I was drafted 10 days before my 21st birthday. I arrived in Viet Nam before I was 22. More naive guy you have never met. Like a fool, I really believed that if a person was in a position of power, like a cop, a politician, a coach, he or she was special. Special like more honest than the rest of the population, with a higher sense of morality, one who was fair and loyal and looked out for the little guy. Needless to say, Read Full Story…
I don’t remember ever being taught chivalry, but when we were growing up we learned to pull the chair for a woman, help her with her coat, give her our seat in the bus. Women back than enjoyed the attention of men much more than they do today.
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Most people become wiser as they get older. You would think that a country like America would take the same path… au contraire.
When I first set foot in this country in the 60′s, America was America, where one found the opportunity to work and the dollar you made was worth its weight in gold. Real estate was cheap and Read Full Story…
I firmly believe that there is no universal “right” and no universal “wrong.” What is wrong for A is totally right for B. So where does that leave us? It leaves me with the belief that morality is not a guide to live by but only the byproduct of one’s own behavior. “What I do is right and what you do is wrong, therefore I am a moral person and your are morally corrupt.”
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Among the benefits we enjoy as a free country, one of the most valuable is the freedom of speech. Some of the most intelligent people that ever lived have seen the beauty of it and have used it in a positive, productive way. We cannot give freedom of speech only to the chosen few, but must be afforded to one and all. In doing so, freedom of speech is used for expressing thoughts Read Full Story…
It has been my observation during my time on this green earth that “people” try to control one another. Husbands, wives, friends, significant others, government, teachers, bosses, people in “power,” etc., etc. It is a world where eveybody wants to control everybody else. Read Full Story…
