[Aliska]

Maybe I ought to do a photo essay and perhaps talk to people on how the decline of industry has affected them here in Pittsburgh, maybe I could be the next Jack London, David Graham Phillips or Upton Sinclair, (noted muckrakers) it's worth a shot. B-)

I think you ought to do that, only cover more of the country if you can. Use this thread as a backdrop, kind of interweaving, flashback style. Don't quote more than you are allowed or you will be in copyright violation.

As for myself, I need to publish my book of WWII letters. Might give our troops some inspiration. I sincerely regret that I didn't include them in my list of people I stick up for too many posts back. God bless our troops.

Later maybe we should talk more about how they suffer on the home front in their service of our country. It puts a strain on the best of marriages, and they get in trouble financially. During 'Nam, one of my husband's fellow soldiers got into financial difficulties and jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. I saw what some of the others went through and how they were treated as trash and exploited with rent deposits by the locals. About a chapter's worth. They (the troops and their wives) never complained or stuck up for themselves. There was much sadness when one got shipped off to 'Nam and the wife went back home to wait it out and/or file for divorce.

[Nowhere Man]

I think you ought to do that, only cover more of the country if you can. Use this thread as a backdrop, kind of interweaving, flashback style. Don't quote more than you are allowed or you will be in copyright violation.

It's something I've been kicking around from time to time. I have a digital camera and carry it around a lot so that could be a start. Don't know if I could cover the country but there is a lot of fodder here in Pittsburgh and I'm sure I could dig up a lot in Youngstown Ohio and other places around here. I got to think about this. I'm sure Upton Sinclair and Jack London got their start this way, I might research them a bit more, get ideas.

As for myself, I need to publish my book of WWII letters. Might give our troops some inspiration. I sincerely regret that I didn't include them in my list of people I stick up for too many posts back. God bless our troops.

Good idea. I know what you mean, sometimes we might forget some that we do not intend to. I know someone here posted about our military families needing foodstamps and such, well, that's a problem too, unfortunatly, that was out of the scope of the debate here but I did respond that is a concern of a lot of us too. I thank our troops everytime I am able to.

Later maybe we should talk more about how they suffer on the home front in their service of our country. It puts a strain on the best of marriages, and they get in trouble financially. During 'Nam, one of my husband's fellow soldiers got into financial difficulties and jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. I saw what some of the others went through and how they were treated as trash and exploited with rent deposits by the locals. About a chapter's worth. They (the troops and their wives) never complained or stuck up for themselves. There was much sadness when one got shipped off to 'Nam and the wife went back home to wait it out and/or file for divorce.

Whar I'm concerned about is between the barking moonbats of the left who want to tear down our society's morals and pillars and the ones who are free traders who want to sell our soul for a quick buck, there might be an Anakin Skywalker in the wings who would take over and say "enough!" He might be of rich lineage or he could have been born in a ghetto. Then it all goes downhill. If there is no Anakin coming down the pike, we will possibly devolve to a 2nd World nation (Communist Bloc living standards, circa 1970's) or worse, 3rd World Nation, break up, or face an atomic war. I don't want that for our nation, us, or our children.