Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] [RC] I had a wonderful time. - Howard Bramhall - Barbara McCrary
America was a new start and a nurturing home
for young man from Russia, who escaped from there by the skin of his teeth
during the Revolution, arriving in San Francisco with the clothes on his back
and very little money. Couldn't speak English, but went right to work
finding a job, learning our language, working hard, making friends with his
kindness, his courteous ways, his honesty and integrity. Then he met an
American woman whom he engaged to teach him English and ended up being engaged
to marry her. He never met a person he didn't like, nor one who didn't
like him. He was a very special person, my father.
Barbara
And if you want to equate this to endurance,
think of him taking four years to reach the east coast of Siberia, think of him
living off bread and tea for a month, think of him joining the Czar's navy so he
could eat, think of him taking the risks he did to come to America. He was
only 18 when he left what remained of his home in western Russia.
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] [RC] I had a
wonderful time. - Howard Bramhall
America is the "Greatest Generation" those males that put the need of
their country ahead of theirs. It is the men and women that go to war
and the "Rosie the Riveter" that kept the industrial machine back home
working to keep the troops rolling.
America is the men and women that answered the call in Vietnam and the
men and women that also answered the call to protest the war they
thought unjustified and made the scrifice to exercise their rights of
protest - including those that included flag bruning in their protest
which was upheld by the highest court in America as valid politcal
protest . They are both pariots in their own right. Only in America can
patriotism be defined many different ways and only in America will all
these definitions be valid!
The protected right to protest is uniquely American as is the rules put
in writting called the US Constitution.
America is politicians slingling insutls and mud at one another with
wreckless abandon one day and standing in lock step mass on the steps of
the Capital two days later singing "God Bless America." America is
different things to different people. I am sure many foreigners don't
underestand it. But in some respects America is unique in a lot of
respects. It is open, it guarantees the rights of it's citizens and
unlike few other countries it welcomes diveristy, debate, infighting,
slingling mud, etc. - until someone outside has a stupid moment and
thinks that that is a weakness. That is the greatest strength of America.
Truman
PS: to make this endurance related so Steph doesn't grind me with her 6
inch heel on her riding boot - it took a lot of endurance to delete all
this dribble about the UAE insulting us because the had our flag
reversed. If someone didn't like the way the flag was oriented - the put
the stupid cap on backwards and it was "correct.'" Now can we move on.
Howard Bramhall wrote:
> Antonio, I have no idea. That was kind of the point I was trying to
> make.
--
"It is necessary to
be noble, and yet take humility as a basis.
It is necessary to be
exalted, and yet take modesty as a foundation."
