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Hello folks -
I have wanted to write to you all day, but the need for sleep got in the
way. Now, rested, I awoke to a little sunshine breaking through the gray and
rain of this day in San Francisco, with even a hint of a rainbow.
It is not lost on me that the day's weather has been like a metaphor for
what I also awoke to in my Inbox ... the words of determination, anger,
hope, and resolve from so many of you. The outpouring of these feelings is
the best medicine for all of us right now, and I appreciate it so much that
you are taking the time to share them with me.
By tomorrow I will begin posting your messages on our website at
www.seniorsforamerica.com for all of us to share. I hope that some of you
who received meaningful responses from people you wrote to during our
letter-writing projects will also share those.
Many of you have received Gov. Dean's strong words of encouragement and his
invitation for all to attend their DFA Meetups tonight. I share his
sentiments ... "This is not an ending"... we are a strong community and we
will endure. (please visit http://dfa.meetup.com/ to locate a DFA Meetup
near you ... held on the first Wed of each month at 7 pm.)
Finally, I'll leave you with the following words from Thomas Paine that
someone sent today ... that are as timely today as when they were first
written.
Thinking of you all,
Howard
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"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier
and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service
of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and
thanks of man and woman.
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this
consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious
the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is
dearness only that gives every thing its value.
"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods;
and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article
as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."
--Thomas Paine
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Howard Vicini
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