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[Mark Lowry]

Rolondo,

I am not a columnist or a writer. I am as it says just another retired person living in hell. I merely write what I feel compelled to write. It is though there is an invisible force that guides my hands and words appear that really don't sound like me, but really reflect how I feel. Sometimes it awakens me from deep sleep and makes me to write when there is no desire on my part.

I am humbled by your kind words but can take no credit. I too stand for the same things you do. My parents were Irish and our ancestors came to America during the potato famine. We came to a country that changed our language as we got off the boat. They signed them up to the military during the civil war. My great grand fathers on both sides worked on the railroads during the robber baron era.

Dad was born in a poor part of town called Irish town. His dad died when dad was 8 years old. He didn't get past the 6th grade and started working with his grand mother and sisters in tobacco redriers. Mom's family had a similar history. The Irish were not well liked and called white niggers by many and not permitted to work. Job advertisements had the NINA or No IRISH NEED APPLY statement on them.

My grand father signed up by lying about his age to fight in World War One in France with the Rainbow division. Most of our family has fought in one war or another for this country and appreciate opportunity to be in a country where the government doesn't come, drag you out of your bed and kill you like what happens in a lot of countries.

A lot of people do not appreciate that but in a lot of countries a persons life is hanging by a thread. It is ridiculous for people to disrespect America. It is ok to disrespect the leaders but never the country because the citizens are the country. I think Abraham Lincoln said America is the last beacon and hope for the world. That is still true.

I was first in our family to ever go to college and graduated in 1969. I worked at night to do it and then got an MBA. I had a lot of difficulty getting stable work during the Nixon presidency and stagflation that was to follow.Most jobs required a lot of hours of work. I finally got a job in local government where I stayed until I got cancer 8 years ago and had to take disability. I am in remission now for five years and just turned 60. No one ever thought I would make it this far. It is an honor not of my making.

I often ask why God spared me. When I first got sick I was told I would die in a matter of days. There was no hope. That did not happen. After two years of Chemotherapy I made it to this point.

I was in a support group with about 20 others with different types of cancer. I saw most of them die. We agreed at the beginning, knowing we were all terminal, that who ever died first would be on the other side to welcome the rest of us. I had conversations with a lot of dying people about that and promised I was going to look for them first when I died. We made unbreakable bonds on this pact and became like family; a family joined in disease and the fight to live.

We got to a point where we didn't fear death but we were lonely. I compare it to taking a trip that only you can take. None of your family loved ones or friends can go with you. That is whats rough about death, what you leave behind not what you go to, especially if you have faith in the hereafter and God that will carry you through.

That stuck with me and made it a lot easier to handle the disease. When I got sick friends asked their churches to pray for me. My name got confused with the singers' and prayer requests went all over the world. I think that mistake had a lot to do with how I made it when so many others didn't. My wife was a strong supporter during  hospital stays and the chemo. She always told me I would make it.

Before dad died he used to come and pray with me and told me the same. My oncologist has told me several times I was a miracle for being alive and now thinks I can live as long as another five years with a 50% chance of no more chemotherapy. He always is giving five year goals which is a pretty good idea.

I still get sick a lot and found the only thing I can do without too much trouble is write. What I write comes not from me, it is like somebody else talking. It doesn't sound like me but clearly mirrors my heartfelt thoughts.

We can not lose what so many people have worked so hard to preserve. I think it is terrible to have people who don't appreciate what it takes to maintain freedom to think they can walk in and get benefits of it and not care. They just want the money.

They don't understand what life is about. A person has to love and respect his family and those who have sacrificed for them. They have to respect the country because that is the family. We are all like one people even though each of us is different. New illegals have no idea what that means and never will. They can not imagine hatred they stir up when they spit on the flag or fly another. That flag is us they are spitting on.

I have been motivated by the concept of the power of one. A single individual can make a difference in life and change  outcome of history. Jesus Christ did that and so did Hitler.

Power of one enables us to struggle on when  odds are against us. And as long as there is one of us, others will join. Power of one grows real fast when everyone recognizes strength in unity and becomes so outraged they move to act. That is what's going on in America now. Don't stop, keep sending your letters and let others know.

We do this not for ourselves, but to pay back our fathers for their sacrifice and to make the way easier for our children who must be taught to appreciate gifts we bestow upon them.

Whether you know it or not you and your wife are American Patriots. You are the people who the government is created of by and for. This is your government and belongs to you. It is not Bush's or the politicians. It is ours. They can not give away what we have fought and died for. We won't let them. We own this country.

They have to know that and the more we tell others and they get courage to standup with us the more we will change face of our history. Silence is the same as consent to what they are doing. I will not remain silent as long as God gives me breath. I will die defiant and fighting for what is right.

Motivation  drives and pushes me. I am by nature laid back and not too much of for working hard. Fear of failure pushes me a lot. This may sound odd to you but I feel  I owe not only my country, but God and people who prayed for me for giving me additional life. Without them I have no right to be here. I appreciate each day and can not waste a minute of it to pay back blessings received. I am truly blessed, and one of the lucky ones, but that has created a huge sense of duty that I will not fail to handle.

 "For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time."-Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland

We are all equal in this task, none is better or worse than the other. We each have the same ownership and benefit of America and abilities and strengths to share in our effort to save Her and our liberty. The greatest of which may be our undying devotion and determination to succeed. That is an unbeatable force coming from people who know and appreciate what they can lose.

Thanks again for your kind words; keep the faith and don't give up.

On 2/11/07, chile2194...@yahoo.com <chile2194...@yahoo.com> wrote:

America on Edge of the Abyss, A step away from disaster.The American Chronicle February 11, 2007.

 

Dear Mr. Lowry:

 

Read your article. An excellent piece of work that I think Americans should read reflect and act upon. Perhaps it is my wishful thinking.Your other articles are also brilliantly written.

 

 I am totally amazed at how so many Americans seem to be totally clueless and passive on the issues you so clearly writte about. 

 

I am outraged at America's betrayal  by  the Bush's Administration and the Hispanic elected officials (Mexicans,Cubans, and Puerto-Ricans), who in their pursue of their personal agendas are promoting and contribuiting to our Nation's destruction.

 

To protest, I  fax,email,call, the President, my Senators, my Congressman, the Governor of my State,and the Speaker of the House, on issues of illegal immigration, trade agreements,broken borders,North American Trade Union, the unjust incarceration of Ramos and Compean,to name a few.

 

Daily, I email my group list,articles such as yours, to inform them and to made them aware of the systematic and relentless erosion of America as a Nation,its english language and culture. Rarely,I receive back a comment on an article send.

 

I am one of those Legal Immigrant (as is my wife), that came to America, to become an American,to embrace the values, the language, the culture. Not to change America into the Country and culture I was running away from.

 

Sincerely,

 

Rolando N

South Padre Island,TX

 

 

P.S.My Internet search on your name to learn your back ground as columnist came "empty". The search linked to a "Mark Lowry" a musician, are you one of the same? A link to  information on your Biographical professional back ground will be welcome.

 

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Mark, 8th member SU7+1,
http://groups.google.com/group/standup71 Populist-American, retired in hell-USA's worst Sanctuary City: Corrupt, Ignorant, Backwater, Lawless Lex. Ky. Free Ramos And Compean! [STOP MEXICAN INVASION, DEMAND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BEFORE INTERNATIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS UNDERMINE NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY. It ain't over! He who dares not offend cannot be honest: Thomas Paine • Eisenhower: "The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government."