Think About it -- Do Your Share

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Carl Chinn

Jan 18, 2025

Every 4 years America gets a reset. At 12:00 noon, Eastern time on Monday, January 20^th, Donald J Trump will become the 47^th President of the United States. For the 47^th time in America’s history, some will be happy about that and some will not.

Though I don’t vote 100% on the moral leadership scale of a President, it is a pretty big deal to me and to many. Our nation has been slipping dangerously into a dishonorable moral status for years. It has divided our nation.

It will not be easy for any President to steer this ship and maintain our distinction as The United States. It seems at times, the only thing we are united about is our disunity.

I hear many say our disunity is the worst it has ever been. It’s bad, I agree. I do not agree it has reached a level as intense as during the Civil War. More Americans were killed in the Civil War than were killed in WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam combined. All in 4 years and 1 ½ months. The anger of both sides didn’t just stop with Lee’s surrender either.

On March 4^th, 1869, Ulysses S. Grant took office as the 18^th President of the United States. At the end of his inaugural address he stated,

In conclusion, I would ask patient forbearance one towards another throughout the land, and a determined effort on the part of every citizen to do his share towards cementing a happy Union, and I ask the prayer of the nation to Almighty God in behalf of this consummation.[i]

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Soon after Trump was elected as POTUS 47, I heard a political leader on a news program urging all people who did not vote for Trump to let their families who did vote for him know, they would not be joining them for Thanksgiving Dinner.

Make no mistake there are plenty as driven on divisiveness as that woman I watched on the news. Some of them are coming for those they see as the enemy. The church is a target.

Do your share to unite as Grant described. But be ready, willing and able to protect when anger comes against the innocent in your care.

[i] Inaugural address of Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, March 4, 1869, J82.C1 G72 1869, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University Libraries

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