04/01/2020
There are some things about our country that go beyond political rhetoric and media mania.
*Carnival Cruise Line said “We can match those big Navy hospital ships with some fully staffed cruise ships.”
*GM & Ford said, “Hold our cars, watch this; we can make ventilators where we were making cars by next week.”
*Construction companies said, “Here are some masks for the medical staff & doctors.”
*Restaurants & schools said, “We’ve got kitchens & staff; we can feed the kids.”
*NHL & NBA players are writing checks to pay the arena staff during postponed seasons.
*Churches are holding online services & taking care of their members & community.
*Women & children are making homemade masks & handing out snacks to truckers.
*Breweries are making sanitizer out of the left-over ingredients.
*We thought we couldn’t live without baseball, hockey, & NASCAR, or going to beaches, restaurants, or a bar.. Instead, we’re ordering take-out to help keep businesses alive.
Every day we see a new story of courage, of hope, of people stepping up to fill the breach and stem the tide. Most people are abiding by the precautions put in place to protect us all. The panic that emptied stores of things like toilet paper, hand sanitizer and other goods has subsided.
What the naysayers didn’t count on was America saying, “Hold my beer, and watch this.”
To paraphrase Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese Admiral who planned the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941, 'I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled (it) with a terrible resolve.'
Give us a little more time & we will be doing much better! It's going to take us all working together to beat this. That's not to say it will be easy or without personal sacrifice. It will be perhaps the greatest challenge to face the world in a generation. But with the grace of God, working together, we can do it.
We are one nation, indivisible.
Copy & pasted with some personal edits. Original author unknown. Pass it on.