Supreme court Arrogance…

You know it is with great respect that men and women of all ages salute the Flag of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, for many years it has been what has kept this nation free.

We look back into the Unre­vised His­tor­i­cal nature of the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence and we see not only those men who gave their lives in ser­vice to this great nation but also the fam­i­lies that sac­ri­ficed pre­cious time with fathers and moth­ers so that so many of us might be free to pur­sue lib­er­ty and hap­pi­ness.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes nec­es­sary for one peo­ple to dis­solve the polit­i­cal bands which have con­nect­ed them with anoth­er, and to assume among the pow­ers of the earth, the sep­a­rate and equal sta­tion to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God enti­tle them, a decent respect to the opin­ions of mankind requires that they should declare the caus­es which impel them to the sep­a­ra­tion.

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My Father was one of those men and he gave deeply to this Nation, I lost him in 2008 not to War as we all thought the case would be nor was it a case of sick­ness but to the lack of ade­quate, med­ical care in rur­al Amer­i­ca, I know he loved the coun­try and that was his life, he lived it with no fears and he was a great man but he was also a hero a man from Arkansas that served God and Coun­try to the exclu­sion of every­thing else his mind was unal­tered and with this have many men been saved.

Med­ical care in this nation is woe­ful­ly under staffed, often you can walk into an emer­gency room in the rur­al areas of this nation and find equip­ment that is too old and all but impo­tent for the most basic of med­ical ser­vices.

My father was a Hero, both to this nation and his fam­i­ly, he lost his life not on the bat­tle field, but in an emer­gency room that did not have the prop­er equip­ment nec­es­sary to save his life, Though at the time we did not real­ize that it was already too late, when I learned that he was delayed for one hour in this small town while they wait­ed for an ambu­lance to take him to a larg­er hos­pi­tal, that one hour they often call the gold­en hour.

[kc_heading_pac_11_headline_6 size=“45” color=“#FC0” ]The Gold­en Hour[/kc_heading_pac_11_headline_6]

The gold­en hour refers to a time peri­od last­ing from a few min­utes to sev­er­al hours fol­low­ing trau­mat­ic injury being sus­tained by a casu­al­ty, dur­ing which there is the high­est like­li­hood that prompt med­ical treat­ment will pre­vent death. 

It has been well estab­lished that the patien­t’s chances of sur­vival are great­est if they receive care with­in a short peri­od of time after an injury.

My father flew into the jun­gles of Viet­nam and risked his life for the free­dom and his love of this nation.

Often He risked his life to bring valu­able intel­li­gence that saved the lives of men in the bat­tle­field, yet when he need­ed a life flight to save his life, all they could man­age was an ambu­lance, dur­ing which time he suf­fered con­tin­ued med­ical dam­age to his heart, it was pre­ventable.

I find it amaz­ing that in a day and age of health care reform and the unique­ness that is this great Amer­i­ca that my father lost his life because of a lack of care in a world that would not be free if not for men like my father.

I feel strong­ly that med­ical equip­ment needs to be in the hands of those that can make use of it includ­ing rur­al areas where resources are not as great as they are in larg­er areas.