Dear Mom and Dad,
Sorry I missed you when I tried to phone.
It’s hard to believe I’m already in my second semester of my freshman year. Classes are going well, and I was able to get a good deal on some textbooks.
I just wanted to tell you about something that happened today, because you’ll probably see it on the evening news.
Today Donald Trump came to speak to our chapel service. Well, it’s not really a chapel service, because calling it that messes up something; maybe it’s the accreditation, or state funding, or something. So they call it Convocation.
Anyway, Trump came to speak. Everybody was expected to attend. Somebody said there’s a $10 fine for skipping chapel, er, Convocation, so I went. The place was packed. Our president, Jerry Falwell Jr. took about 18 minutes — I checked the time on my phone — to introduce him, and mostly talked about the history of the college. I mean, we thought he was introducing Trump, but I think he kinda lost his way, not to mention spilling a glass of water and having his phone go off in the middle.
Then finally, Donald Trump walked on to the stage at our school, and spoke for 50 minutes.
Between that and being told last semester all the students should get a concealed carry permit — I mean nobody in our family even owns a hunting rifle — I’m kinda wondering what I’m doing here. I keep thinking that some people, like the Amish and the Mennonites and the Anabaptists don’t mix their politics with their faith the way we do here at Liberty U. And they get by without guns, too. And I’m reading that in other countries they don’t think like Americans do about religion and politics being so intertwined.
A few of my classmates are from Canada and they just roll their eyes anytime someone mentions government, or the debates, or the primaries or the election. They say it’s got nothing to do with what we are supposed to be learning.
Myself and two people in our dorm are driving to Pennsylvania this weekend to visit an Amish community. We’ve been invited to stay overnight. Some of them have a deal where you can do an extended stay and work with them on their farms. I’m thinking perhaps instead of doing my sophomore year right away I might —
–sorry, my R.A. is calling me to a dorm meeting. I’ll write again.
P.S.: Can you find out if we have any relatives in Canada?
Watch the entire Donald Trump event at Liberty (69 minutes) below or at this link.
Thinking Out Loud 
Our correspondent, if he/she did spend time living with the Amish, would learn that many of them do indeed own and use guns — for hunting.
Comment by Robert F — January 22, 2016 @ 8:00 pm