Friends,
I ran across the below URL YouTube video quite by accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km7pvRp0x9Q
It is a recitation of the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, sponsored by the NFL. It is moving, well beyond my means to describe; especially the last minute that echoes how I have long held is how I want to define myself, and, if I am remembered at all by any: I am an American!
However I may in truth be somewhat a scoundrel and a pain in the rear to some, and a blowhard to others, what I am, and am damned proud to be one . . . I am an American!
Please take the time to view the video. Then, never, ever forget for a moment YOUR HERITAGE: It is not to roll over and go with the flow. Rather, it is, whenever you think it necessary and proper, to stand up against the flow. Regardless when or how we got here, that is our heritage, it is what an American is; occasionally a scoundrel, sometimes a pain in the rear, and, from time to time, a blowhard.
Fifty-four extraordinarily brave, and perhaps more than a little foolish (“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Benjamin Franklin at the signing), strode to the desk that hot Philadelphia day on July 4, 1776, to add their signatures to the treasonous document against Great Britain that ended with a pledge “to each other [their] lives, [their] fortunes, and [their] sacred honor.”
With all the sham that seems to dominate, I often reflect whether today we have among us such souls. While it is difficult sometimes to hold onto the perception, I truly believe we do.
And now . . . click on the link above.
— Ed Tubbs
Palm Springs, CA
