For the sake of humanity

This week a hit-and-run driver in Hartford Connecticut struck a 78-year-old man. This was not necessarily news as people are struck by cars everyday in this country. What makes this story sad it that the man lied motionless in the street for nearly five minutes, in front of a multitude of witnesses, and no one came to his assistance.

Pedestrians gawked but did nothing. One driver stopped briefly but then pulled back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circled the victim before zipping away. The chilling scene -- captured on video by a streetlight surveillance camera -- has touched off a round of soul-searching in Hartford, with the capital city's biggest newspaper blaring "SO INHUMANE" on the front page and the police chief lamenting: "We no longer have a moral compass."

How true. In many ways we have become a nation of individuals with no common core values with our fellow man. We have become desensitized to victims and emergencies. Egomania, self-centeredness, and no sense of Christian principles are having a profound impact on our Country. Many, no longer serve something greater than themselves. Instead, they just exist, like animals in a vast ecosystem.

Our culture no longer embraces life. And this incident is just a microcosm of a bigger picture: We no longer care for our fellow man and we no longer have a united America in which we all share the common values of God and Country.

I have concern for my children and my grandchildren’s America. I can only hope that they will see the folly of our ways and change it for their children.