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My father is a great man. He is my hero. He fought in
WW2, was injured, and came back to a country that never recognized the
injuries sustained from a Kamakazi attack to his ship. He was a
Gunner's Mate. When the Japanese attack and suicide plane zeroed
in on his ship, he ran for cover down a bulkhead as bullets struck his
ship prior to impact. When the suicide bomber hit his ship, the
impact made him loose his grip and fall two floors down onto his knee
and a metal floor. With the injury to his knee, he took his
station to help put out the fire.
We, his 7 children, always remember him telling us he could not
play ball with us due to his injury. It is my father's wishes
that we always remember and recognize the great men and women that
serve this country in the armed forces, and I will always honor his
wishes for they are mine too.
That said, I must also state that the war with Iraq was wrong.
There were no weapons of mass destruction found and that was the
impetus for war. It was a deception used by a leader taking
us down the wrong road for his own personal reasons. I will
always believe this, and history will be our judge.
We are now in the stages of selecting a new Presidential leader.
When I was a child, I remember my mom and dad using my dad's meager
earnings as a car mechanic to buy us an encyclopedia set. Yes,
that was my internet and portal to the world in the 1960's. I
remember reading and going over it and how things were
structured. When I got to the P's, I got to Presidents, and there
were pictures of nothing but all white-men. I saw no women,
African-American, and needless to say, no Chicano. It remains an
unbroken standard in this country.
Today, we have people running for president that can change that, but
most important of all, change the course of this country. U.S. of
America is disliked by many countries in our world. Our
governmental leadership has spent a lot of money on the Iraq war, and
greed, arrogance and stupidity, has played into it all too well. The next president
should not ride the helm based on their legacy. The current president
did, he is the son of a previous president which enjoyed only 1 term in
office and did not listen to his own calling, "It's the economy
stupid." The current woman candidate for president from the
Democratic Pary, Hillary Clinton, husband was president for 2
terms. And yes, Bill did get blow-jobs while in office, and
Hillary's forgiven him, but there's got to be more than just this dynamic duo, or another shrub, in office.
Strategically, Hillary Clinton went to New York
after Bill's turn in
office with the objective of becoming senator of that state to get her
turn at the presidency. It has nothing to do with experience,
she had gotten Bill in, and now it was her turn. So we are
now seeing a new picture emerge in this diary of presidents for this
country, where family members want the baton passed on to them, making
the
institution of becoming President of the United States of America a
monarchy instead of a democracy.
Barack Obama speaks a dialectic that unites, I have heard it, and
on this great day celabrating Martin Luther King, I believe it will
bring peace and diversity to this
land. It will bring a face that doesn't come from the same
family, and that for me is important for that is "true" change!
Good luck Mr. Obama.
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