Dan Groat

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place.

Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.

A hopeful journey is more important than the destination.

Human thought and human caring go on in one brain and one heart at a time. Groups are necessary. Regulations are necessary. Government, I would hope limited government, is necessary. But it all starts with the individual. Everything that is accomplished starts with one person, even if the group steps in and helps; it__ still one brain and one heart at a time.

People don__ die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.

How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn__ start for reasons we__e too devious to tell the truth about? It__ way too easy for governments to spend other people__ blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.

I don__ know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician__ job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we__e dumb and it__ to their advantage to keep us that way.

I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.

There is no end to the hatred in men, but there is an end to the hatred in a man. If your hatred is just, and deeds will get you to the end of it, then go and do what must be done.

We learn to love when we__e young. If we learn hating better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else.