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OPINIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
A CRY FOR HELP
I plead for someone to work to save our country.
I am heartbroken but what our country now represents with values lost from the past. This is not the country of life and freedom, with honor, protection and hope ad it was for all it’s citizens. It a land of gain and profit with no concern for the land’s future.
Please, someone save us from a future never meant for us.
A FRIGHTENING SIMILARITY
IMAGES OF HITLER
I first had this feeling whenever I saw Trump signing a new piece of legislation as all around him, Vic President Pence, Paul Ryan and others smiling and affirming their agreement, no matter
Dare they not?
I recall a meeting I once viewed of a meeting with Trump and his cabinet. Sitting around a table each member was given a chance to speak. The comments went around the table as each member present gave a glowing report of Trump’s presidency. Dare they do otherwise?
This recalled an image of Hitler. Reflections of his generals telling Hitler that all was fine as the world stumbled to chaos.
OUR NATION’S HEART WEEPS
I hesitate to write this piece. Knowing human nature I am sure many will write articles about the tragedy in Los Vegas to express sorrow but a hidden reason, perhaps hidden from themselves, is to draw attention. With this in mind I write this article, not to draw attention but to voice an attitude I don’t understand. Therefore, I am not including any taglines for this piece. I don’t
When Sandy Hook occurred resulting in the death of twenty six and seven year olds, I thought things may finally change. That the nation would wake up to a wrong some hold dear. I have nothing against hunting. But who hunts with a semi-automatic weapon. Handguns are used to protect one’s family. But who needs a semi-automatic pistol to protect that family. I don’t understand how anyone can purchase a mass amount of weapons and not raise a red flag.
As I hear the numbers of fatalities I think this is not a shooting, this is the result of a plane crash. Then when I hear the number of fatalities and wounded, I think, this is not a shooting, this is on the level of a natural disaster. Unfortunately, this disaster is all too natural in our country.
OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS
I fear our species
Is an experiment
To be eliminated
From our precious planet,
Greed and denial
Are the culprits,
Religions encourage
Our destruction,
Our mindset
Offers no help,
Our fate is sealed.
OBSERVATIONS & OPINIONS
What is happening in Houston few of us will never comprehend unless we experience such a disaster. There are so many stories that need to be told, here are some.
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HARVEY
I know I promised to begin posts about writing which is the purpose of this blog. But my mind is ready to explode with what is happening to this country. Please forgive me for venting some pressure.
I have read stories of those who died trying to help relatives and friends during Hurricane Harvey. These are the true Americans, not the ones gaining exposure on the news with acts not even close to what this country was meant to represent.
Those who gave their lives for others with no want for publicity are more worthy of our attention and praise then those who represent everything this country is not.
HOPE
No matter how this county is fuc#ed up, there is still hope.
Americans still care for each other even if those who pull the strings of our lives don’t.
OBSERVATIONS & OPINIONS
It is getting tiring.
I have no doubt this will be labeled ‘fake news’. All I can say is that our nation is in trouble.
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There are still a percentage of the population of this country who still think our president is doing a good job. This is a frightening example of how many in this country have had lobotomies. Even more frightening, a percentage of this population have not.
This is a free country, for now, where thought and opinion is not regulated. But common sense should also have some value.l
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CIVIL WAR STATUES
This post may cause me trouble, but we old people are not always right but we do have opinions.
I am distressed about the current trend, due to compassion and sensitivity, to remove the statues of Confederate figures. I will not deny that they represent a terrible part of our history of slavery and the attempt to tear our country apart.
But it did happen, and for better or worse, it is part of this countrie’s past. Are we to deny the future generations of this country to know we were not always right, and through extreme bloodshed, righted a wrong? A wrong which still persists to this day with not accepting no matter who we are we are all citizens of this great country. But I feel, because of present day circumstances we a spiraling on a downward road.
We sanitize everything these days; what happened happened and there is nothing we can do to change the past. We owe it to our future generations to know we were not always what we should have been.
Lastly, I often think of the men who participated in Pickett’s charge. The goal they wished to accomplish was far from right, but who can deny the courage those men displayed. And look into that history. Would anyone of you reading this piece haAve the courage, the guts, to do what these men did?
Finally, whether it is right or wrong, you cannot erase history. And as is often said, if history is not known it will be repeated.
Hope I haven’t stepped on too many sensitivities of my reader, but this is something I felt compelled to day.
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