FYI
trustworthyloyalhelpfulfriendlycourteouskindobedientcheerfulthriftybravecleanandreverent
still works
11. Don’t squat with yer spurs on.
(Maybe number one.)
As a youngester, I got this from the Lone Ranger (ya, I’m that old)
“I believe.....
That to have a friend, a man must be one.[19]
That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.
In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.
That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.
That ‘this government of the people, by the people, and for the people’ shall live always.
That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.
That sooner or later...somewhere...somehow...we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.
That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.
In my Creator, my country, my fellow man.”
Later I picked up this:
Tell the truth about what you see and do. There is an Army depending on you for correct information. You can lie all you please when you tell other folks about the Rangers, but never lie to another Ranger or to an officer.
There are several others, of course, but this one has stuck me like no other. My takeaway - Any organization or society that lies to itself is doomed...
YMMV
God I LOVE THIS!
I think that something we have lost in America is “how you play the game.”
It always amazes me how dismissive the state and federal government is about destroying entire pockets of cultures of the west through their various environmental regulations. They do an economic cost/benefit analysis and determine that the ranch or farm life is no longer penciling out so can be written off in favor of some fish or owl or other critter.
We are losing the fountainhead of important American values as a result.
ping a ling a ling!