Focus!

[HARDCORE]

We have always been a nation of focus - some good, some bad! But without focus, there is no direction. And without direction, one usually finds himself bumping into things that he could genuinely do without!

Our Founders, magnificent men most, were not gifted with a cake walk, far from it in fact! Most, if not all, had a price put upon their heads by the despots of that period. And our original revolution was not as unanimously applauded as history would have us believe!

Any man, any real man, is not without his detractors, nor his own personal mistakes for that matter! And there will always be those who, for one reason or another, go out of their way to stir up tumult or opposition, even against the righteous, if such a rare animal truly exists?

Generally, and regrettably so, far too many people these days are political and financial sell-outs - for sale to whatever faction is the most profitable for them to join. Their views, like those of far too many career politicians and men of business these days, are for sale to the highest bidder. And their ethics and the integrity of these few users are about as bogus and fluid as an overly generous dose of laxative, and usually with the same end result, I might add!

Getting back to our Founding Fathers - Contrary to opinion, not all of these “Experimenters In A New and Democratic Way Of Life” were the sharpest or most honest tacks in the box! They, like the rest of us, were but students of democracy. They put but one foot before the other, as do we all, and stumbled more than once along their way to perceived perfection. The key, however, is that they arose anew and carried on from there. “And this, after all, is what constitutes a man and a true patriot!”

We all make mistakes, some of them even grievous! It is, however, when we pull ourselves to our feet, dust ourselves off, wipe away the blood and the tears, and then try again, that the true meaning of our greatness can be defined!

VERITAS (Truth)