Long time since I wrote on the blog. Been so busy! Hopefully I can get back to writing and exploring now that I moved back to South Carolina!

Friday Red shirt days

Red Shirt If the red shirt thing is new to you, read below how it went for a man... Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a folded flag, but did not put two and two together. After we boarded our flight, I turned to the sergeant, who'd been invited to sit in First Class (across from me), and inquired if he was heading home. No, he responded. Heading out I asked? No. I'm escorting a soldier home. Going to pick him up? No. He is with me right now. He was killed in Iraq , I'm taking him home to his family. The realization of what he had been asked to do hit me like a punch to the gut. It was an honor for him. He told me that, although he didn't know the soldier, he had delivered the news of his passing to the soldier's family and felt as if he knew them after many conversations in so few days. I turned back to him, extended my hand, and said, Thank you. Thank you for doing what you do so my family and I can do what we do. Upon landing in Chicago the pilot stopped short of the gate and made the following announcement over the intercom. "Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to note that we have had the honor of having Sergeant Steeley of the United States Marine Corps join us on this flight He is escorting a fallen comrade back home to his family. I ask that you please remain in your seats when we open the forward door to allow Sergeant Steeley to deplane and receive his fellow soldier. We will then turn off the seat belt sign." Without a sound, all went as requested. I noticed the sergeant saluting the casket as it was brought off the plane, and his action made me realize that I am proud to be an American. So here's a public Thank You to our military Men and Women for what you do so we can live the way we do. Red Fridays. Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing Red every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our troops used to be called the "silent majority." We are no longer silent, and are voicing our love for God, country and home in record breaking numbers. We are not organized, boisterous or overbearing. Many Americans, like you, me and all our friends, simply want to recognize that the vast major it of America supports our troops. Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops with dignity and respect starts this Friday -- and continues each and every Friday until the troops all come home, sending a deafening message that ... Every red-blooded American who supports our men and women a far, will wear something red. By word of mouth, press, TV -- let's make the United States on every Friday a sea of red much like a homecoming football game in the bleachers. If every one of us who loves this country will share this with acquaintances, coworkers, friends, and family, it will not be long before the USA is covered in RED and it will let our troops know the once "silent" majority is on their side more than ever, certainly more than the media lets on. The first thing a soldier says when asked "What can we do to make things better for you?" is. "We need your support and your prayers." Let's get the word out and lead with class and dignity, by example, and wear something red every Friday. IF YOU AGREE -- THEN SEND THIS ON. IF YOU COULDN'T CARE LESS -- THEN HIT THE DELETE BUTTON

Another soldier is coming home

Teacher's letter to Obama

TEACHER SLAMS OBAMA
>
> >
>
> > April 17,
> 2009
>
> > The White
> House
>
> > 1600
> Pennsylvania Avenue NW
>
> >
> Washington
> , DC 20500
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > Mr.
> Obama:
>
> > I have
> had it with you and your administration,
> sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas
> has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative
> of the United States of
> America
>
> >
> collectively or of me personally.
>
> >
>
> > You are
> so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim
> world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the
> President of the United States of America
> . You are responsible to the citizens of the
> United States .. You are not responsible to
> the
>
> > peoples
> of any other country on earth.
>
> >
>
> > I
> personally resent that you go around the world apologizing
> for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant
> and do not care about their status in the
> world. Sir, what do you think the First World War
> and the Second World War were all about if not the
> consideration of the peoples of Europe
> ?
>
> > Are you
> brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan
> was all about? Do you not understand or know the
> history of the 20th century?
>
> >
>
> > Where do
> you get off telling a Muslim country that
> the United States does not consider itself a
> Christian country? Have you not read the
> Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the
> United States ? This country was founded on
> Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this
> country, at least until you came along, come directly from
> this heritage. Do you not understand
> this?
>
> >
>
> > Your
> bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront
> to all Americans. Our President does not bow down
> to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi
> Arabia. You don't show Great Britain, our
> best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve
> yet you bow
>
> > down to
> the king of Saudi Arabia. How dare you,
> sir! How dare you!
>
> > You
> can't find the time to visit the graves of our greatest
> generation because you don't want to offend the Germans
> but make time to visit a mosque
> in Turkey. You offended our dead and
> every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than
> the people who saved the German people from
> themselves. What's the matter with
> you?
>
> >
>
> > I am
> convinced that you and the members of your administration
> have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle
> and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of
> you.
>
> >
>
> > You are
> so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the
> American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the
> real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank,
> Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and
> the Freddie Mac bonuses.
>
> > What do
> you intend to do about
> them? Anything? I seriously doubt
> it. What about the U.S. House members passing out
> $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members - on top of
> the $2.5 million in
>
> > automatic
> pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I
> understand the average House aide got a 17%
> bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs
> with my employer. You haven't said anything
> about that. Who authorized that? I
> surely didn't!
>
> >
> Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving
> $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period,
> that's $45 million more than the AIG
> bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie
> executives
have
> already been awarded $51 million - not a bad
> take. Who authorized that and why haven't you
> expressed your outrage at this group who are largely
> responsible for the economic mess we
> have
>
> > right
> now?
>
> >
>
> > I resent
> that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and
> not caring about what you idiots
> do.
>
> > We are
> watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly
> fed up with all of you.
>
> >
>
> > I also
> want you to know that I personally find just about
> everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my
> sensibilities.
>
> >
>
> > I promise
> you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a
> chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful
> country.
>
> >
>
> >
> Sincerely,
>
> >
>
> > Ms
> Kathleen Lyday
>
> > Fourth
> Grade Teacher

Shannon Kimbrell

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It begans with me

Are you tired of our country spiraling out of control? Our you discouraged at our morals which are in utter decay? Why did we try and fix something that was not broke? In the 1940 s and 1950 s there was not the crime rate, dismay, and suicide that is plaguing our country today. We need to start standing up and saying that the fix for this situation begins with me. Slowly but surely together we can turn this tide but we need to do it before it is too late.

Is our schools "dumbing" down our children?

I had an interview today with a gentleman who was very upset about this subject. He said he attended a certain college where he actually outscored the incoming high school students on the placement tests. He graduated in 1972 from high school and he was very upset over the downturn of our schools. I told him that me and my husband are planning on homeschooling because of this fact and also because I will not permit my child to go somewhere that he is not allowed to take "Jesus". They say we offend them, but they are equally as offensive. Example: Miss California had every right to answer the question the way she did, just as Perez had every right to ask the question. We now live in a nation were there is no wrong or right, or let me clarify this: rather we live in a nation were morals and standards are now wrong.
Is it working? Do you really think that this new world order is working? Is there more respect for each other? NO! Instead there is more divisive issues every day. Our schools need to get back to what was working, no hidden agendas, no hidden anything, just good old fashioned math, reading, and english along with teaching the kids American history. Science is also good because we need people who do research and solves problems.
Lets stop making excuses and start working on solutions. It is about time we start thinking of our children instead of promoting our hidden agendas.