September 9, 2004

  • I’m Struggling

    For some reason, the last few days, every time I turn on the radio, some news reporter is telling me that the unemployment rate is at its highest, and that the economy is struggling.

    Well, I don’t know who exactly they ask about all this “struggling,” but it sure wasn’t me. They could have asked me about my “struggling” 9 years ago.

    In fact, this year, I found the job of my dreams. And my husband just got another job, which I grant doesn’t pay much, but allows him to use some of his skills while allowing him to study for his upcoming exam. We bought a brand new house in a superb location. And I am loving it!

    If this is struggling, bring it on, baby!

    “When you go home,
    Tell them for us, and say,
    For your tomorrow
    We gave our today.”

    Thank you to the many men and women — and one of my preceptors who has been called into action this week — who spend their days and nights protecting my family’s freedom to live our lives the way we believe it should be lived. Although it may seem that there are many who publicly scorn you for your sacrifice (ex. Michael Moore and all those sad people), my family never looked at anyone in the U.S. military with scorn, even when we were in different countries.

    I find it foreign that American-born citizens have been taught to believe that everyone in other countries hates the United States. If that were the case, then I wonder why my relatives haven’t gone back to their respective countries. Or why my friends from Poland, Cuba, India, Bulgaria, Japan, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, the former U.S.S.R., and even France (I could go on and on), don’t feel the need to return to their countries.

    My voice may not be very loud, but I felt it had to be said.

    The only people I see hating the U.S. are people who have something to gain by saying that the country is in ruin, and that they can make it better.

    Politicians don’t make a country better.

    Its people do.