Sunday, January 29, 2012

Citizens

My daughters came home from college this weekend to be with their mother while I am in DC and yesterday Rosey led them to the neighborhoods around us that were struck by the tornadoes of last week to help clean up. They will be back out there today as well. I'm as proud as a frog eating fire of them all.

8 comments:

TL671 said...

Wait, isn't that the government's job? Speaking of which, next time you talk to them ask if there was any government presence. You have plenty to be proud of. Neighbors helping neighbors, as it should be. Sounds like an unorganized militia to me.

Spartan said...

God Bless you all. Here's a little something to chew and a Sunday treat. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xohy9gWz7kk&feature=youtu.be

W W Woodward said...

They are their mother's and daddy's children. You are understandably proud as well you should be.

[W3]

Female III said...

The mark of a true militia family. Acting out of love, not self-love. Doing what is right, not what will get their picture in the paper. Getting the job done, not begging others to get the job done. Heading out the door prepared to work with others, not trying to round up a work force of which to be in charge.

Not to be unfair, I'm sure there may be a Leftist or two out there as well. While your militia-minded family is rolling up their sleeves and pitching right in alongside others to dig people out from under debris, a Leftist leader might be across the street with a megaphone, barking orders to her people who are carrying donuts and telling them to direct the news truck her way when they get there.

I'm proud of your family too, Mr. V.

ParaPacem said...

Good kids. Must be a great blessing. Maybe not angels, maybe not perfection personified, but good hearts and good minds, groping their way along toward adulthood. Some days I wonder if our kids will pass us by... they seem to get older and wiser, we tend to stay the same.

BTW - my beloved is home from hospital now, no need for lung biopsy, just cleaned lungs out & started new antibiotics. So it looks like we both have some things to be thankful for.
Be well and take care; and if you get a note to meet Vince Foster in the park late one night, just don't reply.
j

Anonymous said...

God be with you and your family, Mike.

.......and please God be with all of us in the fight which, as the days roll on, seems more and more inevitable...

Ashrak said...

Several years ago, tornadoes blew through this neck of the woods and tore things up real good. All around us, damage and despair. Our house, not even a shingle lifted.

In some ways we felt fortunate, in others we almost felt a little guilty. Blessed we felt without a doubt.

It was wonderful watching the community come together, and for the most part without even so much as anybody making a call for help. Tractors came out, trucks and trailers, bobcats, you name it, people were using it. Folks just banded together in small groups and cut and chopped and loaded and burned.

On fella in particular had his whole farm just decimated and people from all over the area came to help out. My kids (pretty young at the time) asked why so many people were there. I answered them this way..... If your house was tore up this bad, wouldn't you be wishing folks would come help you clean it up?

To this day I have not seen my kids work so hard.....and for nothing more than the satisfaction of helping a fellow family in need.

I know the feeling you describe Mike, it fills the heart and shoves aside all the ills that try to invade it.

That leads me to this...

3%? Me thinks there are far more than that when it comes right down to it........

Anonymous said...

Enjoy this time of victory... in spite of what the bastards may think and say, your family shows them all to be wrong to the core.