By TomL
When I was a young lad of 14 years old I belonged to the Optimist Club of Dania Beach Florida. We had all kinds of activities going on my dad was a boxing coach, so you know what happened next. He had me in the ring but I did not like it. Time went on and the other boxing coaches son challenged me and I said I was not interested. That went on for a while when finally my dad said, are you afraid of him? I said no but I’m not interested in fighting him without cause. Well it seemed that was not good enough so we fought the next week. My dad said do exactly what I taught you and you will be alright. He had a few pounds on me but when the fight started he started fast a furious but when I landed a couple of good punches he went crazy which is what my dad said he would do. I covered up and got in three more good punches in and they stopped the fight. That is what I have been doing all my life. Cover up and come back!
To get back to the Optimist Club. That same year we had an oratorical contest. I won a trip to the nationals, to Cuba to compete, Castro was fighting in the hills.
The subject of my speech was FREEDOM OUR MOST PRECIOUS HERITAGE! My speech started out with Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address begins with the words, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. (It also means women) the speech went on mentioning Immigration, Elis Island and I finished 4th in the competition. An eighteen year old from Tennessee won but the Grand finally was Batista the dictator was in attendance. We met, I shook his hand but they hurried me out because of my political thoughts. They are still doing that today.
I have wanted to give my thoughts on HOPE & PRIDE. Listen to me please. Negative feed back will sour our lives. Hope is one of the most important things. I would say God / Family / Hope / Pride with everything you do. If you can’t be proud of it don’t do it!
Our leaders need to think more about pride and less about money and telling us what to do. First they create a crisis, then they allocated our tax dollars to fix it and then the money disappears. If you take a good look at our current government and it is riddled with criminal investigation. The news media reporting negative news and now a criminal has got an attorney to ask for a cease and Desist reporting. The Tax money going to
Parenthood kills 350,000 babies every year and receives $500,000,000 in tax dollars annually.
A man who left 300,000 guns for the Taliban is lecturing us the Americans on gun control.
