dear president obama

Dear President Obama,

 

Thank you for your moving speech at the memorial in Tucson. 

Thank you for pointing out that together we must bend our efforts to rebuild, rather than tear apart, our Great Nation. 

Thank you for challenging us to live up to the dreams and expectations of our children. 

Mister President, your words are moving indeed.  But as you stand before the audience your words are only as good as your willingness to now do as you challenge us to do.  Put them to action.  And as you challenge us to act upon our words you stand in front of a Landscape strewn with bodies, so many of them innocent men, women and children, victims of a senseless illegal war. 

As your words ring out across the world you stand before a broken nation that is draining away the very support systems that would give strength to what you say. 

So Mister President, are you willing to put action to your own words?  Are you now willing to step up and lead this broken nation?  Are you willing to end the suffering in our illegal wars?  Can you call home the destroyers of life and turn them into builders of hope and peace?  Can you turn swords into plow shares? 

Please Mister Obama, please lead us into a new world of peace. 

 

Citizen Carl Jarvis, an American Patriot