A Special Reason
 

Our world has changed, and continues its change as each day goes by. It is very sad to know so many lives
are no longer, and it is so very easy to get wrapped up in that. Our attention however, needs to be mainly
focused on those who remain behind, to clean up, pick up, make sense and attempt to go on.

So many families have been cut in half, and don't know how or where to go. Not only family members are gone, but also they have a mountain of legal issues ahead and have no idea of what or how to do about it.

We have so many of our military ready to ship out, and they also will be leaving behind families who will be
vulnerable to whatever lies ahead.

We have so many losing their jobs, and many others afraid they may be next. Many who have lost their jobs
have not received any severance and of course they are also losing their health insurance.

 How bad is the big picture? Out here in California we even have people stealing American flags from their
neighbors. We have hate crimes on the rise. We have so many running scared and who have lost purpose and direction that they will become the targets of all sorts of scam artists.

Can we help? Do we care? The time has come, for us as Americans and as human beings, to enter the picture and GET INVOLVED with reality.

I am sure every one of you knows someone, directly or indirectly who is personally touched by something I've mentioned above.

Waving flags and praying are wonderful gestures, but they DON'T DO ANYTHING! Our country did not become what we are by waving flags and saying prayers. All those who gave their lives for our FREEDOM to wave flags and say prayers, out there on the battlefields past, were NOT waving flags and saying prayers - they were AIMING and SHOOTING and BLEEDING and DYING!

None of this is about BLAMING a terrorist - it should be about BLAMING ourselves, as WE allowed our country to LOSE focus on REALITY! To learn that our own system did not even run a background criminal check on people having access to our airplanes is SCARY! To hear the reports from so many people who have done studies at our airports through the years, and all the problems that were reported and NEVER fixed, is SCARY! To realize we had our FBI chasing people smoking and growing pot, while terrorists were entering our country and doing ALL sorts of activities is SCARY! To know our country did away with the military draft, closed bases and so many related things, SO THEY COULD spend more on stopping drug traffic and other moral issues, all the time KNOWING how so many in this world hate us, is SCARY!

What can and what WILL you do? To sit and watch and wait and hope and pray are not getting it, life is
ACTION! Are you involved with HELPING America?
 

©Written by: Ed Kassirer
September 28, 2001