I owe the freedom and privileges I enjoy, in large part, to all who fought and are fighting… Those that fight pay an awful price for the rest of us. Thank you to all the men and women who served and are serving and to our Presidents and leaders that had the courage to lead and send.

I am thankful for the work I have and the ability to do it, for free enterprise and competition – for the freedom to decide what kind of work I want to do, the freedom to educate myself to do that work.

I am thankful for the right to believe as I think right, to worship, to have the Bible that is the cornerstone of my chosen faith. Those holes in the lamp shade – bullet holes… I am thankful for the right to bear arms… or not. (Though maybe the person who was taking pot shots at a sign and missed should reconsider…)

I am thankful for my warm house, that I selected, in the place I wanted to be.

I am thankful that I can walk by these mountains.

Veteran’s Day – thank you.