Welcome aboard, Kay!

I read your comments and have similar feelings.

As patriotic genealogists and family historians, we seem to have a greater 
understanding and respect for what our forefathers fought valiantly for!

Margaret Kerr Beckwith
Elkins, West Virginia


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kay" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:26 PM
Subject: [VA-ROOTS] New List Member


I am a new member to this list and after reading the post from Mr.
Richards I was curious enough to check the Archives to see what it was all 
about.  I see there was, in my opinion, a serious "rush to judgment" in as 
much as the remark someone made about Obama wearing his hat backwards.  I 
too noticed this on TV and I must admit that I wished that our President 
elect would act a bit MORE presidential.  Wishing he looked more 
presidential even on a beach somewhere is not in the least a racial comment. 
I returned from Europe last week where I spent Christmas and New Years.  I 
eventually became quite annoyed when European friends and just ordinary 
people I met on a bus or a taxi driver(they dearly love to talk to 
Americans) ask me If I liked having a President who "thought" he was an 
arrogant rock star or some center fold model (their words - not mine).  I 
truly respect the office of the United States President and have always 
refrained from making negative remarks no matter which party he represents. 
I pray for his success as do the rest of you on this list.  Calling someone 
a Racist without even knowing this person, is a Racist of the highest degree 
and was used a lot during the battle for the presidency.  It seemed everyone 
was scared to death of saying a negative thing about Obama for fear they 
would be labeled a "Racist".

  'Nuff said - don't want to start another wave of negative comments.

My family roots run deep in Virginia as do they in the New England area.  I 
have enough DAR Patriots and others who have fought for our freedom to know 
how much we have to loose if we forget WHO we are as Patriotic Americans and 
remember why we are a free society and what it is going to take to remain a 
Free Society.   The men who wrote our Constitution had to have had an 
insight as to what we Americans were going to eventually face because we 
became complacent and lazy - totally forgetting that our cost for freedom 
was a dear price that our military, through the years, have paid....  These 
men are now shifting nervously in their graves wondering if their ultimate 
sacrifice has all been for naught.

I wish the best 2009 for everyone on this list and hope I may ask your 
advise or perhaps help me in the near future to run down some of my Virginia 
roots.

signed- another multi-cultural American

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