Topic: USA

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream....

For five years the Global War on Terrorism has been fought by the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces and the Allied Forces. God Bless them and keep them safe.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

As The Final Option moves into it's sixth year, we once again celebrate another 4th of July. Most of you know that it is at this time, that I scour the Internet for inspirational quotes that I feel are important to remember. This year is no different.

I wish everyone; teammates, friends, and visitors alike, a very happy and safe Fourth of July.

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs-even though checkered by failure
than to take rank with these poor spirits who
neither enjoy much or suffer much. Be wise, they
live in the gray twilight that know not of
victory, nor defeat. Nor true sorrow nor true
love."

- Theodore Roosevelt

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation...