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I don't feel it fair to blame someone I've never met who lives thousands of miles away for either my lot in life or for global problems.
Leaders lead, followers follow, soldiers take orders, farmers plant, and mothers rock babies all over the world.
I lost a fiancee in Viet Nam, a delightful sweet niece to Lukemia when she was 6 yrs old. I have a wonderful friend who was in an accident and is paralized from the sternum down. Bad, unfair things happen to good people all over the world...but life goes on.
We all breathe the same air, gain warmth from the same sun and can gaze at the same stars on a cloudless night. Perhaps our differences make us unique and we've more in common than some would like to admit.
Perhaps where we come from isn't as important as where we choose to go...Not geographically but mentally and emotionally.
I was born an American. I didn't make this choice, I merely accept it and I am proud of much of what America represents, but like all countries, we remain a work in progress. I also accept there are those who will choose to blame and hate me and my country. I choose not to blame or hate them. To each their own.
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