What a year, huh?
I can’t say that it was all peaches and cream for me and my family. Losing my father and mother-in-law were just the two hardest parts of a year filled with troubles. On the other hand, my step-daughters wedding was an exceptionally grand and joyful event. As always, we have to take the good with the bad.
If I’m to have a resolution for this year it is to be more patient with everyone – from wife to family to friends to perfect strangers, I want to be much more patient than I’ve ever been before. A gentle answer turneth away wrath.
My hope for the year is that we secure victory in Afghanistan so that we can start to bring our troops home from there. I pray the economy turns around so that people will no longer bear such a burden of worry about the future. I hope that our government changes course and realizes that, just perhaps, the desires of academics and Europeans are not necessarily suitable for the United States.
I hope you all have a very fun and safe new year and I wish to thank you all for coming here and bearing with us here at Blogs for Victory.