To the Daily Times
May 16, 2008 04:57 pm
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Kentucky’s, and in turn Glasgow’s, time is now.
We finally have a chance to make a difference in a Presidential Primary. We, like our neighbors to the east, have an opportunity to stand up and say: “We want a voice this year!”
The pundits and the experts have said Florida and Michigan voted too early to count. They have also said it is too late for Kentucky and West Virginia to speak. West Virginia didn’t accept the premise and neither should we. We need to scream at the top of our lungs.
WE MATTER!!!!
We need to vote in record numbers in Tuesday’s primary and show New York and California there still lie people in the center of our country.
We are not bitterly hanging to our guns and God here in the bluegrass of Kentucky. We need to say to CNN and MSNBC — church is a place for unity and not bigotry. We need to not whisper, but scream, it’s okay to salute the flag and wear it on your lapel. Many of the people of Kentucky have waved that same flag in battle so we feel it’s the very least a civilian can do. Yes they may think we are odd in our hard fast belief in the Second Amendment but when the shooting starts and a tyrant needs stopped it’s our sons and daughters who are ready on Day 1. These things may be punch lines to the talking heads of cable TV but to us it’s home.
Maybe it is selfish to want our boys and girls back home but when the President needs us, Kentucky never asks why, we just ask where. Is it too much to ask of Iraq to build thier own nation now we have done the heavy lifting?
These I believe are not liberal views or conservative views. These I believe are Kentucky’s views.
So Tuesday when you hear CNN and MSNBC say there is no need to vote, I ask you to not only to consider my thoughts but consider my actions.
I will rise early as I always do. I will see my youngest children off to school. I will walk by the bedroom of my oldest and I will smile because he is safe in his own bed. Then I will look at his picture. He is dressed in a dark blue uniform and bright white hat. His eyes are cold and distant. His collar carries the Globe and Anchor of a United States Marine. He did his duty and now it is my turn.
I will then drive a few short blocks to the polls and I will cast a vote for my candidate. The one they say has lost but still fights on.
I will do this for many reasons but most of all to let America know Kentucky will not lay silent on an issue as important as America’s future.
We are the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and the resting place of Daniel Boone. We are the descendents of people who not bitterly, but proudly, carried a Bible and a long gun into the frontier and built a great commonwealth.
Tuesday we have a choice.
We can go quietly into the night or we can stand and shout.
America, The voice of The Great Commonwealth of Kentucky demands to be heard!
I know the choice I will make. I am positive I know the choice Boone and Lincoln would make.
I am guessing the choice Glasgow will make.
Am I wrong?
J. Pat Dyer
Glasgow
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