I'd like to begin by talking about the past

Since I've been given this opportunity to express in ways many won't be, I hope it is an accurate reflection of how you may come to see things —it is my sincere desire to also speak or give words to what you would write or come to understand.

May it be a blessing to all of us who enter this grand bold new adventure into the future by reminiscing briefly about the past.

To look in reverence and humility at our past and know what we cannot adequately express in word except in poetic fashion.

Those of us who have hunted, fished, loved, hated, and experienced the terrible ravages of war and other things like it, know there is much to life that can't be expressed in words.

That there is still the sublime in horror such as war –that being caught up in the power of certain conditions beyond your control can lead to a respect for life that's hard to describe.

And to live through unimaginable experiences and survive carries a weight that some find too hard to carry. But this too is a test of the determination to live in spite of everything.

To those that continue to survive "in spite of life giving them a bad deal or break", they can take a sort of pride or satisfaction in not letting life's circumstances get the best of them.

Most of us come from a heritage of a hard life; out fathers and grandfathers of the past century only started to live life differently and not necessarily better.

Just look at what they had to endure,- two world wars and other conflicts that caused conditions that wouldn't be good in any sense of the word, and their fathers and grandfathers had an even harder life in a way.

They all lived and survived fighting, struggling taking the punches life threw at them, and in the midst of all it, produced what history says to be the largest population of humans earth has ever known.

Their life all revolved around love and hate, joy and sorrow, they all felt the full range of emotions their reality placed them in. leaving some with no reason to live except their determination to live.

It's much like a statement in a song "life is made for living" and it can't be simplified more than that or said better.

No matter how much you try that's all you've had when life's finished.

Now I would like you to join me in remembrance of our time –those of us that grew up in the last century also shared in the experiences of a hard life to some extent, whether by choice or design.

But I do not necessarily feel like Tom Brocaw in the respect, that our fathers who fought the Second World War were the greatest generation.

Even though I could feel proud about that because my father was in the Second World War and received a Purple Heart along with other recognition.

But I do not believe heroism or courage "as such" is the direction to go as it has before.

I believe history will record us as the greatest generation, because we will be the catalyst for the changes that really changed the fate of man.

---We will be the greatest generation because we will be the one who refused to keep killing our fellow man, we will be the one's who learned to live in peace.

We will truly stand out as those who no longer needed to study war because we will move beyond war.

Now to regress a bit I would like to acknowledge our past, (to make a statement about our Fathers and Gandfathers), those that Tom classified as the greatest generation. -- — TO BE CONTINUED—Back to website base page