I started off by posting some of the post I had forgot to put on my Blog but all things being equal I figured I would post my comments rather than letting them set on a computer. After reading some of the things I have written about, I guess you could get an impression that I am some old man who just bitches a lot. But I do for good reason. I have lived a life in ways that most people would never understand. I grew up under a Military father who traveled all over the world with his family. Take for instance, when I was 16 years old we traveled to Izmir Turkey. Wow, what a change. I went to a country I had no idea about to live among the people I knew nothing about. But I embraced it. I learned their language and their culture. While I was there I went to 4 of the seven churches of Sardis. I visited ruins that were 3000 years old and met people of all faiths and cultures. What I had come away with was a fantastic understanding and a great appreciation of my country. Not because I looked down on theirs but when I come home I was proud to be an American and was living in a country with free people and given a way to too chart my own path in life. Because you see even in Turkey you are restricted by your religion or ethnic make up or even if you live in a poor area. You did not have the rights that we have here. And we tend to take that for granted. I have traveled to just about every country in the world and I would still come back to this one. But I have been worried lately, are we losing that country to try and be like the ones I visited? I hope not. Because you see the options there are not the same as they are here.
Robert D Moore
PhD
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