The Number One Reason You Should Vote in November

I just got through mailing a care package to my son who is serving overseas in the U.S. Navy.  I am so very proud of him and the sacrifice he is making for our country.  He, along with thousands of men and women sacrifice daily to see that our freedoms remain intact.  For my son, he is on a battleship in a dangerous part of the world.  He and his wife have an 18 month old son and are expecting a baby girl any day now.  There is a high probability that he will not be there for the birth of his daughter.  He has already been away for months.  This is sacrifice.  It is also a sacrifice for his little family.  But he is only one of thousands going through the same thing for our country.

It makes me sad to see our country so torn apart when so many servicemen and women are giving so much to keep our freedoms intact.  Civility seems to have disappeared by the wayside.  We cannot even seem to have a conversation anymore.  The left blames Trump.  The right blames the radical left. Blacks blame whites.  Whites blame blacks. In the middle of all of the blaming and shaming, our country is falling apart.  And that is very sad because we are ALL Americans.

The truth is:  We are ALL to blame.  We act like children on a playground...all the way from President Trump down to the everyday citizen.  What we seem to fail to realize is that in the middle of all that is wrong with our country there is a lot that is right.  But we all hold on so tightly to what we believe that we block our reasoning and our view.  Those on the left point fingers at Trump's tweets but fail to recognize any good he has done.  The right points fingers as well, failing to recognize any good that the other side has to offer.  We have become so closed minded that we automatically think of a rebuttal or a comeback rather than actually consider another point of view.


Growth will never occur in a society that is closed-minded and divided.  Still, our servicemen and women fight for us.  Perhaps it is time for us to appreciate that...truly appreciate it.

Vote in November.  That is one of our most basic rights.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Photo by Cheryl Williams