A view from another country

I am not writing a view from me but a view from another country about our country.

We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about the USA .

Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title 'C'ntarea Americii, meaning 'Ode To America ') in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei 'The Daily Event' or 'News of the Day'


~An Ode to America ~

Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs

On 9/ll, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the Army, or the Secret Service that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about Instead the Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.

After the first moments of panic , they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing. On every occasion, they started singing: 'God Bless America !'

I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from h itting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.

How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put into collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy. What on earth can unite the Americans in such way? Their land? Their history? Their economic Power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace, I thought things over, I reached but only one conclusion... Only freedom can work such miracles. Cornel Nistorescu

(This deserves to be passed around the internet forever.) It took a person on the outside - looking in - to see what we take for granted ! GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!

4th of July 08

I love our town of Wasilla, they have the biggest heart when it comes to anything Military, we have so much patriotism in this town. I will share some of the pictures I took of the parade and tell you about what Wasilla did for the 4th of July. We went down to the mall parking lot where I work around 7 am so we could make sure we had a really good spot for everyone, we took the RV so we could have a good place for potty breaks and of course we had the refrig and shady place to sit, the parade started at 11 am so you can see we were really early birds, but not having the experience of knowing what time people show up for spots we were not going to take the chance of losing out, so anyway, we get there around 7, walk over to the Sunrise family restaurant and have breakfast then go back, read the newspaper, by that time it is 8 am, time for a snooze, did not really think we would snooze but the next thing I know it is 10 am and people are starting to arrive all around us. We get our chairs out and wait for everyone else to show up, well,,,,that is another story, anyway, Sarah, Olivia, and Shannon get there in time for the parade, they have so much fun items in the parade I just wish I could show you all the pictures but it takes so much time to upload pictures here and I don't have the patience to wait, anyway, after the parade is over Zach and Jourdan finally get to the RV then they all head down to the park where they have a band playing and free hot dogs and chips, sodas, and whatever else, when they leave Cathy and Rick show up and we sit around and talk and watch the people come and go and by that time the kids return to the RV and we head home. I must say, I did enjoy the parade and our visit in the RV but the rest of the 4th sucked. We did not get together for family time or bar b cue or nothing, after we got home it was just another day, boo hoo...oh well I now know what a 4th of July is in Wasilla, for the most part it is fun but not like the family get together we had in Nevada.

As I mentioned before, Wasilla is very patriot minded. We have Veterens out on the highway every Monday waving their flags at the train station and they do this in rain, snow and sunshine, people will honk at them and they wave their flags back and salute, in August the city will put on a picnic in the park to honor the military and they will read off the names of the military personnel who are serving in Iraq and we can fill out a form to list the names and then they will give us the flag with the one star on it to hang outside our house to show we have military in our home.

I love it here but I miss my family in Nevada very much. I will sign off for now. Love and hugs to all my family who will read my blog.

2008 Alaska Samboree

For those who do not know what a Samboree is, it is a large rv campout that includes people from all over the good old USofA and Canada and it is part of the Good Sam Group. We belong to a chapter here in Alaska called the Northern Lights and I get to do the newsletter each month. It has been a way for me to meet people and to have fun. Each Month from about April through Sept we pick a camping spot all around Alaska to visit and then Oct through March we meet at different members houses and we have a pot luck for our meetings. Anyway back to the Samboree, we only had 65 rigs this year due to the cost of gas but we did get some rigs from Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Montanna, Colorado, Texas and California the rest of us all came from Fairbanks, Anchorage and out here in the Mat-Su Valley. We had games, bingo, crafts, Ice Cream Social, hot dog feed, pot luck night and a tea for the ladies,we had seminars on rv safety and almost anything you would want to know about rving, we had dog show oh my gosh we had so much going on, it was a blast. In the tea we had a quilter who wins first place almost all the time, she has over a 100 quilts and talk about beautiful, wow....wish I had the time and the desire to do quilting, she explained all about different ways to quilt. I made a beaded necklace so I can put my badge on it for the meetings, I also learned another dominoe game called spinner, that is about as much fun as the Mexican Train. Next week we head up to a place called Pinnacle Mountain, but this will be just for our chapter so there will only be about 10 rigs this time. The weather is finally getting beautiful and we are hitting the 70's yeahhhhhhhhhh,,,,I am adding a picture of our sunset and it is 12 am and that is as dark as it gets until about 3 am then it lightens up, but we are now on the downside of our summer and now we are losing about 1 to 3 min a day but we will still have our sunsets much later than you do down below, it really does not start getting dark until about 9 in August. We are going to have our first 4th of July in Alaska, it is a bit bittersweet because we always spend it with the family in Nevada and I am going to really miss that, but I also want to experience the 4th up here in Alaska. I am going to sign off for now I hope all the pictures come out ok and that you can enjoy them.