Thoughtful Thursdays, Health Care, and a sense of honor

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Self-worth, a sense of self, and a sense of meaning or purpose, are all closely tied up with both mental and emotional health, as well as another reason that we need a Universal Health Care system that includes full mental health services. These things do not come easily nor quickly, the thorny problems that we think about when looking at reasons to live or die. Reasons to stay, reasons to simply stop, let go, and give up, permanently. Some find inspiration to live in art, or in religion, or in happiness, but what about the longer term view?

It was a tumultuous time when the General spoke these words, as we have again now. 1962 seems to have come again in 2020, and I do not agree with all of his words, but with his sentiment that we have a duty to uphold our commitment to community and to humanity, I will always agree and work toward fulfilling.

Honor, Duty, and … Community:

These are still sacred concepts for me.  Quoting from one of my favorite speeches (The Long Grey Line, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s speech to the Corps of Cadets
at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., May 12, 1962):

“to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past; to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness; the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.”

These words inspired me, as a CAP and Jr. ROTC cadet, to a life of service towards Duty, Honor, and Loyalty to equality for all… Shira

Here is why I am thinking of this topic now, about which I posted originally in April, 12014 H.E. (Holocene Era).

I later added, regarding Community Cooperation, that as Hillary Clinton pointed out, it does indeed take a village, a united sense of purpose, and conviction to give meaning to life, and to our way of life. We should learn to ask why, before we arrive at the twilight of our lives. A newly revived Civilian Conservation Corps would help accomplish that, mingling various classes as mandatory military service once did, but with the goal, now, of building, rather than destroying.

Yassas,   γεια σας!    Salût !  Nos vemos!  Görüşürüz!     ! שָׁלוֹם

Dear Readers, any additional ideas toward learning, especially multiple as part of on-going education and empathy-building, to , ,  & help to achieve freedom for All HumanKind, through learning, teaching, planning, and cooperating? 

1. PublicLibraries,
2. ProBono legal aid and Education,
3. UniversalHealthCare, and
4. good public transport

Shira

Preptober for NaNoWriMo 2020 CE

October, 2020 CE = 12020 HE

About ShiraDestProjectDoBetter

Shira Destinie Jones is founder of #ProjectDoBetter, a long term plan proposal for community building, and a published poet, academic author, and advocate for improving our #PublicDomainInfrastructure. Her other book, Stayed on Freedom's Call, on Black-Jewish Cooperation in DC, is freely available via the Internet Archive. She has organized community events such as film discussions, multi-ethnic song events, and cooperative presentations, and is a native of Washington, DC. She promotes peaceful planning, NVC and the Holocene Calendar, and is also a writer. More information at https://shiradest.wordpress.com/

16 thoughts on “Thoughtful Thursdays, Health Care, and a sense of honor”

    2. The link works for me, though the text is a bit small. These words still ring with irony vis-a-vis my experience at Annapolis:
      ” the soldier above all other people prays for peace”
      My upperclassmen certainly did not…
      😦

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      1. I’m sorry that these ideals which inspired you didn’t match the reality you faced. That is so very disheartening. And disheartening to read as a mere civilian too.

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        1. Indeed. So that is why I am now doing my best to remind us all of these values. Thank you, btw, for being inspired by the General’s speech. It’s nice to have company in enjoying such words.
          I’ve always imagined that line of men and women rising from the nation’s cemeteries in every uniform of the history of the United States: with WACs, WAVES, Tuskegee Airmen, and General Patton’s 761st Tankers especially standing tall.

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        2. No civilian is a “mere civilian” -this was another major sticking point I had with the upperclassmen charged with indoctrinating the plebes (mostly the 2nd classmen, whose official job this is): the military, in the USA, exists to protect the civilian population, first and foremost, and the upper chain of command is entirely civilian, by Constitutional design. It is the civilian population, unlike in the Turkish democracy, which Ataturk designed to have the army as the protector of the Turkish democracy, we ourselves, in our civilian lives, are responsible for the protection of our democracy, and we civilians are thus, in fact, the ones who employ the military. They answer to US.

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          1. This is a deep, profound, and beautiful thought. It really brings meaning to the concept of civilian. I’m going to spend some time reflecting on this

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