Who are the Haters?

Mr. Bost, thank you for your response of July 13 to my guest box, “Lest We Forget”.  Your argument sounds rational but your history is scrambled, to say the least.  This may play with the under 40 crowd that has been educated by our failed educational system, but this old fart knows better.  Take the Civil War, I ask you, who were the haters, Abraham Lincoln, those Americans who died at Gettysburg?  My American history says that there are times in the life of men, when it becomes crystal clear that freedom for all is worth my dying.   Abe stood up among his fellow Americans, calling them and us to protect the freedom of all Americans, including those trapped in slavery and racial hatred.  It is a sorry truth that we won’t see this truth in our modern progressive history textbooks.  Can you handle the truth?

True freedom for all the people is worth the reality and finality of death for the few who are called.  Jesus is probably the best example.  Regardless of whatever else men may say about him, at least, he died to protest the inhumanity of men who rule over us, top down, for any reason, religious or political or sometimes both.

 

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca   

We can learn from the coyotes...

News flash!  There are coyotes residing in Landers.  The longtime residents of our community are not surprised by this news or the squealing in the night darkness, out there among the creosote bushes.  As the sun comes up the coyotes run for their hiding places and the security they crave.  Most coyotes dart away at the sight of we humans, they run scared, moving as fast as the jackrabbits.  Coyotes do not bother anyone for they are coyotes who fed off the scraps left by others.  Generally, this resident has very little respect for coyotes.  Then there is Donald.

This coyote is worthy of a name.  Donald is a coyote who is different.  Donald struts down the middle of the cart paths we call roads, he does so in broad daylight.  His strut is slow and deliberate, it could even be called a confident swagger telling us all that he is in charge.  Constantly looking this way and that, Donald runs off from no one, not even we humans, he only struts about his business.  Donald is to be respected and he earns it every day as the leader of the pack.

   

This resident of Landers is not a Donald for I am prone to hide among the bushes but that dog has my respect.  Would that the voters of America would learn to live out the Donald that resides in all of us.

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca