For those who read my blogs and read my life’s journey, you know when I purchased a computer I didn’t know how to turn it on and didn’t know what a mouse, hard-drive and monitor was. I still wrestle with it and type with two fingers. I don’t venture far from my e-mail because I’m afraid I might not be able to get back to it.
However, I have discovered a few exciting things and one is a website by Heritage Foundation. They e-mail wonderful liberty quotes that I sometimes use in my articles. I clicked on the site last night and discovered they will send pocket size editions of The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution for free to anyone who requests them. They stated they have sent out 500,000 copies this year. That’s exciting news to me to hear that many are interested in reading those documents.
Actually, I have had days lately that I’ve felt so sad over the downward spiral of our freedom in this country, and woke up this morning thinking I should write some funny political stuff. I grew up in the Depression years and have heard a lot of talk about politics. Since then, I’ve heard more and read a lot, so what I’m going to write I really do not recall who said it or where I heard it. But here are some political jokes . . .
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In 1964 I was living in the little town of Smyrna, Tennessee, about half way between Nashville and Murfreesboro, when the election for a new president was in full swing. The Republican Convention would select Goldwater (the Arizona senator) or Richard Nixon as its candidate. Goldwater was portrayed as the ultra conservative and Nixon more liberal.
I had returned to the United States in 1960 after living in Japan for four years, having been married to an air force military pilot. Upon return, we lived in Reno, Nevada two years before moving to Smyrna, Tennessee. Several years prior to this time, I had become very interested in learning more about the philosophy of freedom and about this country I loved so dearly. A series of events led up to my wanting to learn more about this democratic government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” I had studied about in high school civics.
The military officer I was married to at the time had returned a few months before from a tour in Vietnam where he was in an air sea rescue flying helicopters. He had previously served in World War II, then a year in the Korean War. In between the major wars, he did many tours away from home doing other things to serve this country, like seven months in Burma training the Burmese to fly helicopters, among other temporary duties away from home.
