Potus elect speech on victory

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Nice story Gephardt

Close Encouters of the Ghost Kind

In preparing for this years “close encounters of the ghost kind”. I came across a story about a train school bus wreck. Most of the tales recount a school bus full of small children were killed somewhere in Texas. The story goes on how these ghosts actually help passers by in times of need. The story in fact comes from Utah and it was a bus of high school students on their way to school on a wintery morning in 1938. My wife and I did a little research and not only found the wreck site, but a memorial that speaks of it in the South Jordan cemetery. We found the graves of three Young women that perished that day. Many of the students graves can be found in multiple cemetery’s in the south west part of the Salt Lake valley. 

Rela Marie Beckstead, 15 years old, Helen Lloyd, 17 years old, and Lois Johnson 17 years old, all died on December 1 1938. Three young women that have for the most part been forgotten in time and history. You have to research to know their story. But their story is one that many have carried on in tales of ghosts and lore. Not scary ghosts but kind helping ghosts. You see not all ghost stories are scary. Here is a brief glimpse in to their tragic deaths.

December 1, 1938 Dawned as a snowy, Foggy, eerily quiet day. While a school bus headed through the dense winter storm towards Jordan high school, a loaded Denver and Rio grande freight train rolled north towards Salt lake city. At 8:43, near the railroad crossing at 10200 so and 400 west, the driver stopped the bus. He opened the door to look beyond the thick fog, but he did not see or hear the 80 + car “Flying Ute” train approaching at over 50 miles per hour. he sat back in his seat and pushed the gas pedal down, the buses rubber tire strained up the gentle grade and pulled slowly forward across the tracks. The Engineer and train crew could barely make out the bus ahead of them. the crew frantically applied the brakes, but the collision was inevitable. The wreckage of mangled bus left 23 students and the driver dead. 15 students survived the accident and most faced a lifetime of serious physical injuries and emotional scars. 

On Nov. 30, 1938, Wanda Sheels Naylor had planned to leave Jordan High School and spend the night at a friend's home. Wanda, now silver-haired and with delicate hands that trembled gently in the cool wind, said Monday that she and her friend would have ridden the bus back to school the next morning. It was something the teenage girls had done many times before, but when Wanda mother called, they gave up on the sleepover.

"My little sister got sick and my mother needed me at home," she recalled.

The last minute change-of-plans saved Wanda’s life.

The next morning, Dec. 1, the bus Wanda would have taken from her friend's home rolled to a stop at a railroad crossing at 10200 South and 400 West in South Jordan during the first snowstorm of the year. The bus driver opened his doors to look for a train but saw nothing in the thick fog. The driver pulled onto the tracks at 8:34 a.m.

At the same moment, an 80-plus car "Flying Ute" train emerged from the storm traveling more than 50 miles per hour. The engineers slammed on the brakes, but it was too late — the train plowed into the bus.

She waited at the old Jordan High School for her friend to arrive.

"They never came," Wanda recalled. "And I was inside because it was snowy. We went into the school and went to our first class, and the teacher was crying. Ms. Hawkins was her name. Then the bell rang very loud two or three times. They wanted all students in the auditorium, and that's when we were told of the tragedy."

The collision killed 23 students and the bus driver. Newspaper images of the accident show mangled metal twisted beyond recognition around the front of the freight train, which was operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.

Wanda knew everyone on the doomed bus.

The following poem was written by Naomi Lewis at the age of seventeen. Oddly enough it was penned the night before she died in the bus/train wreck.

Earth’s Angels.

 I like to think that the wind

Is Angles in the trees,

Stanley noble Angels

that no one ever sees.

When the world is peaceful

and people are living right,

They rustle the branches gently

throughout the entire night.

But when the world is wicked

Then sorrow bursts from the trees,

and it sounds like the wailing,

woeful hum

of hostile atrocious bees.

Buy in my imagining

It’s angels sorrowing in the tree.

At night they call a council

Of angels on the earth,

Each angel chooses a mortal

to guide to his preordained worth.

So I like to think that wind

Is angels in the trees

Stanley noble angels

That no-one ever, ever sees.

No one can tell you what their thoughts were that fateful morning. No one remembers what they were wearing, or what they had for breakfast that day. But if you go to the South Jordan Cemetery in Utah You can visit their graves, feel the peace, and if your lucky enough maybe they can help you. 

As my wife and I were leaving he cemetery, a gentle breeze picked up. It rustled the autumn leaves, and for a moment it felt as if they were there. Saying thank you for remembering, for coming. Walking to the car I said in my mind, thank you Naomi, Rela, Lois and Helen for allowing us to learn this bit of history and feel the comfort of the rustling branches.

The day after the day

Remembering…

September 12, 2016

Not long a go, well I guess that is relative. Fifteen years ago this morning, I woke with visions in my mind of a horrible , terrible act. Attacks here on American soil. The only problem was that it was not just a dream or vision. It had actually happened. I had seen the replays of planes crashing into the the trade center towers, the pentagon and also a field in central Pennsylvania. I don't know how many times I had viewed them, dozens perhaps hundreds, but the reply in my mind was constant. As a firefighter I had so many emotions and feelings coursing through me. I had a need to do something more than my day to day routine. Thanks to modern technology I, along with millions of other Americans, had been a front row witness to a cowardly attack, carried out by a group that had a great hate for what America stands for. Freedom, Liberty, Prosperity and opportunity. I was privileged to work with a group of men and women that became what we called the fallen fund. We would have a 30 plus day journey around our nation raising funds for the fallen families. But this story is not about that experience, It is about what we saw and felt as we traveled, how we were treated and in general how the people of this nation treated one another.  

It was an honor to have complete strangers, wave, walk up and give hugs, honk their horns and wave old glory in the breeze. Countless time we witnessed Flags painted on barns, flying from cars, and being held with great esteem, love, affection, and respect. Kindness melted away anger and bitterness. Negativity and frustration were changed to hope, and a feeling of common bond. The founding Fathers felt this same bond, for a time we knew what it felt like to be a true patriot. To esteem one another as American equals, regardless of color, religion, creed, or financial stature in the community. We embraced the principles of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We believed in us. Unfortunately, the unity and bonds we felt faded with time. Much like a wound, when its fresh causes us to take care of the most important things to help it heal properly. As it heals we forget the pain and being to neglect it or stop thinking about it. Some things should be forgotten, but not the goodness, not the kindness, and definitely not the hope and values that America should have. We had a unique opportunity to strengthen and make America better and a beacon of light to the world. Instead we have reverted to anger, bitterness. We embrace the remembrance of decades even centuries old injustices and wrongs. We worry more about what over paid athletes, actors, and politicians say than what we know to be true. Our values and principles  have become clouded with smoke and mirrors and unfortunately darkness.

Its a funny thing about darkness and light. The other day I walked down the stairs in my house. As I reached the bottom step it was dark. I thought there was one more step to descend. I was wrong. As my foot hit the landing I stumbled and fell. Picking myself off of the floor and realizing I wasn't hurt became embarrassed and was grateful that no one witness my fall. I immediately turned on the light, which I should have done in the first place. As I have thought of this experience, I thought of our nation. I realized that much of the problems that we have as Americans and that we face as a Nation come from the perspective that we view things. Do we look at things from the perspective of darkness. Missing important obstacle and having a gloomy look or disposition of life. Or do we look at it from a perspective of light. Seeing pitfalls and solutions having a clear vision and positive outcomes. Remember light chases darkness away, and enhances vision, while darkness hides good and makes simple things more difficult.

So back to the beginning. Fifteen years ago today, I had a resolution in my heart and mind to do good. I remember that, and I hope I can do my part today to remember to do good, to lift, and to approach. things from the light and not darkness.

May God bless each of us as we move into the future, and My God bless America

Bravehaven,

Please remember. #343

Remember the Fallen.... #343

Great words By Israel Prime Minister about the recent violence.

Oh How I wish our country had a Noble leader that is not afraid to lead, or call evil, evil.

UTA no more of my money please!

This was an article fro the Salt lake tribune.

The Utah Transit Authority, now in the midst of a campaign to improve transparency and build public trust, is moving its board committee meetings behind closed doors.

UTA recently announced reforms intended to bolster public confidence, including inviting more public comment and making all final decisions in open meetings of the full board. The announcement contained no mention of plans to close committee meetings, where UTA officials generally have worked through issues to the point that final approval by the full board usually occurs without debate.

The Salt Lake Tribune discovered the policy shift Tuesday when it asked the agency why it had not sent or posted agendas for committee meetings previously scheduled for Wednesday. UTA spokesman Remi Barron emailed the explanation that because of recent reforms to move any final decisions from committees to the full board, "the previous committee meetings will now become informal work sessions and are not required to be open meetings.

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• Budweiser rep"When you want to make the public think that you are pulling a fast one, UTA knows how to hit a home run," complained George Chapman, a board member of the UTRU, who often attends UTA committee meetings.

He also had called UTA, wondering why it had not posted agendas for Wednesday's committee meetings. He said UTA officials never returned his calls, and he learned of the policy change from The Tribune. 

Christopher Stout, president of UTRU, said the transit agency's committee meetings "should remain open to the public" because they are necessary for his group and others "to understand what the agency is planning."

He commended reforms to meetings of the full board. But, he said, "Closing other meetings doesn't allow for a true transparent process. UTRU is greatly disappointed that UTA has chosen to exclude the public from planning meetings."

Before 2010, UTA conducted its committee meetings behind closed doors, contending then that Utah's open-meetings law did not require them to be open if a quorum of the full board was not present. 

As The Salt Lake Tribune was contesting that reading of the law in 2010, UTA's then-new Board Chairman Greg Hughes — now speaker of the Utah House — decided to open them, although UTA asserted then that it was doing so voluntarily, not because it was required by law.

"It's going to create greater public confidence," Hughes said at the time. Since then, UTA has publicly posted agendas and minutes of the meetings, and allowed the public to attend. 

Hughes, who is no longer on the board, declined to comment Tuesday.

Hunt, an expert in open-meetings law, said UTA is incorrect in its assertion that the committees are no longer public meetings because no final votes will be taken there.

"Advisory bodies are subject to the Open Meetings Act. It's right in the definition of what constitutes a public body," he said. UTA has had four committees: finance and operations, planning and development, stakeholder (to work with groups affected by UTA) and an executive committee.

If a committee "has been delegated authority to make recommendations, then it is a public body under the Public Meetings Act," Hunt said.

"The rationale is fairly straightforward," he added. "The public deserves to hear the full discussion and debate on issues of public import and not just the vote on those issues once they reach the full board." 

The attorney has handled many cases in this area.

"We've dealt with this in a lot of contexts before: school boards, city councils. And the attorney general's office, in fact, in previous administrations … took the same view, that advisory bodies are subject to the Open Meetings Act. So I hope they [UTA Board members] reconsider

Oh Canada,

Our neighbors to the north are in an epic battle against fire. Watch this harrowing security footage of a house that was lost to the fire. Fortunately now one was home. The family evacuated just a short time before the fire reached their house.

Oh Say can you see?

Is Apple the new IBM?

Fewer people are flocking to apple these days. I wonder if Apple has lost its edge, or out of vision losing it? Have they lost sight on what made them great?

When apple came in to prominence it was because of cutting edge professional programs, such as Final Cut, Aperture and such. Now days these robust programs are obsolete and becoming extinct. Final Cut used to compete with Avid. In fact it nearly put the editing giant into annals of history. Editors flocked to the program and loved the workability and tools it brought in a package that was affordable. Another innovative program was aperture, no longer available. It was a venture into professional photography. When apple introduced Final Cut pro, most editors including myself flocked to it. Thinking it would continue to lead and expand its lead on the competition. Oh how I wish that were true. It still is a good program but instead of setting itself apart from other editing software, it dumbed down the system and made it more like them. A program like adobe premiere suddenly became a viable alternative.
Come on apple you are better than that..... or at least you used to be..

BHM

Wow great footage

Switzerland prepares to guard borders......Wake up USA

Switzerland has announced it is considering stationing a tank battalion at its southern border with Italy, after news that Austria is ready to completely shut down the Brenner Pass between Italy and Austria.

In a matter of just hours, Europe’s migrant crisis has escalated following the unexpected announcement Wednesday night by Austria’s Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil that his country is prepared to close its border if Italy does not get its migrant problem under control.

After Italy sharply criticized the Austrian plan, Switzerland has declared it is considering posting tanks to secure its own border with Italy. “We expect a significant increase in the number of refugees this summer. If Austria now closes off the Brenner Pass, Switzerland will become the only gateway to Northern Europe. Before that, we have to protect ourselves,” said Norman Gobbi, the security director of the Swiss Canton of Ticino.

The region has some 2,000 soldiers of the Swiss Tank Battalion at the ready, and they have been asked to postpone vacations in order to be available as needs may arise. As other migrant routes become more restricted or close altogether, Italy is becoming increasingly the path of choice for migrants coming both from the south and from the east. Heading north through Italy, if Austria no longer becomes an option, “many will then travel to Switzerland,” Gobbi said.

According to Gobbi, in the past week 169 refugees have crossed the border between Italy and Switzerland illegally. “The refugees mainly take routes outside of the official border crossings. We must prepare ourselves for a possible migrant onslaught,” said the security director.

During the first part of this year Italy has taken in 50 percent more refugees than during the same period in 2015, and the Italian government is forecasting the total number of migrants this year to be double that of last year. “This will not be without consequences for Switzerland,” said Gobbi.

“We have to go on the offensive,” said Austria’s Defense Minister Wednesday night, referring to tightened border controls.

By all accounts, Switzerland agrees.

Death and taxes...should be death to taxes I say

The history of taxation in American has a long and infamous history. Since the imposition of the very first tax — The Navigation Tax of 1651 — taxes have been wildly unpopular in America. When the Constitution was written and ratified, the only taxes allowed were to pay the debt and provide for the common defense and general welfare. At times, taxation was implemented during wars to fund the government and the war effort, with no intention of becoming permanent. However, since 1913, the United States of America has adhered to a communist plank second only to the abolition of all private property: a progressive or graduated income tax. What purpose does an income tax serve? In our four-part series on taxes, we’ll explore its history in America and how a tax once promised to never climb above seven percent has, at times, ballooned to 77 percent at the hands of an out-of-control government. Taxes Part I: How Income Tax Began When the Constitution was written and ratified, the only taxes allowed by America’s founding document were to pay the debt and provide for the common defense and general welfare. “Welfare” meant the general well-being of the people, not government handouts to people who didn’t work for a living. During the War of 1812, Congress imposed America’s first sales tax. But even then, just on gold, silverware and jewelry. Amazingly, in 1817, several years after the war of 1812 had been won, Congress ended all internal taxation on Americans, including sales tax, relying solely on tariffs on imported goods to fund the government. It wasn’t until the Civil War of 1862, in order to pay for the increasingly high cost of the war that the United States Congress adopted America’s first income tax — three percent for wage earners between $600 and $10,000, and higher for those making over $10,000. Sales and excise taxes were imposed, as well as the nation’s first inheritance tax. The Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Office was created and granted the power to levy and collect taxes, a power the Constitution had given solely to the United States Congress. In 1872, with the Civil War long over, Congress eliminated the income tax. Then came the era of progressivism.

After progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1912, the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution made the income tax permanent in 1913. The amendment gave Congress the legal authority to tax income — of both individuals and corporations. Advocates promised the highest tax rate would never climb above seven percent, but just two years later, it was already at 15 percent. With the onslaught of World War I, the federal government made the case that tax rates must be raised to finance the war effort. In 1916, the top rate leapt from 15 to 67 percent, and the next year to 77 percent. Two constitutional presidents — Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge — fought and succeeded in cutting spending by 50 percent and lowering income tax rates. By 1925, the tax rate had been slashed from 77 percent to 25 percent. Throughout our nation’s history, the wealthy have been punished with egregious taxes, but nothing could compare to the unbelievable burden placed on the most successful Americans in 1944, when the federal government raised the top tax rate to 94 percent of every dollar earned over $200,000. It’s difficult to believe that any American would find it right and moral for a government to confiscate all but six to 10 percent of a person’s income. The highest rate fell from 70 to 50 percent in 1981 and then to 28 percent in 1986. It should be noticed that the second plank of the Communist Manifesto, right after the abolition of all private property, is a progressive or graduated income tax. The United States of America has adhered to that communist plank since 1913. The nation that first instituted communism — Russia — abandoned the progressive or graduated income tax in 1998 for a flat tax of 13 percent, growing the country’s revenue by 28 percent.

 Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/04/11/taxes-part-i-how-income-tax-began/?utm_source=glennbeck&utm_medium=contentcopy_link

Can I be your Barney Fife. way to go Sherriff.

A Utah sheriff has put out the word that he will not allow his county to be overrun by the unconstitutional Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service, and has gone so far as to warn the BLM that he will “deputize everyone and arrest all federal agents” should they enter his county in a similar manner to that of those in Nevada and Oregon.

Sheriff Marty Gleave has been serving the county he is in as sheriff for nearly 25 years. According to Gleave, all he has seen is that things “get progressively worse and worse and worse with the so-called land police.”

Gleave serves Piute County, which is the second smallest county by population in Utah. However, following the protests in Oregon, the arrests of many protesters at Bundy Ranch, including Cliven Bundy and the murder of LaVoy Finicum, Gleave addressed the Rural Caucus of the Utah State legislature on February 12, 2016.

At the center of a conflict in dispute between Sheriff Gleave and the US Forest Service is Gleave’s uncle Stanton Gleave, a longtime rancher in the county.

“You know, we’ve got FBI, DEA, ATF and ICE,” Sheriff Gleave said. “We’ve always been able to work with them people because they would only come and do major felony cases and different things like that. So, they were always out of the way until we needed them.”

However, he then singled out the BLM for what they have been involved in.

“We’ve got a Bureau of Land Management police and Forest Service police who are out doing the same exact jobs that my deputies can do and every other deputy sheriff and sheriff can do,” Gleave added.

Sheriff Gleave went on to elaborate about some of those things that could be handled by the sheriffs and their deputies. Even though I disagree that those things should not be handled by any sheriff, police or federal agent, I’ll leave that aside not to distract from his point.

Gleave referred to the feds, particularly the Forest Service and BLM, as “mismanagement” of their pretended authority. Take a listen to some of the many examples that Sheriff Gleave presents that the feds have caused problems for the wildlife and for the people, then failed to follow up on.

The Utah Sheriff also made a point in the video that men can abuse their authority and used himself as an example to demonstrate that if he wanted to abuse the authority entrusted to him by the people, he could have people in jail every day. However, he knows that would be wrong and lawless.

Gleave said that he was not a fan of the militia showing up in his county because he had a militia, the people. The sheriff even pointed them out. Good for him, and good for them!

“We’re not taking no more cuts on the Mountain. I’ll deputize every man, woman and child in the county to stop what’s going on,” Sheriff Gleave concluded.

Friends, this is what is needed, constitutional sheriffs. Furthermore, presidential candidates don’t just need to be held to the status quo. They need to be asked if they will seek the dismantling of the unconstitutional agencies like the BLM, the Forest Service, the ATF, the DEA, the Department of Education and Homeland Security. The heads of these organizations don’t answer to the people. They are appointed bureaucrats who infringe on the rights of the people and violate the US Constitution.

Until we are ready to eliminate and decentralize the Beast, we don’t need to complain about it. The Beast has shed its chains and has showed us its true form. The People must either restrain it, which is unlikely, or kill it. There is no other solution.

Roosey had it right

Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an American in 1907.

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes her in good faith becomes and American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but American… There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else isn't an American at all.  

We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people”

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Help America remember what its all about, We the people! Help us to raise awareness that our constitution is under attack. That our elected representatives are supposed to be just that, representative of We the People! That each of us has the right and responsibility to Preserve, Protect and Defend the principles found in this wonderful document.


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Crossroads, Constitutions, and God

My Fellow Countrymen of the United States of America. What have we become?

I remember 15 short years ago we were rocked by attacks on our country by radicals, extremists and those who hate our country and our way of life. After those attacks we were for a short while united in our cause and in our resolve. As time passed we became a divided people. a cynical people, a people that lost its focus and faith. We passed a crossroad and from what I can see we took the wrong fork in the road. Today the world not just our country faces great evil. There are all together too many times we turn on the news and hear of genocide, bombings, threats and horrible acts of violence. We are again at a crossroads, I guess really we come to those all of the time. Each of us arrive at them at different moments in our lives. I have seen people make a choice at these cross roads entering that intersection with hope and faith only to have that hope and faith trampled, muddied, and changed as they continue on the path. I have witnessed others go down the the path they have chosen so blinded by ignorance, and narrow field of vision that by the time they realize they have made the wrong choice it is often too late. If you have fond that you are there if you think it is too late, if you have been beaten down and had your faith and trust all but destroyed, I ask you to pause, take stock of where and who you are. In reality it is never too late. You can reverse your direction. If you still have a glimpse of hope, you can kindle its fire.
Our Founding Fathers were wise, they had many crossroads. Many Americans believe that once we deafened the brattish all our troubles were over. They were not. Our fledgling country struggled not only in trying to make a place for us in the world, but we struggled mostly from with in. trying to decide how and what our nation would look like. We had a flawed articles of confederation, that did nothing to unify us. Honest men, brave men, men of principle and vision met and for months discussed, debated and deliberated to come up with what we know as the Constitution of the United Sates of America.

The Preamble of the Constitution says so much in so few words.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

This document was provided for us through blood and sweat and great risk. These men struggled to form something that had never existed before in the Governments of this earth. At one point when all seemed to be at risk, a wise Benjamin Franklin reminded them of higher power.

"The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other---our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of Government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances.

In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.-Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

I therefore beg leave to move-that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business"                   Quote from the constitutional convention attributed to Benjamin Franklin

As each of us approach our crossroads, may we also follow the council to involve and invoke that God will provide his guiding hand in the Preservation, Protection and Defense of our country and constitution.

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May we elect Good men and Women that will restore our trust in our Government. May we set aside the differences we have and work together to build on those things that are truly important. May we live our lives so that the great God of Heaven  can pour out his blessings upon us.

May God Bless us as we cross the roads that lay before us, and may He bless The United States of America