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By Janet Evans
Saturday, Sep 27 2008, 07:05 AM
Oh, my…mommy needs a cigarette break!
Raising baby is a lonely job…all decked out in this house dress with no place to go. The house needs to be spotless, dinner needs to be in the oven and on the table at five sharp, I need to look glamorous, and baby needs to behave. What’s a mommy to do?
Have another Marlboro…that’s what.
Sound familiar?
Well, I made that up...but Marlboro evidently marketed to women back in the 50s...before they targeted men. Just look at those sweet baby faces. What mom wouldn't want to buy those cigarettes?
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jun 22 2008, 07:30 PM
Yesterday an article by two Associated Press writers, Alan Fram and Eileen Putman was posted titled,
Everything seemingly is spinning out of control. É
I began reading this article thinking it was going to be some usual lefty spin that would set me off. But I found it to be oh, so much more than that. I found it to be an article of interest to all Americans; no matter what political viewpoint you have. I found it to be of interest to all Americans who have pride in themselves and their country. You see, I find Fram and Putman to have written an article that is on the verge of being un-American.
The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in the American psyche is under assault. Eroding it is a dour powerlessness that is chipping away at the country's sturdy conviction that destiny can be commanded with sheer courage and perseverance.
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Why the vulnerability? After all, this is the 21st century, not a more primitive past when little in life was assured. Surely people know how to fix problems now. Maybe. And maybe this is what the 21st century will be about — a great unraveling of some things long taken for granted.
Oh, please, Fram and Putman, don’t tell us, the American people, that we have lost the spirit that we have had as American people since the first foot touched soil here. We are a compassionate country and we will come to the aide of each other when we are down. We are a country of democracy, we can vote for whomever we choose. We are always able to improve are lives if we choose to do so…it’s our choice…we still live in the land of opportunity, don’t we? That has not changed.
These authors can only see in front of them and do not really know the people of America. They could not have lived during the Great Depression, or fought during World War I or II. They could not have "Gone West, young man," or traveled here as an immigrant all alone back in the 1800s, or broke their backs working hard as slaves on a plantation in the South.
What do they know about Americans?
They think we have lost our spirit.
They are wrong.
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Apr 29 2008, 06:40 AM
 Iconic photo of Los Angeles Dodger Rick Monday pulling the American flag away from
protesters who were about to burn the flag in protest of the Vietnam War.
On April 25, 1976, during a game at Dodger Stadium, two protesters, a man and his son, ran into the outfield and tried to set fire to an American flag they had brought with them.
Rick Monday, then playing with the Cubs, noticed they had placed the flag on the ground and were fumbling with matches and lighter fluid; he then dashed over and grabbed the flag off the ground to thunderous cheers.
He handed the flag to Los Angeles pitcher Doug Rau, after which the ballpark police arrested the two intruders.
When he came up to bat in the next half-inning, he got a standing ovation from the crowd and the big message board behind the left-field bleachers in the stadium flashed the message, "RICK MONDAY... YOU MADE A GREAT PLAY..."
He later said, "If you're going to burn the flag, don't do it around me.
I've been to too many veterans' hospitals and seen too many broken bodies of guys who tried to protect it."
I especially like the expression on the face of the "son" protester as the flag is being snatched away.
What a fine father and son activity...
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What can you do to be a "great American?"
Of course your moments won't be caught on camera, and that's not the point.
Just the small things we do in our lives can make the difference between an American and a great one.
It’s something to think about.
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Apr 13 2008, 07:00 PM
If I had the chance to spend the day with someone, living or dead, just a casual, one-on-one day where I could ask anything at all; anything and everything I would want to ask and all would be answered, who would that be?
Well, that is a very difficult question. There are so many great people in history, and horrible villains. Who wouldn’t have questions for Adolph Hitler or Genghis Khan or Jim Jones? How could you not want to sit and speak with Amelia Earhart, Harriet Tubman, Mozart, Einstein, or Abraham Lincoln?
But I would also love to have been able to have had a moment with my grandmother who died the month before I was born or one of those heroes who stormed the cockpit on Flight 93 on 9-11.
Do you know who you would like to speak with?
After much thought, I believe I would like to speak with Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
I think she was just one of the most dignified and mysterious modern day women in my lifetime. I know there are far more important people, but Jackie Kennedy is always on my list. I would have so many who, what, where, why, how did you feel, how did you cope, would you do it again, were you ever happy, where did you find the courage? My list would go on, and on.
Perhaps my reasoning is because she was so private. There is so much we really don't know about her. She was truly an icon.
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