Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   No Major Date:   10/7/2019 10:28:25 PM (updated 10/7/2019 10:30:15 PM)

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Because I teach a course on the American Revolution, I was thinking of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin (et al).  They served their country at their own expense.  Marquis de Lafayette (of France) lost his fortune financing our revolution.  All of them… in true Masonic practice… revealed that “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” would prove more beneficial than personal fortune.  Each of them earned a legacy of reverence. 

The “lovely prose” I wrote is based in the selflessness of our founding fathers.  I did not name or even indirectly refer to a single 20^th or 21^st century president.

 You name a president (leader) and then form your own opinion based on my premise(s). YOU judge or convict a president (leader) based on his benefit… or degradation… of our nation. 

I consider how my family has fared under the last several presidential terms.  I regard the performance of my retirement portfolio in the same light.

 Let me remind you that I served in Iraq under the Obama administration and… to be fair… under the scraps of the Bush administration. 

In closing, I repeat my quote from Anaïs Nin:

We don’t see thinks as THEY are;

We see them as WE are.