Before we all go heading off to our holiday fun, I'd like to pause a moment and give many thanks to the men and women who fought to establish our Country's independence some 239 years ago and built this great nation, granting us freedom of religion, of speech, taxation with representation, and so much more.
I am eternally grateful for those who sacrificed their lives to protect our country's shores at times, and for those who fought to hold this country together not even 100 years later.
I want to give thanks to, and honor the memory of the 207,590 U.S. war dead from World War I, and World War II, who died on foreign soil, and were buried there, to protect not just our freedoms, but the world's as well. And more thanks still, in honor of the men and women who have fought and died to protect our allies, and the rights of the abused, in the decades since.
What I do here is often sarcastic, but it is a privilege that none of should ever take for granted. That I am free to approach all of this with caustic derision, does not belie the fact we are blessed, and have been gifted a powerful right that many others do not have.
Being able to write about, and protest, what we have all experienced at the hands of this schools staff, and parents, and to post in an open forum just some of the issues with Charter Schools that need to be addressed is empowering. We are free to speak out and stand up for our neighborhood, and that opportunity to keep fighting and make our voices heard is something I hope none of us would ever take lightly.
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