From: Kenneth Landreth
Columbus
Sitting here on my front porch, thinking it was just a few days ago it was the Fourth of July.
I am proud that I served my country in the military for 21 years; that was an honor. I am honored also to be able to sit here in my chair and watch the birds eat their food in their feeder, and that woodpecker eating his food. He just keeps pecking and pecking away; you would think he has a headache. Then there is that squirrel that’s trying to climb that feeder pole that I had just put grease on. He climbs up a way then slips back down.
I am so lucky to be able to do what I want to do, go anywhere I would like to go, not have to have a pass to go into another state as in some other countries.
Yes, we Americans should all be proud of who we are, what we are, where we came from and what our forefathers who founded this United States of America worked so hard for, so that we have the freedom, the things in life that we have today.
Now, only if our men and women in government will fight for what’s right and what we want, just like those birds and that squirrel I saw doing, who never gave up for what they wanted, this United States of America will live forever and be loved by all. But we must have the effort to help.
(Yes, that squirrel finally made it to his goal.)
