Reflections of An Uncommon Common Man

   When the Southern Democrats fired at Fort Sumter on the morning of April 12, 1861 they started a war that would last 4 long years and claim the lives of 750,000 soldiers which was over two percent of the American population at the time. History has shown that they chose to fight over an issue that was immoral. The issue was slavery and for that reason they were on the wrong side of history. Contrary to what many people think, the Southern Democrats were fighting to protect and expand the institution of slavery. They were unable to accept the results of the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln. Much like the Democrats have been unable to accept the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and made sure that he wouldn't be reelected in 2020. The Democrats are a death cult. The centerpiece of their political platform in 1860 was slavery and the centerpiece today is the mass murder of unborn children. The same principle undergirds both. The devaluation of human life. To them a slave was not who

 On December 15, 2023 my wife fell in our ditch while trying to get the mail. Without realizing it she somehow ruptured her liver and was bleeding internally. We did not realize how seriously injured she was until I found her lying on our bedroom floor very early on Monday morning the 18th. I called 911 and had her sent by ambulance to Vanderbilt University hospital ER which in my view is one of the best hospitals in the country. They rushed her into surgery and afterwards we were told that her chances of survival was virtually zero but they promised that they would do everything in their power to save her life and they held to their promise. By God's grace and some very professional doctors and medical staff in the trauma unit she survived. She has progressed so well that she is now in the Vanderbilt Stallworth rehabilitation facility and is slated to go home soon. One night as I boarded an elevator I noticed a D.E.I. sign. D.E.I. stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. I was