To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/09/18 11:22
Subject: [K-list] my posts
From: Michael Read
On 2001/09/18 11:22, Michael Read posted thus to the K-list:
if you would like to forward my babblings, please feel free to do so.
even if it just to let someone else laugh at this madman from New
Mexico, USA. ":^)
we americans are cowboys! no other country in the world was explored
and settled quite like ours. and we were watched by the whole world as
we grew.
my Father was a genuine american cowboy. the most handsome man you
ever saw. he made the marlboro man look like a sissy! but he was a
gentle man. he had a sweet and tender side to him. and was he ever
tough! it was not a good idea to get into a fight with him. he could
hit so hard that adversaries were knocked 20 feet away.
he was a product of his times. born in the late 1920's. the west
largely tamed though life was still demanding. no electricity in most
places, no tv, and you had to work hard. wages were around 10 to 20
cents an hour.
i never knew all that much about my family. and not much more about my
Dad. my parents divorced while we kids were young 6, 5, and 3. i
mostly had a picture of my Dad. and i had a love hate thing too. hate
for the lack of financial support. and i loved him when i was with
him. even though he liked my brother better - i loved him.
he died young, age 44. cancer and a rough life.
i spent time with him before he died, but wasn't there when he died.
before he died he said something that surprised and connected me with
him in a deep way. we were talking, Dad, a couple of his cowboy
friends, and me, about war and vietnam. it was an interesting setting.
Dad's friends seem to be looking to him for some sort of guidance. it
was as if they had an almost reverent attitude as they waited for him
to speak.
This is what he said -
'I have never talked to you guys about this. But this is how I feel
about it. No one should die over a flag. It is nothing more than a rag
blowing in the wind.'
that was a long speech for Dad.
this is the real spirit of america.
we are rough and tough.
we are not afraid.
we do not hate anyone. at least in theory.
we have every kind of person living here.
we are founded on the idea of freedom.
we are still growing and may make many more mistakes.
we care about suffering.
we have suffered as the world has suffered.
we give because it is the right thing to do.
we share our abundance.
we would prefer to trade with you
than to meet you on the battlefield.
all people are allowed to hold any religion
sacred from the needs of government.
you do not have to even care about religion
to live here is enough - you are an american.
this is the spirit of americans
we are the true government
we do not want our elected officials
killing innocent people
just because they do not like us and like some other country.
i do not want to kill anyone
killing is the easy, cowardly way out.
loveya - michael
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