I have a navy tape left by a submarine officer. I served him cookies
and coffee and I tried to relate so I chatted about "Das Boot". Then
my daughter asked him about social life on a submarine and that was
the end of that particular chapter and she regained my trust that she
was worthy of college/ post graduate degree. So it goes.
On Dec 4, 9:46�am, Doc Holliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No more than the {{{{NIGHT MARE}}}} "for profit" health care issue
> (What the fuck happened to the Hippocratic Oath {{{{IDEA}}}}) �is in
> America "war" is and even bigger profit machine.
>
> America the so-called world philanthropist and policeman.
>
> I give you this:
>
> Washington's Farewell Address 1796
> 1796
>
> Friends and Citizens:
>
> The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive
> government of the United States being not far distant, and the time
> actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating
> the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears
> to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct
> expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the
> resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number
> of those out of whom a choice is to be made.
>
> I beg you, at the same time, to do me the justice to be assured that
> this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the
> considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful
> citizen to his country; and that in withdrawing the tender of service,
> which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no
> diminution of zeal for your future interest, no deficiency of grateful
> respect for your past kindness, but am supported by a full conviction
> that the step is compatible with both.
>
> The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which
> your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of
> inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for what
> appeared to be your desire. I constantly hoped that it would have been
> much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I was not at
> liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement from which I had
> been reluctantly drawn. The strength of my inclination to do this,
> previous to the last election, had even led to the preparation of an
> address to declare it to you; but mature reflection on the then
> perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with foreign nations,
> and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my confidence,
> impelled me to abandon the idea.
>
> I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as
> internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible
> with the sentiment of duty or propriety, and am persuaded, whatever
> partiality may be retained for my services, that, in the present
> circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove my determination
> to retire.
>
> The impressions with which I first undertook the arduous trust were
> explained on the proper occasion. In the discharge of this trust, I
> will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards
> the organization and administration of the government the best
> exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not
> unconscious in the outset of the inferiority of my qualifications,
> experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others,
> has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day
> the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the
> shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
> Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my
> services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that,
> while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene,
> patriotism does not forbid it.
>
> In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the
> career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the
> deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my
> beloved country for the many honors it has conferred upon me; still
> more for the steadfast confidence with which it has supported me; and
> for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my
> inviolable attachment, by services faithful and persevering, though in
> usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our
> country from these services, let it always be remembered to your
> praise, and as an instructive example in our annals, that under
> circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were
> liable to mislead, amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes
> of fortune often discouraging, in situations in which not unfrequently
> want of success has countenanced the spirit of criticism, the
> constancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts, and a
> guarantee of the plans by which they were effected. Profoundly
> penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave, as a
> strong incitement to unceasing vows that heaven may continue to you
> the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly
> affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the
> work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained; that its
> administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and
> virtue; that, in fine, the happiness of the people of these States,
> under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a
> preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to
> them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and
> adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
>
> Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare,
> which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger,
> natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present,
> to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your
> frequent review, some sentiments which are the result of much
> reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me
> all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people. These
> will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in
> them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly
> have no personal motive to bias his counsel. Nor can I forget, as an
> encouragement to it, your indulgent reception of my sentiments on a
> former and not dissimilar occasion.
>
> Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your
> hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm
> the attachment.
>
> The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now
> dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice
> of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home,
> your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very
> liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that,
> from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be
> taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction
> of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against
> which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most
> constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously)
> directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate
> the immense value of your national union to your collective and
> individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and
> immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak
> of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity;
> watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing
> whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be
> abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every
> attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to
> enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
>
> For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens,
> by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to
> concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to
> you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of
> patriotism more than any appellation derived from local
> discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same
> religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a
> common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and
> liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts
> of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.
>
> But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves
> to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more
> immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds
> the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the
> union of the whole.
>
> The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by
> the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the
> latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial
> enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The
> South, in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North,
> sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand. Turning partly into
> its own channels the seamen of the North, it finds its particular
> navigation invigorated; and, while it contributes, in different ways,
> to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation,
> it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength, to which
> itself is unequally adapted. The East, in a like intercourse with the
> West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior
> communications by land and water, will more and more find a valuable
> vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad, or manufactures
> at home. The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its
> growth and comfort, and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence,
> it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets
> for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future
> maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an
> indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by
> which the ...
>
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