Remembering

It's good to know America (was) not alone..but what about in Islamabad, in Indonesia, in China,Africa-what were their reactions? this seems to me to be very European centered.In parts of the Middle East/Africa, I'm sure 9/11 is celebrated but 8 years later..does the rest of the world(non-extremist-Muslim)still feel America's pain? (and that's not to say that there are not Muslims who disapprove strongly of the atrocious actions that took place that day..but there are many, many, who still want America to be a smoking heap of rubble)When will the hate end?

D-Blog Day 2008

Oh yeah. That thing called diabetes, which I am duly obligated to blog relentlessly about-it's time to blog about it again. Today of all days. (you know when you just don't want to do it..it's the very day you HAVE to do it.) Ugh.

Well, diabetes, you have made me a stronger person and you have given me many cool cyber-pals and real life-pals and I can't say that it's a total lose-lose situation.
But today will always have a note of sadness mixed into it, diabetes didn't create it but it's there. We should have an National Type 3 Day-those people are the backbone of our lives.
(unfortunately, type 1to type 1 contact is rare, sporadic thing for most of us)

Stars of the Fallen

Forgetting isn't an option. Ever-the destruction of this country begins with people who could care less about the thousands(maybe more) of hardcore terrorists who eat,breathe, and live to wipe America off the planet.

Another Piece of History

Diabetes Gettysburg Address..(thought about it when I read this.)

Four score and four years ago, our Canadian brethren brought forth, on this continent, a new medication, conceived in ingenuity, and dedicated to the novel idea that billions should not die.

Now, we are engaged in a great global war of chronic disease- testing whether, a group of diabetics, we can long endure. (With toes and teeth intact) We are met on a battlefield of that war- the field of research. We have come to dedicate a portion of ourselves, to eradication of that dread disease, that sucked the last breath from their dying lips. It is altogether proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate- we cannot ever do enough. The brave individuals, living and dead, who have struggled (and continue to struggle) consecrate it far beyond our poor power to add or detract. Rather, it is for us, the living, to be dedicated to this last remaining task- that from these pitied dead we take increased devotion toward ending diabetes- that we here resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this planet shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this disease, of, for, and by the people- shall rapidly perish from this earth.

Have a great 4th, everyone. We enjoy so many freedoms, and the "life" (in the life,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) part is a biggie(one that PWD's, prior to insulin, did not have).