[Billie]

Have company and am sorry I can't be here very much today, but will try to get back again before the day's over.

jwfiv, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed reading your essay again - PLEASE write another one for us!

[dutchess]

All I can say is WOW. I don't remember this thread at all so am so glad for a "repeat". Beautiful words and beautiful presentation. Thank you!

[jwfiv]

Thank you, Miss Billie ... dutchess, Nan and Dolly.

I'd forgotten all about this one, too ... it was like reading someone else's words except for a few hints that they were mine.

All these many months later, they still ring true and my faith in that Idea is unshaken.

The Lord does bless America, land of the free, home of the brave.