Saturday was an intense interesting day. I completed the class necessary to be eligible for a permit to carry a concealed firearm. The intensity was due to the instructor's emphasis on all of the responsibilities you assume when you make the decision to carry that weapon. The responsibility of your life, someone else's life and the legal abbess resulting from an event. The fact that, once you make a decision to protect, you must present the weapon and fire in a split second. Failure to react correctly would probably result in loss of your life and the lives of others in proximity. Am I ready to assume that responsibility? I have not answered that question. Will I complete the process for the permit? Yes. Will I carry concealed? Probably.
Will I ever use the weapon defensively? I pray that I won't have to!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Veterans' Day and a Call
Many times in our 200+ year history men and women have stepped forward to honor the proposal of our fore fathers. The proposal that each of us, as U.S. Citizens, have the RIGHT OF FREEDOM to pursue happiness. Every veteran, whether drafted or volunteered, has stood on the wall of The U.S. Constitution to insure and defend that RIGHT and FREEDOM from threats, real and perceived, coming from outside our borders. Some of us did not return from that wall. We as a Nation are ever indebted to remember and honor that ultimate sacrifice. Those of us, who have returned from the wall, have the duty to still stand tall, proud, and at the ready to commemorate our fallen patriots. We, veterans and active duty military, have the responsibility to remind, by example, our Nation's Citizens of their responsibility to uphold that 200 year old Proposal.
Our Nation is currently under siege from within. We, having falsely perceived that happiness is measured by quantity of bobbles, have subjugated our RIGHT, our children and our grand children to public and private debt, which threatens the very FREEDOM of our fore father's proposal. As a Nation, we are becoming indefensible by reason of apathy for LOVE. The apathetic LOVE for God Jehovah, our self, our neighbor and our Nation severely threatens the RIGHT OF FREEDOM.
Veterans, we need to return to the Wall. Return not with gun but with honor, dignity and compassion. Honor God The Father as we did when we stood on the wall and prayed for protection and life. Dignity with which we defend our moral and just purpose as we put our own houses in order in love, discipline and finance. Compassion for those not a strong as we lift them up that they may stand on their own. Together Veterans, we heed to band again in the leadership model that makes the United States of America the beacon to the world for The EIGHT OF FREEDOM.
God Bless the Veteran and God Bless the United States of Ameica.
Our Nation is currently under siege from within. We, having falsely perceived that happiness is measured by quantity of bobbles, have subjugated our RIGHT, our children and our grand children to public and private debt, which threatens the very FREEDOM of our fore father's proposal. As a Nation, we are becoming indefensible by reason of apathy for LOVE. The apathetic LOVE for God Jehovah, our self, our neighbor and our Nation severely threatens the RIGHT OF FREEDOM.
Veterans, we need to return to the Wall. Return not with gun but with honor, dignity and compassion. Honor God The Father as we did when we stood on the wall and prayed for protection and life. Dignity with which we defend our moral and just purpose as we put our own houses in order in love, discipline and finance. Compassion for those not a strong as we lift them up that they may stand on their own. Together Veterans, we heed to band again in the leadership model that makes the United States of America the beacon to the world for The EIGHT OF FREEDOM.
God Bless the Veteran and God Bless the United States of Ameica.
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