Secede from Union...Say WHAT?!

What Year is This??

America is a strong nation because we are united...ONE Nation Under GOD.

History is a story we all read about. It is real but we can't identify with the era, the time, the conditions of the Civil War. We weren't there. Most of us can't deal with the boredom that comes when there is NO electricity....and when we do lose power, we experience death counts in the news either from heat exposure or from the cold.

Can you imagine what a civil war would be like today??!?!?!???! With the weapons of today and brother against brother. IF we did have states that left the union that has held us together as ONE Nation.....

WHO would we choose as our leaders?

WHERE would they come from?

Where would the boundaries be?

What would happen to our highway networks? For some would take you through to another "Country" or "Nation" for which you would then need a passport....and documentation....and if the division of seceding states wasn't "North and South" or "East and West"....you may have to travel through several newly formed nations to get to where you need to be.

Picture it....The South rises again! The West goes wild! Does our military divide?...Hardly. Troops would be called in to home-base ..where ever that may be...Washington? Home to our soldiers would NOT be home. The freedom they defend...which side would they fight on? Without a government set up to lead and no funds to fuel it....Starting from scratch over 200 years later??

Picture all the fallout movies you have ever seen....and every war movie and civil war movie....and set it in TODAY's time...My thoughts leap to "Red Dawn"...the Patrick Swayze version.Many of us have friends all over the country. Maybe all over the world. And relatives who are scattered from sea to shining sea...think of suddenly living in different countries though no one has changed their geographic location...

Speaking of global possibilities. America divided...a nation now two trying to rebuild in the global world of today....we --who have helped build up other nations after war has ravaged them---would be weakened beyond imagining. The advantage we would be HANDING over to the world's unfriendly countries.....

It all paints a very UGLY picture for my mind's eye to behold.

Can you picture the reality of it?

Now think of the economic aspects of it all....disasterous!

so now that you have "listened" to me ramble on and on and babble about so many random aspects that don't even scratch the surface......tell me what YOU think....

April 19th...America

April 19th. It brings alot of topics to the surface for alot of people.
I have seen several posts today on facebook regarding the Federal Building in OKC.
I even saw a post from a "dentist in Australia".

Times like April 19th...so many years ago...(and 9/11) make you wonder what this world is and has come to.Tragedies like the Murrah Federal Building and 9/11 bring people together hopefully more so than the events tore them apart. The Memorial in Oklahoma City is a beautiful site. If you get the chance, visit it.
It brings a reminder of what people can do to rebuild, to strengthen and to grow when tragedy does strike.

The writing I saw posted on facebook today was touching. I looked it up on snopes.com.
I want to share the writing with you even though it wasn't written by an Australian Dentist. It still rings a nice chord:
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/america2.asp
by: Peter Ferrera
George Mason University, School of Law
Northern Virginia

To Kill an American 
You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American. 

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found one.

'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian , or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than inAfghanistan . The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion.. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous.. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!

As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan ...
The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. 
Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.


 But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. 
They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. 


Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

I enjoy the diversity put into this article. Regardless of who wrote it...It has some valid points.
It reminds me of how people can come together. It reminds of of a more "Norman Rockwell" time and what I hope is part of the future my children will inherit...peace, love, consideration for humankind and the good things in life that shine even at some of the worst of times.
Let me know what you think....leave a comment.