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Posted by Buck (104.220.136.19) on 11:14:17 08/06/26
In Reply to: I'll say......... posted by Francoise Musgrove
One time many years ago, when my mom was still alive and she was living in Colorado Springs, we went to the Flying W Ranch for an amazing experience of a cowboy band show while eating steak and beans, wagon style. Such an amazing experience, I still think about it often. On the back of the menu they had this creed, and it brings me to tears each time I read it and it is exactly how I feel:
By Dean Alfange
From The Flying W Ranch, Colorado Springs, CO
" I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon. I seek to develop whatever talents God gave me not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say This, with God s help, I have done. All this is what it means to be an American."
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