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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] [RC] I had a wonderful time. - Howard Bramhall - Barbara McCrary

America was a new start and a nurturing home for young man from Russia, who escaped from there by the skin of his teeth during the Revolution, arriving in San Francisco with the clothes on his back and very little money.  Couldn't speak English, but went right to work finding a job, learning our language, working hard, making friends with his kindness, his courteous ways, his honesty and integrity.  Then he met an American woman whom he engaged to teach him English and ended up being engaged to marry her.  He never met a person he didn't like, nor one who didn't like him.  He was a very special person, my father.
 
Barbara
 
And if you want to equate this to endurance, think of him taking four years to reach the east coast of Siberia, think of him living off bread and tea for a month, think of him joining the Czar's navy so he could eat, think of him taking the risks he did to come to America.  He was only 18 when he left what remained of his home in western Russia.
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Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] [RC] I had a wonderful time. - Howard Bramhall

America is the "Greatest Generation" those males that put the need of 
their country ahead of theirs. It is the men and women that go to war 
and the "Rosie the Riveter" that kept the industrial machine back home 
working to keep the troops rolling.

America is the men and women that answered the call in Vietnam and the 
men and women that also answered the call to protest the war they 
thought unjustified and made the scrifice to exercise their rights of 
protest - including those that included flag bruning in their protest 
which was upheld by the highest court in America as valid politcal 
protest . They are both pariots in their own right. Only in America can 
patriotism be defined many different ways and only in America will all 
these definitions be valid!

The protected right to protest is uniquely American as is the rules put 
in writting called the US Constitution.

America is politicians slingling insutls and mud at one another with 
wreckless abandon one day and standing in lock step mass on the steps of 
the Capital two days later singing "God Bless America." America is 
different things to different people. I am sure many foreigners don't 
underestand it. But in some respects America is unique in a lot of 
respects. It is open, it guarantees the rights of it's citizens and 
unlike few other countries it welcomes diveristy, debate, infighting, 
slingling mud, etc. - until someone outside has a stupid moment and 
thinks that that is a weakness. That is the greatest strength of America.

Truman

PS: to make this endurance related so Steph doesn't grind me with her 6 
inch heel on her riding boot  - it took a lot of endurance to delete all 
this dribble about the UAE insulting us because the had our flag 
reversed. If someone didn't like the way the flag was oriented - the put 
the stupid cap on backwards and it was "correct.'" Now can we move on.



Howard Bramhall wrote:

> Antonio, I have no idea.  That was kind of the point I was trying to 
> make.
--

   "It is necessary to be noble, and yet take humility as a basis.

    It is necessary to be exalted, and yet take modesty as a foundation."

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RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] [RC] I had a wonderful time. - Howard Bramhall, Howard Bramhall
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