An email to a daughter:
It came! One 19" flat screen monitor!
And the fellow that delivered it, black as the "ace of spades", is as vigorous anti-Bush and his disgusting cronies as am I!!! That is he hates or detests, the more vehement of the two, Bush like I do.
The horrors perpetrated by the USA make the idea of my being a "surgical risk" have merit! But I must remember "Lil Guy" and will stick around! If the stress of the accident of fourteen months ago didn't "do me in" what could? I don't ignore you were a great help to my survival.
As he, the deliveryman, talked about God & prayer remedying things, first getting that sleazy crowd in DC out then making Congress "Blue" in '06, he talks like a "born again". So at least some Christians are not amoral and do have a decent moral code! There is a remnant compassion within a minority of Christians! I'm sure that is as true for Muslims to a majority excluding those who slaughter and torture innocents as does the USA!! And the French and France exemplify that virtue of compassion along with all the EU.
A key to the matter is he is a "regular working man" and not wealthy - apparently - and agrees these United States are not what they used to be. Now we are a curse to all of our history. He is as horrified and astounded as I am! He asks: "why?, how?" which is as bafling to me. I tend to blame it on wealth and that "Power corrupts and Absolute Power corrupts Absolutely"! That is "Absolute Power" as one man believes he is. Note "is" and the God equivalency!
He also led me to believe he spent his time in the US military when there was something for which fighting and its sacrifices had worth and did not totally dishonor the citizens of the USA!
Now to "drown my sorows" in unpacking my award to a lifelong of intense working and for demonstrated loyalty to what had been but is no longer!
Oh! Do I have the joy of studying instruction manuals in front of me. Last night at 2AM I couldn't resist and got out of bed to read the camera instruction manual and did the setup routine until 5AM! Then I slept until 11AM, satiated for the moment!
Dad
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