Farmers deserve our respect

I recently attended a farm equipment auction, I'm guessing there were around 100 or so in attendance. I came away from that day with some strong feelings of what I had seen. Most of the crowd was well into their 60's and 70's.

And as I looked them over throughout the event I saw that so many of them showed the signs of having been bent, broken and physically worn out by lives of honest hard work. At least two old boys were getting around with walkers.

Where will we find their equal? Men (and women) willing to work so hard and sacrifice so much to grow the crops and raise the livestock to feed a nation. A nation being "fundamentally changed" into one where "children" remain under their parents roofs well into their late 20's and even 30's.

Being dumbed down by an educational system that promotes that, so the "children" can "pursue their passion and live their dream." What?

Yeah I saw some brand new pickup trucks out in the parking lot (a farm field), not many, but some. I'd bet that not many were paid off already with that "rich farmer" money. I'm sure there must have been at least one diamond ring in the crowd. Though I never saw it.

What I saw was faded jeans, worn work boots and tattered coveralls and nearly every gray-haired head was topped off with a dirty sweat-stained ball cap emblazoned with the logos of the businesses that serve our farmers and ranchers.

I for one would like to here and now say THANK YOU to them. Like our veterans, there would be no America without them.

Jon Smith

Moses Lake