2013

Starting a new year, raises many questions of what, where, when and how things may happen.  We find ourselves uncertain about our life and how new developments will affect it during this coming year. 
People will die, babies born, couples marry......in all I'm sure it will be an eventful year as the one before it.  I only hope that with all the problems our world faces, we as people can find a common way to survive together.

Senseless

How is it that we have come down to this crap?  People are loosing their minds and taking it out on innocent others.  It's a horrible thing to go to school and be killed at such young ages.  It's bad to be a fireman, answer a call to burning homes, and be shot when you arrive.  I realize that people are hurting, but killing because you are hurting, doesn't change a thing.  It makes things worse, and people afraid to try and have a normal life. 
You have no idea whether or not you will return home from a shopping spree?  You don't know if someone will break into your home, rob you and kill you?  Things are crazy and that makes people fear.  Fear can cause people to react in a different manner than they would normally. 
How can things get better?  I honestly don't know!

Soldier Christmas

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, HE LIVED ALL ALONE,
IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE.

I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,
AND TO SEE JUST WHO IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.

I LOOKED ALL ABOUT, A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,
NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS, NOT EVEN A TREE.

NO STOCKING BY MANTLE, JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,
ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.

WITH MEDALS AND BADGES, AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,
A SOBER THOUGHT CAME THROUGH MY MIND.

FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT, IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,
I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER, ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.

THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING, SILENT, ALONE,
CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.

THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE, THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,
NOT HOW I PICTURED A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.

WAS THIS THE HERO OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?
CURLED UP ON A PONCHO, THE FLOOR FOR A BED?

I REALIZED THE FAMILIES THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,
OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.

SOON ROUND THE WORLD, THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,
AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.

THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,
BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS, LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.

I COULDN'T HELP WONDER HOW MANY LAY ALONE,
ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.

THE VERY THOUGHT BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,
I DROPPED TO MY KNEES AND STARTED TO CRY.

THE SOLDIER AWAKENED AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,
'SANTA DON'T CRY, THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;

I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,
MY LIFE IS MY GOD, MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS.'

THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,
I COULDN'T CONTROL IT, I CONTINUED TO WEEP.

I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS, SO SILENT AND STILL
AND WE BOTH SHIVERED FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.

I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,
THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR SO WILLING TO FIGHT.

THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER, WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,
WHISPERED, 'CARRY ON SANTA, IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE.'

ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH, AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
'MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,! AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.'

 

This poem was written by a Marine...........

Understanding?

I don't know if there are others who are having these questions, like I have or not?  I have this question about the Security Plan that was supposed to be in effect at the "Sandy Hook School"?  From the information the news media has given, we are led to believe that someone should have been able to see this person had a weapon?  It is reported that he forced his way into the school?  If there was a locked door and you had to ring a bell, plus be recognized or issue ID and sign in, then what happened? 
Yes, his mother worked there from time to time.  But why would he have a reason to go there if his mother wasn't working that day?  News reports tell us that he shot her at home?  Then he drove to the school and forced his way in.  If the Security Plan was being implemented in the manner they suggest, then how did he force his way in?  This matter hasn't been explained to the public people and I have questions about it.  Maybe, I'm being overly critical about this but a Security Plan, is exactly that.

December 7th

I Pledge.......

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. – Patrick Henry