Regardless of your political bearing, I encourage everyone, as Americans, to take a moment and reflect on what we as a country are doing and what we as a nation stand for. In the midst of a nation divided and a world where God is not the focal point, I, as an American, would like to take the opportunity and continue with Miss Nester's list of prayers that she submitted in the Nov. 4, 2004 issue of The Post:
God bless the over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers patrolling the streets and landscape of their country side-by-side with their American brothers and sisters deployed by President Bush, and the over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police securing their country's safety.
God bless the 1,500 schools that have been renovated and rid of weapons that were stored there, so education can occur for the 80 percent increase in school attendance in Iraq, and for the first time ever, for the girls and women allowed to attend those schools.
God bless the 3,000 plus children in the state of Ohio who will be adopted in this coming year. Just as my family adopted my youngest sister, these children also will have safe, loving homes to grow up in.
God bless the 214,500 families that have lost their jobs over the past few years; be with them in their time of struggle. If President Bush could snap his fingers and give them their jobs back, Lord willing, he would.
God bless our beautiful land that we live in; thank you for our air that keeps us and our president living with each and every breath, and for our incredibly beautiful campus that we have the privilege to learn upon. The beauty of our environment is amazing.
God bless the homosexual people in our country. Protect them in the workplace; let them continue to live in harmony with their heterosexual neighbors and families.
God bless Sen. Kerry and his role as a leader in our great nation. Thank you for his wisdom and leadership in our country's Senate; may he continue to fight for America in our nation's capital.
I hope these requests do not echo the hollow and sarcastic ones listed in the Nov. 4, 2004 issue of The Post. I think as a country we need to focus on the things we are doing well and the many blessings we have and have extended as a free people. God, bless this country and let us move to the extreme right under our fine president and away from the extreme-liberal and ultra-conservative division we are now a part of.
-Tommie Shimrock is a freshman middle childhood education major. Send him an e-mail at thomas.shimrock@ohiou.edu.
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