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Nov.09.2011 - 11:15 am
  It was 1972, only the second time I'd voted in a presidential election. I was working full time and had two small children. My sister agreed to watch the little ones while...
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Jul.06.2011 - 9:02 am
Being proud of one's country is like being proud of one's race.  No part of being born into a certain country is in our hands just as race is not one of our own accomplishments. ...
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May.05.2011 - 11:25 pm
This year’s American high school graduates were, on average, seven years old on September 11, 2001.  They were in second grade.  Osama bin Laden was their real live boogie man. ...
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Jan.18.2011 - 3:54 pm
              I’m not a sentimental person.  Sentimental, according to my beloved Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, means “marked or governed by feeling, sensibility,...
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Comments from Yuma

Mar.26.2012 - 9:16 am
In response to: Why Be Proud?
Thanks, sumathi, for your kind words.
Nov.09.2011 - 12:30 pm
In response to: The Year of the Great Hoax
Wow!  So cynical.  For me the definition of naivete is not lack of awareness of the real world but thinking...
Jul.06.2011 - 7:19 pm
In response to: Patriots on the Radio? TV?
Thanks for your service, Neil, and not just on the battlefield. Posts like this are also serving your country by not...
Feb.02.2011 - 12:54 pm
In response to: 5 TIPS For China
Good advice. I hope your blog is available to those empowered to take it.
Feb.02.2011 - 12:05 pm
In response to: Jacqueline's Blog - Spiritual Pushes
Your writing of this experience is both compelling and encouraging. Thanks.