The other day I was talking to a young friend of mine, who is about to go off to fight in Iraq.  I thought it might be nice to have a send off drink together.  Then I remembered he's only 19 yrs. old I can not take him to a bar, nor can I give hime a drink.  It came to me at that moment how truly unfair this situation was.  Here was a young man that had really never had a chance to live,  and here we were sending him and others his age off to die.

How can you be old enough to defense your country, and yet still be dened or refused all the rights accorded other adults.  If putting your life on the line to protect others isn't enough to send you to the head of the class, what is ????

I think we should reward these fine young people with as much as we can spare and then a little more.  At the very least they should have all the rights any other adults in our country has.

As a very wise man said over 2000 years ago

"NO GREATER GIFT CAN A MAN GIVE, THAN TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER."
BY GOD

I would like to hear the thoughts of others on this topic.

There is no reason for anyone in this world to starve.  We have the means to give everyone at least one meal a day.  You will not starve if you get at least one meal a day.  The way  I will help to end hunger is to sell a Cup Of Hope. 

The Cup Of Hope is made up of  recycled cat food containers(Meow Mix and Fancy Feast) plant seeds and cheea pet growing form.  The proceeds minus expenses will be saved until the price of a Feed the Children food truck is obtained.  Each truck will be sent out to areas in need of food. The cost of a Cup Of Hope will be $3.00 +shipping&handling.  The  buyer (if they want) will be listed as a Hunger Fighter.

If interested,  please contact me @ williamdelove@yahoo.com  Together we can change this world.

     I believe and know that each of us can have a profound effect upon our world's condtion.   Even though the changes we seek to make may not be realized in our lifetime, they will take a lot longer if we don't start now.
     One of my favorite prayers set to music is the beautiful prayer of St. Francis of Assisi who lived in the 13th century. What a difference we would make in today's world if every Christian prayed this prayer from the heart regularly:

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be
consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to
eternal life.

Thank you, God, for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully in Jesus' name, amen."

     One of the ways I am changing the world is to pick up litter wherever I go, I speak out when I see someone littering,  I pick-up and sweep up my street and neghiborhood playgrounds.  When I am out doing this, I encounter children that want to know why I am picking up trash.  It gives me a chance to tell them about how they can take control of their neighborhoods in a positive manner.