I would like to wish a happy birthday to America this day.

I am still very proud to be an American but I must say I am not very proud of what our government is trying to do to her. Indeed, what they HAVE DONE and ARE STILL doing to her.

I am reminded somewhat of what a once-great American company, one where I worked for over twenty years, went through.

Started in the 1920’s in Illinois Motorola became a very good company under its early leadership. It then became an even better company under its second generation of leadership starting in the 1950’s and peaking into the 1980’s when I had the good fortune to be hired there. As the company passed into its third generation of leadership it began to slowly, then more swiftly, fall apart. One can just look at what has happened to Motorola and one can logically assume that can happen to just about any company…and maybe just about any country. Even our own.

The Founding Fathers (I capitalize that with decided purpose) would obviously represent our initial leadership with George Washington at the helm. The second generation yielded Abraham Lincoln of course- no more needed to be said. The third generation began I think with Wilson and while it produced the Greatest Generation they were simply plain folk, as those of them still left would likely tell you. But the leadership passed from Wilson and later on through Roosevelt and Johnson and Carter and has perhaps reached its nadir Under Obama. True there was also Coolidge and Kennedy and Reagan in that stretch as well but all that they might do to slow the slide has been easily overcome by the counter efforts to hasten it. Intentions do not matter; consequences and results do.

I believe that people are beginning to just start to wake up about all that is happening and they are realizing that it is not a good situation we find ourselves in. In fact, it is a very dire situation and one that may not be able to be reversed before much longer.

So I would like to give my country the most special gift that I can.

Sure, I could give money to causes and organizations- and I do- but that is hardly enough. No, what is needed is education so that people can understand what is happening and what the impact all of that might likely be.

I begin with myself and my children- that was long-ago started. I continue with a site like I have here but it is time to go beyond and reach out. Until now this has simply been my own test site and lab and it needs to spin out to much, much more.

I believe that above all else the effort needs to be focused on our young people as is always the case. To teach them all that they are not getting in our schools when it comes to the correct and accurate representation of history and also to instruct them as to how our system was meant to work and how it is now not doing so.

Only with such education at the younger ages might we finally be able to turn the tide.

But right now our government has gained control of our youth in so many ways. It will not be easy to wean them away but with all that I have left in life to give I plan to try.

Will you join me? For yourself and your children? For your country and all that she has been and can still again one day be?

Happy Birthday America and God please still bless our country and give me and others like me, the strength and determination to help promote the changes that simply must be made.

It might not, hopefully be too late.