Thoughts To Ponder

The economy is so bad,
So what can we really do?
It’s like waiting for the man
upstairs to drop the other shoe.

Ruth Wildes Schuler

--------------

First, I must put something in context. America is unique in the history of the world. In the history of the world, whenever there has been a war, the nation that is victorious has taken land from the nation that has been defeated – land has always been the basis of wealth on our planet.
Only one nation in history, and this during the last century, was willing to lay down hundreds of thousands of lives and take no land in its victory – no land from Germany, no land from Japan, America. America is unique in the history of the word for its willingness to sacrifice so many lives of its precious sons and daughters for liberty, not solely for itself but also for its friends.

Shimon Peres, Israel’s former Prime Minister and President to Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts Governor
and 2008 Presidential Candidate


The only land that America took after World War II was what was needed to bury our dead.

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell


TRADITION

Where once the oriental warrior
exposed the back of his neck
to the sword as a gesture of peace;
he now merely bows from the waist.

Ruth Wildes Schuler