What an incredibly lucky man I am to have been born in America! I grew up in an American poverty that was not degrading but offered me a dream. I had a dozen aunts and uncles and knew and loved them all as individuals. As a boy, I had best friends, who though I seldom see them nowadays, are becoming better friends as time goes by.
I've lived to be 60. And through my reading and writing, I've had the unbelievable good fortune of living my life many times over! It is impossible to list all the people I have known and the places I have been. I've fallen in love a hundred times.
America made it possible. I can only smile at anyone who compares any American president to Hitler or Stalin.
In 1971, I spent a year traveling by bus through the Third World. And somewhere in one of the dusty dictatorships, I realized I was true blue American through and through. I'm a proud liberal who understands that the virus of fanaticism can affect both liberals and conservatives. Tolerant people, who believe America can be a better place, will shape the bright future of our country.
Roger E. Carrier
Sandy