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PROUD MEMBER OF "VETERANS FOR OBAMA" SINCE FEBRUARY, 2007!
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November 10th In U.S. History:

- 1766 The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
- 1775 The Continental Congress authorizes the formation of two battalions of Marines, in order to aid in the coming fight against the British Crown, giving birth to the United States Marine Corps
- 1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
- 1865 Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, GA, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- 1919 American Legion's first national convention (Minneapolis)
- 1924 Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
- 1938 Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" for the first time.
- 1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
- 1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising U.S. Flag) dedicated in Arlington
- 1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
- 1972 Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
- 1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens to visitors in Washington, D.C.
- 1997 WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in U.S. history at the time).
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I am a proud American of Hispanic/American heritage, and a very proud, partially disabled veteran of the 101st Airborne Division 'Screaming Eagles' and the United States Army.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare Mankind for all its later surprises."
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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*** "Veterans" are those who, at some point in their lives, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America', for an amount of up to and including their lives.***

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FAIR WARNING: I fully support freedom of speech, but these things I will NOT tolerate:

* Religious fundamentalism and/or fanaticism.
* Anti-American attitudes, or insults against the USA, the American Flag, or the American people, wherever they may come from.
* Stupidity, Narrow-Mindedness, Willful Ignorance, Bigotry, Prejudice, Intolerance, and unprovoked Mean-Spiritedness.

I subscribe to Agnosticism and Secularism, for these practices lend themselves perfectly to the encouragement of harmony and peace between all kinds of people in all the countries on our Earth.

I passionately believe in the vital principle of Separation between Church and State, and in the spirit of religious freedom that compelled our earliest forefathers to cross an ocean and to establish the shining city on a hill that is America.

I support the Second Amendment, but I do not support those who want to arm themselves to the teeth with automatic assault rifles just because they can.

I agree with Michael Moore and Nancy Pelosi on some things, and I agree with Newt Gingrich and The Wall Street Journal on others.

I STRONGLY believe in the concept of 'Peace Through Strength', but I also believe in the concept that says it takes a village to raise a child.

I believe that ALL Americans should have access to health care that is GUARANTEED by the government, but I also believe in the enduring philosophy behind Alexander Hamilton's genuinely American economic super-system.

I'm all for a free-market economy, and for efficient and unobtrusive government, but I'm strongly against the prevailing tendency to engage in what I call Darwinian Capitalism, because it represents a clear and present danger to our republican democracy as we know it.

I believe abortion is a completely private and personal issue that deals exclusively with personal responsibility. NOBODY has a right to tell a woman what to do with her body.

I fully support Gay and Lesbian rights, and believe that they should be free to marry and live with ANY person they choose, and that their civil and human rights should not be violated. Sexual orientation is NOT a choice one makes!

I stand in AWE of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and consider them to be the best Presidents we've ever had.

I am a big fan of FDR's New Deal, and an equally big fan of Ronald Reagan's muscular foreign policy. I think the best Republican ever was Theodore Roosevelt, and the best Democrat that ever existed was Harry S. Truman.

I'm politically active as a registered Independent, and consider myself a Centrist. I could be a very liberal Republican, or a very conservative Democrat, and I am extremely happy and proud to be an American, and to be represented as a Citizen of the United States by President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden.

I believe the next four years will see the United States of America recover and go back to its preeminent position of leadership and success among the community of nations. YES WE CAN, AND YES WE WILL!!

So I thank you again for visiting my channel, and I ask you to be respectful, coherent, and civil. ENJOY!! };-)