"Gettysburg Address"

      
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated , can long endure.  We are met on a great battle-field of that war.  We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who gave their lives that this nation might live.  It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate- we can not consecrate- we can not hallow- this ground.  The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.  The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.  It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.  It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

~Abraham Lincoln

U.S.A.

19 November, 1863 

~Beannaichte'

1 July, 2016

~Happy Independence Day!

Semper  Fidelis

~55,000 of our Women Veterans
remain homeless.
PLEASE visit www.finalsalute.org
for additional information.
~Thank You!

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"Patriot"

United we Stand- Divided we Fall

~Motto of July, 1942 Flag; U.S.A.

I have been watching the news and reading articles, regarding the government shut-down, this early Sunday morning. I can not say I totally understand, or agree, with what I have read and am seeing in the media.

What I do understand is that this is a great country, that is seriously going astray, and the tide needs to turn.

I am not a politician- I am a patriot. As such, so much of what is being said, on all sides, has little meaning to me.  Simply, it is easier for me to evaluate action and outcome-not inaction, with harmful consequences.

What does have meaning: Our government has taken a position of intellectual and patriotic vagrancy-especially in the House and the Senate.

  

It is time to put ego-centered politics aside, and re-open our government and do what is right, for the American people-the people you are obliged to serve and represent. It is time to make the necessary compromises, that will benefit the people,  prosper our country,  and get us back on course.

For this, you certainly have my support, and prayers.

Alicia O'Hara

13 October, 2013

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