[Dubya]

Pearls Of Wisdom

Look back to where you have been...
For a clue to where you are going. Worry enough to anticipate trouble...
But not so much as to bring it about. Melt the icy fingers of fear...
With the sunshine of hope. Step by gentle step...
You can overcome the greatest sorrow. The sweetest grapes...
Are picked from the vineyard of friendship. Gossip is like a river...
It can always be traced back to its source. An insecure person...
Will soak up flattery like a sponge. Save the life of a helpless animal...
And you have done the work of God. A mirror is only as good...
As the reflection in it. Find something you truly believe in...
And everything else will have meaning as well. May God Bless You

[Dubya]

Freedom Is Not Free

I watched the flag pass by one day. It fluttered in the breeze.

A young Marine saluted it, and then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform So young, so tall, so proud, He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him Had fallen through the years.

How many died on foreign soil?

How many mothers' tears?

How many pilots' planes shot down?

How many died at sea?

How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?

No, freedom isn't free.