In light of recent events here in the United States and around the world I feel compelled to express my concerns about the direction the citizens of this planet are headed. This page is just a place where I can voice my opinions and thoughts. If you wish to respond to anything you read here you may use the links below to E-mail me privately or post a message in my guest book where anyone who visits this site will be able to access it.
It has been a very long time since I have been able to spend some time updating this website but I hope to spend some time in the very near future to not only update but also do a little revamping. In the mean time I have received a very poignant e-mail which I will post here. I do not have the author's contact information so I could not get permission to use it but I have posted it here in it's entirety. I hope you like it.
My thanks to the author....
I sat in a movie
theater watching "Schindler's List," asked myself, "Why didn't the Jews fight
back?"
Now I know why.
I sat in a movie theater, watching "Pearl
Harbor" and asked myself, "Why weren't we prepared?"
Now I know why.
Civilized people cannot fathom, much less predict, the actions of evil
people.
On September 11, dozens of capable airplane passengers allowed themselves to
be overpowered by a handful of poorly armed terrorists because they did not
comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated their captors.
On September 11, thousands of innocent people were murdered because too many
Americans naively reject the reality that some nations are dedicated to the
dominance of others. Many political pundits, pacifists and media personnel want
us to forget the carnage. They say we must focus on the bravery of the rescuers
and ignore the cowardice of the killers. They implore us to understand the
motivation of the perpetrators. Major television stations have announced they
will assist the healing process by not replaying devastating footage of the
planes crashing into the
Twin Towers.
I will not be manipulated.
I will not pretend to understand.
I will not forget.
I will not forget the liberal media who abused freedom of the press to kick
our country when it was vulnerable and hurting.
I will not forget that CBS anchor Dan Rather preceded President Bush's
address to the nation with the snide remark, "No matter how you feel about him,
he is still our president."
I will not forget that ABC TV anchor Peter Jennings questioned President
Bush's motives for not returning immediately to
Washington, DC and
commented, "We're all pretty skeptical and cynical about Washington."
And I will not forget that ABC's Mark Halperin warned if reporters weren't
informed of every little detail of this war, they aren't "likely - nor should
they be expected - to show deference."
I will not isolate myself from my fellow Americans by pretending an attack on
the USS Cole in Yemen was not an attack on the
United States of
America.
I will not forget the Clinton administration equipped Islamic terrorists and
their supporters with the world's most sophisticated telecommunications
equipment and encryption technology, thereby compromising America's ability to
trace terrorist radio, cell phone, land lines, faxes and modem communications.
I will not be appeased with pointless, quick retaliatory strikes like those
perfected by the previous administration.
I will not be comforted by "feel-good, do nothing" regulations like the
silly, "Have your bags been under your control?" question at the airport.
I will not be influenced by so called, "antiwar demonstrators" who exploit
the right of __expression to chant anti-American obscenities.
I will not forget the moral victory handed the North Vietnamese by American
war protesters who reviled and spat upon the returning soldiers, airmen, sailors
and marines.
I will not be softened by the wishful thinking of pacifists who chose
reassurance over reality.
I will embrace the wise words of Prime Minister Tony Blair who told the Labor
Party conference, "They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the
innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000, does anyone doubt
they would have done so and rejoiced in it?
There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of minds, and no
point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated
by it. And defeat it we must!"
I will force myself to:
-hear the weeping
-feel the helplessness
-imagine the terror
-sense the panic
-smell the burning flesh
- experience the loss
- remember the hatred.
I sat in a movie theater, watching "Private Ryan" and asked myself, "Where
did they find the courage?"
Now I know.
We have no choice. Living without liberty is not living.
-- Ed Evans, MGySgt. USMC (Ret.)
Not as lean, Not as mean, But still a Marine.
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