Amazing
"And in today already walks tomorrow." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We have piled in to the hotel, exhausted, after a day full of simulated world saving discussions. The fifth graders that I'm chaperoning, my daughter and her friend, have just spent nine hours participating in our state-wide model United Nations conference. They studied the slum situation in Rwanda and other countries and proposed a solution for fixing this epidemic. Fifth graders.
I sat for the last few hours in the Model UN Security Council. As a military wife, this council in the real world discusses matters that greatly impact my life. Today's discussion was terrorism, terrorists returning to their society and nuclear weaponry in the middle east. These are discussions that take place over my morning coffee with my military husband, before our children wake up. The profound nature of these issues ultimately follow him into work. These issues indirectly follow me in to work as well. The resolutions to these issues (created by middle and high schoolers) were well thought out, discussed and written. And in the end, these resolutions were fictitiously passed.
Witnessing this unfold I couldn't help but express how amazing an opportunity this is for our children. What other country allows the replication of resolution creation and peace treaty making by our children? What kind of country invests this time and energy into their youngest of young and helps them to believe that their voice matters? An Amazing Country. Our Amazing Country.
A friend of mine, a retired Soldier, put it all into perspective when I said this country is amazing. Without missing a beat he said, "Amazing enough to die for."
And it is........
Amazing to watch my children grow up in the land of opportunity,
Amazing to watch as the American leaders of tomorrow work all day to resolve some of the worlds hardest issues,
Amazing to know that 1% of this incredible population have sworn to protect and defend these freedoms we enjoy.
America
Amazing
We have piled in to the hotel, exhausted, after a day full of simulated world saving discussions. The fifth graders that I'm chaperoning, my daughter and her friend, have just spent nine hours participating in our state-wide model United Nations conference. They studied the slum situation in Rwanda and other countries and proposed a solution for fixing this epidemic. Fifth graders.
I sat for the last few hours in the Model UN Security Council. As a military wife, this council in the real world discusses matters that greatly impact my life. Today's discussion was terrorism, terrorists returning to their society and nuclear weaponry in the middle east. These are discussions that take place over my morning coffee with my military husband, before our children wake up. The profound nature of these issues ultimately follow him into work. These issues indirectly follow me in to work as well. The resolutions to these issues (created by middle and high schoolers) were well thought out, discussed and written. And in the end, these resolutions were fictitiously passed.
Witnessing this unfold I couldn't help but express how amazing an opportunity this is for our children. What other country allows the replication of resolution creation and peace treaty making by our children? What kind of country invests this time and energy into their youngest of young and helps them to believe that their voice matters? An Amazing Country. Our Amazing Country.
A friend of mine, a retired Soldier, put it all into perspective when I said this country is amazing. Without missing a beat he said, "Amazing enough to die for."
And it is........
Amazing to watch my children grow up in the land of opportunity,
Amazing to watch as the American leaders of tomorrow work all day to resolve some of the worlds hardest issues,
Amazing to know that 1% of this incredible population have sworn to protect and defend these freedoms we enjoy.
America
Amazing
Amen!!!
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