What I'm Thankful For...

My husband, Mike, asked me to forward a copy of this to the lists I felt
were most important.

What am I thankful for this year??:

Lots *this year*--

I am thankful for a family whom loves me, even though many of them haven't
seen me in a while.

I am thankful for a Army that values my worth and placed me
back on active duty and for those leaders that see and values my worth by
giving me challenging and important tasks...even those I don't like
doing....and rewarding me with good words and better pieces of paper which
I can take home.

I am thankful for the hundreds of my fellow Scouters whom share their
lives, aspirations and opinions (good and bad) with me via the Scouts-l
list and through their personal email with me. These people are not only
good Scouters, they are my friends and
neighbors in a world which seem not to care about each other anymore, but
only themselves and what they can gain for themselves from others.

I am thankful for the United States, where I can live, travel and eat any
time I like without the restrictions or fear that are present in many other
nations.

I am also thankful for our freedoms and with that, our responsibilities to
our faith, our community and nation, and to each other.

I am also thankful for children...my three in particular and those many
others in general....for they are the ones which will see and
live out many of the things I have done in my life and which others have
done. I pray that they will be given the tools to further straighten out
and move this world forward by.

I am also thankful for other's children because one of those children will
become our child through adoption, and I pray that her mother understands
that she is not giving away a child, throwing her away for the benefit of
easy living or for money, but rather giving me and my wife a chance to
raise her, nurture her and take care of her so
that she too can become a productive member of society and perhaps the next
Bill Gates or Ross Perot; the next Jackie Joyner-Kersey or Patricia
Schoeder; or probably (in Kailey's case) the next Rosie O'Donnell or
Whitney Houston or Vanessa Williams.

I am thankful to be alive, a child of my faith in God, a friend to all and
a brother to all other Scouts and Scouters, a father, a teacher, a coach,
and a partner to Jessica Walton.

I am thankful for those lives that I interact with even in the smallest of
ways, through a smile or a "Guten Morgen" (good morning).

I am thankful for living in Germany, for my work as a Public Affairs/Signal
Officer and for my ability to do many
tasks at the same time.

This year especially, I am thankful for the food which I will eat on
Thanksgiving Day with other members of my Reserve unit and with our German
friends; for I know that not too far south from here, there are many people
literally dying because they have no food, no water nor no way to reach
those essentials of life unless they walk until their unshoed feet bleed
and until they cannot walk or be carried any more.

Finally, I am thankful for electronic mail, the most valuable of my
personal tools to keep me in touch with those I work for and with, in touch
with my beautiful worry-wart of a wife and her super mother, with my
children many miles away from their father, and with lots of old friends
and new friends, many of which I have never met face-to-face....and perhaps
never will. People say that electronic mail is
impersonal, impolite and impractical in a world that stresses personal
interaction and sharing of ideas. I see it the other way, as a way that
even the most innermost thoughts and opinions can be shared without fear; a
way that anyone can reach you and you
can reach them without the "hold", "busy" or "not home" signals; a
resource...and that's what it is, a resource...that our youngest people can
use as well as our oldest people can utilize. It is extremely polite....it
waits for you to finish other business before you get to it and it's never
"butting in" on your conversations or "bogarting" your time.

For all of those things, I am *very grateful* and *very thankful*

Major Mike
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Jessica A. Walton ----->--->-<{@
Nothing is impossible, if you trust in God and NEVER give up!!
Copyright (c) 1996 by Jessica A. Walton
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