Because America hasn't been attacked since September 11, 2001

Has anyone else heard the media literally gushing all over themselves in the last few days? We are all supposed to be grateful President Bush is finally gone, as if he were an embarrassment. I know it isn't popular, but I happen to think President George W. Bush is a person with strong moral character and a steel resolve. Though he led in times of crisis for America, he defended freedom, went after terrorism, and inspired Americans everywhere to get involved in service to country. For Fred Barnes' take on Bushes Achievements: 10 Things The President Got Right, click here.

Senator Orrin Hatch recently gave an excellent Bush farewell address to the Senate and ended by quoting something that was originally spoken by President Roosevelt in 1910:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

One of the problems today is that we all want more than what we have, without any thought of how bad it could be.

This picture was ironically taken on September 11, 2001. Ryan was about three months old and I had an enormous amount of high hopes for our family's future....

And this picture was taken last Sunday on a walk to the lake. In the last seven years, I have moved freely from state to state, had two more children, received good medical care, voted, made lifelong friends, had good schools for my children to attend, sent my husband off to war, and worshipped freely. It hasn't been without some hard times, but I'd say I have a lot to be grateful for. Thanks, President Bush.