I have to say that I don't have that feeling called "working for the weekend." Friday is a day that I am no longer excited about, because it is the second busy day compared to Monday.
Although, I do get to wear jeans to work in the office which is exhilarating. I feel like I'm in a scene from Office Space, the one about Hawaiian Shirt Day. If you don't know what I am talking about, just watch below.
It's been a crazy week.
There was a tragic killing in Florida that has been hijacked by the media, race hustlers, and political agitators before the justice system works.
Hunger Games have surprisingly grown to great popularity albeit a Libertarian message that is at odds with a largely Utopian Progressive Hollywood.
Obamacare has taken a severe beating with weak arguments by the Solicitor General in defense of health care overhaul. And the apparent strong possibility of the individual mandate being in trouble. The mandate is the proverbial foundation to the housing structure of the bill for which it will all crumble.
Tim Tebow get's a press conference for coming in as a "back-up" quarterback. This ignited "Tebowmania" throughout the NY countryside, through Jersey Shore, and up to Times Square.
Obama was caught on a hot mic telling the Russian President that he would have "more flexibility" when his "last election" was over to better discuss disarmament.
You may be saying to yourself, "Ya, here are some the headlines and stories I have seen or read." That's great. You are a great American citizen who keeps yourself informed. This is called blogging, so bear with me.
Now, how about this story that should be at the top of the list and talked about more than Treyvon or Tebow. Army Specialist Dennis Weichel sacrificed his own life for a little Afghani girl. Yes...An Afghani girl. I'll say it again. One of our US soldiers pushed a little innocent Afghani girl out of the path of an armored vehicle steaming forward, crushing the ground beneath.
Well, I guess this story was not as "edgy" as the isolated incident of a mentally exhausted man that was re-sent to the war front despite his mental condition that killed 17 Afghan civilians.
I can reach the end of this week with Tebow, Treyvon, Hunger Games, and Obamacare in my mind. On the other hand, I could end this week with one example of many of the greatness of the American spirit and character exhibited by Army Specialist Dennis Weichel on my mind.
Good Friday is not until April 6th but I am choosing this Friday as a "Good" Friday to ponder on this great country and it's courageous military whose momentous work that protects life and liberty. This life and liberty was extended to a little girl from a far away country at the expense of a great soldier, man, and father of three. He died for a child not of his own.
What is life? Is it our own to never lay down for another? Blood has been shed for the cause of liberty. I don't think we should be over in Afghanistan but this soldier was. And a little girl is alive today because of him. I can focus all day about the brutal costs of blood and money in these wars. However, I must not forget that our military men and women are greater than even my most solid argument against interventionist war. They do fight for liberty whether or not those who send them do.
May God bless Army Specialist Dennis Weichel's family and the little Afghani girl and her family. In the five minutes till Friday I could have wasted it on a hot, edgy media headline. I choose Army Specialist Dennis Weichel over ________________________ (insert whatever-the-hell-you-want.)
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