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I feel as tho I am out of the loop and that this wonderful thread just brought me back into mix.

I am feeling so satisfied, so secure, so very full of the warm flow of positive emotions I so often discover here.

Rintense-I cannot thank you enough for this effort. You bring me close to our President and his activities and in doing so, inspire my hope for the future so important to all of us.

Mike-your remarks about the President's speech at Fort Hood elevated my respect for our President to a new high. Never thought that was possible. (It is almost the exact opposite of my lack of respect for bill klinton because just when I think my opinion of that slug can go no lower-he does something horrendous, says something heartbreaking or spirit crunching in is divisivness, and lower goes my loathing, easily.)

I loved your words because I understand them so deeply. Like a poet who touches you with words you have felt yet never expressed, so your words impacted me thusly. And I gather from reading the comments above-others had the same reaction. Ya have to work to not feel a kinship of the kindred spirits who frequent this thread. I pray, Mike, that I will be able to see a re-run of this speech and am wondering now if it will replace, in my heart, the speech he made at the National Cathedral service in DC post 9/11. Certainly, his words, and your impression, made this heart sing.

I trust our President. Like many of you, I wish I could tell him this...I wish I could hold his hand and somehow pass on to him, in one split second, what his leadership had meant to this family on a personal level.

And Mike-I will be on bended knee tonight, probably weeping, in gratitude and complete fullness of love to our Father we share, for the blessing our nation has received in having President Bush as our leader. Isn't God's timing perfect? He knew just who we needed at this moment in time.

Ohio-congrats on the Ohio State win. It was the game of games. Just got back from Ohio today (home to take down Christmas decorations in my parents home and celebrate at luncheon with friends at the Golden Lamb restaurant and hotel in Lebabnon, Ohio. Ever been there? It is fantastic.

Happy New Year to everyone. God Bless America, God keep our nation safe, God help us to liberate the Iraqi people (that will be a GREAT DAY!), God help those in Afganistan and protect them from harm, God Bless our military and their families, and God Bless the wonderful, richly patriotic and compassionate folks who haunt the FR boards!