Legion Post 253
August R Messerschmitt
Scholarships were awarded
to our two young ladies that
were unable to attend September’s
meeting. They received
their awards and we
congratulate both Giana Iazzetti
and Ava Salveggi . Giana
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Korony Post 253
is going into college and
Ava into high school. Best of
luck to you both.
BRONX TIMES R BTR EPORTER,OCTOBER 2-8, 2020 35
BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
Monumental changes do
not always occur with fanfare
and explosive action. Sometimes
they develop gradually
as a result of actions that
seemed relatively inconsequential
at fi rst but developed
into extraordinary alterations
in the very fabric of society.
That is currently occurring
in the United States. Since
the 1960s, radical takeovers
of the fi elds of education, journalism
and entertainment by
individuals and groups who
have a profoundly different
view of America than the majority,
has had an undeniable
impact.
At least two generations of
U.S. students have been taught
by educators who have an exceptionally
negative view of
the nation. Journalism, both
traditional and online, has
morphed from a profession
that sought to objectively inform
the public to one that
preaches a left-wing party line
to it. Hollywood has followed
that move as well.
The result is a nation profoundly
divided and substantially
divorced from accuracy
in its news reporting and educational
system, a society that
has forgotten how it achieved
unprecedented success and
established the most open society
in history. The left will
point out the horrors of slavery
and segregation but ignores
the reality that those
original sins, shared with
the rest of the world, have
been overcome.
All this has resulted in the
rise to power and infl uence of
politicians and pundits who
would alter America’s successful
path to one that resembles
nations that have failed
politically and economically.
The intensity of this underreported
change is stunning.
With all the power at its command,
the media has hidden
truths about the dangerous
path the nation is taking and
those who are making that
happen. Some examples:
Antifa is a fascist/socialist
movement, not much different
than those that wrought so
much horror throughout the
twentieth century.
The “Green New Deal” is
less about the environment
than about leftist economics.
Don’t take our word for
it. Analyze their own detailed
plans. The Paris Climate accord
it endorses would do little
for the environment, but
would wholly restructure the
world economy in a manner
that enriches Third World
despots and impoverishes
American workers.
Much of what you see on
entertainment outlets is heavily
infl uenced by money from
Communist Chinese and
much of what is taught on
college campuses shares the
same slant.
Anti-religion has become
in vogue for the American
Left. Keith Ellison, a follower
of anti-Semite Louis
Farrakhan, shockingly
serves as the Minnesota
Attorney General.
Catholics are clearly in the
crosshairs of the left. Catholic
nominees for appointed offi ce
have been harassed for their
religion. The issue of left-wing
and Progressive anti-Catholicism
has been growing for
several decades.
George Weigal, writing in
Commentary noted that “…
the editors of the New York
Times thought it appropriate
to warn the Catholic bishops
of the United States that
a too-vigorous exercise of
their teaching offi ce might destroy
the ‘truce of tolerance’
that has permitted Catholics
to operate in this country
at the sufferance of its
non-Catholic majority.”
Emma Green reported in
The Atlantic that Michael
Wear, the former director of
Barack Obama’s 2012 faith-outreach
efforts, found that ‘The
administration was unnecessarily
antagonistic toward religious
conservatives…’”
Evangelicals share a common
fate with Catholics.
As this column has repeatedly
noted, free speech has
become increasingly endangered.
The Senate Minority
Leader Charles Schumer, introduced
legislation to weaken
the First Amendment. Colleges
throughout the nation openly
intimidate and discriminate
against non-leftist students.
Merely wearing a “MAGA”
hat or having any known connection
to the Trump Administration
makes one a target of
physical assaults. It’s not the
assaults themselves that are
the most chilling; it’s the fact
that many major politicians
on the Left actually condone
and even encourage these
brutal attacks.
The nation has been substantially
altered, a fulfi llment
of Barack Obama’s
pledge to “fundamentally
transform” America.
BY BIANCHELLY DIPLAN
What I See in My
Neighborhood
I am a 16-year-old high
school student who lives in
the Bronx. I am concerned
because I have noticed many
tobacco advertisements in
my neighborhood about
vapes and hookah and they
are geared toward the youth.
The advertisements show
that these products have fl avors,
are endorsed by celebrities
and are branded with
words like “candy,” and fun
designs that resemble toys.
Why is this a problem? This
is a problem because it attracts
youth like myself
and my peers to want to buy
and use these products and
we can become addicted
to them.
In NYC about 45,000 public
high school students use
e-cigarettes. The use of ecigarettes,
also called ENDS,
is higher among high school
students than adults in NY,
with 43.8 percent of students
having tried ENDS. These
numbers are scary because
more and more teens are
unaware of the dangers and
think these products are cool
and fun to use.
Most of the youth are unaware
of the damages and
health effects of e-cigarette
use. E-cigarettes contain nicotine
which comes from tobacco.
Nicotine is addictive
and the use of e-cigarettes
can lead to use of other tobacco
products like cigarettes,
cigars, hookah and
even smokeless tobacco especially
among the youth.
E-cigarettes can also impact
people’s health such
as causing eye and respiratory
infl ammation as well as
airway constriction.
The infl uence of the media
and social media also has an
impact of youth usage of e-cigarettes.
The media is powerful
and can impact a youth’s
decisions to try these products.
Teenagers think they
know it all but they don’t. It’s
important that they educate
themselves on the facts and
not be infl uenced by others
especially by Big Tobacco to
use and try these products.
I am a member of NYC
Smoke-Free’s Reality Check
program. NYC Smoke-Free
educates youth to help us
further raise awareness in
our communities, and share
this information among our
peers. It’s important that we
continue to support these
programs because they are
helping to educate save a lot
of teenagers’ lives from the
addiction of tobacco products
such as e-cigarettes.
For more information
on NYC Smoke-Free
or to lend support in ending
NYC’s devastating tobacco
epidemic please visit
www.NYCSmokeFree.org.
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