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I Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident

I copied my recent piece from Yabberz here. I try to keep a lot of this separated but this is a compilation of emotions that belong here as much as anywhere. I received some wonderful replies and hardly a bad one. It is as someone said a wonderful manifesto to the way I feel and they couldn't agree more. Thanks.

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This is not about politics, or personalities any longer. That choice has been made and it is time to move, to work, to enable, to heal, and yes, to love.
You see before all this, before all of this divisiveness got crunchy and thick. There was a country and a people that I could truly be proud of. That belief has never left me in my lifetime, there was never a moment when I believed that we were a nation without a soul.
It is being challenged, and pulled, and twisted and diminished by some, but there it is, a very alive, and very much a capable soul.
I have come to the conclusion that I must apologize for my past remarks. I must make amends to those that I have disparaged, their voice as important as any in this. My mind is clear and my choice is clear, I still love my country and that includes the good, the bad and the ugly. Whether that is represented through actions, policies or personalities.
So as folks continue this campaign season, I will resist the temptation to lower myself into the poverty of insults and the dearth of humanity. I will provide those who are afraid to look a chance to see our country again. The America that we know and some still love, some still care for, some still wish to go forward with their heads held high. I still and will always be an American first, as long as the principles of Liberty and Freedom are the cause.
This is now about my country and the experiences, The service and my reflections. You see I still believe, I won't stop believing, I cannot with any ounce of my being be made not to believe. My father, my family, my friends and more were laid to rest under that flag we see waving today. I promised them an enduring rest and they promised me and delivered to me everything I ever could imagine and dream. That right there is one hell of a gift, and even with all of the challenges and wrongs along the way, I knew it, and anything could be done.
Stories of my Father and I when I was a child and our trip to see the Freedom Train during the Bi-Centennial. How he pointed to the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima and said that guy was a medic, became a doctor etc...
Stories of the heroes that strive and thrive here today from everyday housewives to the Vet's, and businesses that are continuing to make America a better place for all, not just some or some number, but the 100% that is all of us.
There is, and has been for a while now, a knowing of a coming change. From financial markets to human rights and International relations. Climate change and dwindling resources, a great extinction event and the upcoming Geo-Political mapping of the world. We have been lax in our duties in pushing these issues forward through an antiquated political system that is bound by ideologies dystopian to survival of not only our country, but our planet as well.
We will be seeing over half the population of our world impacted by climate change over the next eight years. From massive drought throughout food belts to a third of humanity that will be effected in China's upcoming ecological devastation. Water issues are not a third world issue any longer and even Saudi Arabia is making arrangements for when the oil runs out. The melting of the Polar Ice Caps will not only bring unprecedented sea level rise and destruction, but also a play and battle of some kind for the resources the receding ice contains. Needing to recognize that corporations are not the answer but the cause of much of this expedited funeral arrangements we are seeing now. Their human waste no longer welcome.
My country is not done, you cannot stick a fork in it and call it good or bad. We are what we are, a group of free people trying to do the best we can with all, and I mean all of this stuff against us. That wish to be born in another time is a universal theme, I think this will be one of the ones our grandchildren will pass on though. So going forward, this is not the time to be arguing amongst ourselves like children. That is how we got here. Now is the time to try to come up with some solutions, some debate, some middle ground, without all of the insults, without all the dismissal and lies, but honest conversation. I can't stand a good half of you and your right wing politics but I see the good people you ALL are, I see the true America in ALL of you. WE have a whole lot of work to do, and maybe, just maybe we could snatch the title of the Greatest Generation from our parents and grandparents, I couldn't think of a thing they would be more happy about. I truly wish you all the best.

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