No Flags, Just Love

I ain't puttin' up no dayum flag!

But you know, I truly love this country. I am so proud to stand beside my neighbors and with my community in trying to make this a better place to live.

It feels so much better to be with people than against them, you know. The eight years of the Bush Doctrine, I'm sorry, was pretty atrocious for me. The policies, the war the Supreme Court stealing the election and the sides we all took proclaiming that each party was right.

All of these things are my opinion you know... but I'm not a hard line person. There are truths indivisible, that I may not even have a grasp on. And I would love to be at least in proximity to the truth, and strive for even more completeness on that end.

But here we sit, or stand...or lay, ride in a bus, whatever, one week after we have elected Barack Obama to be President of our Country.

I'm not crowing it from the rooftops. I'm just acknowledging that we ALL did this. Even those who voted and campaigned for John McCain. We ALL had a part in electing Obama President.

This goes to today though and to those who serve and served. You, Veterans are citizens just like us. You...we come from the same stock, proud of this land and owners of it's freedom. You folks have participated in ways though, that many people have never dreamed. Bullets flying past your head...my best friend was a victim of a drive-by shooting and had the bullets whizzing past his head...and his good friend at the time was killed,,,but they didn't VOLUNTEER for that!

All I'm saying in this quick little love note to you veterans is thank you. I may be a liberal pacifistic vegetarian, (at least at one time I was), but What you have done and our ancestors in the name of country have affected us all and left in inspiration to fight, for whatever we believe in.

Thanks