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Only Americans can hurt America. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Columbia University, 31 May 1954

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Midweek timeout.  Take a breath.  You can make it if you try.  It has been a busy week so far and I feel like I have spent so much time with the photos that I have neglected the writing aspect of blogging.

What is blogging?  Perhaps it is thinking out loud.   Or maybe it is a rap session.  Remember those?  We used to have them all the time when we were in college.   Somebody would stop by and then somebody else who hoped to be with that somebody would walk by the room.

And then that somebody would do a U-turn and flop down on the beanbag chair.  And then somebody else who wanted to “protect”  one of those already in the room would suddenly appear.   Somebody would tell a joke and then the noise level would rise and the guys or girls in the neighboring room would have to investigate.

Is blogging like that?  In it’s better moments perhaps.  It COULD BE like that if a lot of old foggies like myself decided we wanted it to be like that.

The physical element would be missing.  But some of us wouldn’t regret that at all.   None of the guys who are still holding on to their midlife crises would be interested.

But the rest of us would find some comfort in pretending we were in that smelly room again and just sharing our thoughts and emotions with others who were in the same boat.

And trying to navigate without a paddle.

Hey dude!   Did you hear what Robin had to say?   She is so far out.  She knows how to put things in perspective.   She helps me deal with things i dream about when I’m lonely.   I can’t say enough about her.  Now she has the word when it comes to falling in love.

What a babe.

Let’s order a pizza.  Anybody got any money?

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