Absolutely OUTSTANDING essay/post Noumenon!!!
It's been expanded slightly and the language modified for verbal delivery and also to try and reach a wider audience. I have no idea where this is going to lead. I suspect that I'll wind up on a few more government lists, but what the hey - whats a few more at this stage of the game?
I've gotten some encouragment to step forward as a leader. I don't know that I'm that much of a leader. and that begs the question: a leader of what? I've run my own business, hired and fired in other corporate venues, and I take responsibility for my actions.
In any case, what I've written here and what I plan to deliver is only the result of my modest grasp of history and human nature. I have degrees in neither, only my experience and a will to comprehend as much as I can. Does that make me a leader? I don't know.
When I think of the sacrifices that the brave and determined men and women made on that April 19th day in 1775, I feel very small. These people were better than I'll ever be. Well, you never know who you really are until the SHTF. I expect that we're going to find out Real Soon Now.
I can hear that distant thunder. It's war. And it's coming. Here. Soon. I'll do what I can.