1464 A MEMORIAL DAY REFLECTION

Today, I'm choosing to place personal frustrations aside in favor of reflecting over Memorial Days in years past, for this reason:  I'm feeling grateful to have grown up in a country where our flag serves as a national symbol of on-going growth and unification of fifty highly diversified states in which people of all ethnicities continue to seek workable solutions in hopes of outing governmental corruption so as to facilitate legislative action meant to create change for the better, which will serve the greater good of one and all ... and now that our last election has served to reveal the underbelly of our legislature more clearly than ever before, hopefully, the voting populous has taken note of the importance of remaining abreast of current events as we mark our time until our responsibility to vote for candidates, who have historically heeded the needs of the majority, is placed, yet again, in the electorates' eyes-wide-open hands ...