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Created on ... May 06, 2001
written by
Virginia Arlene Heard
To live upon the earth is a honorable, wonderful, and miraculous thing. We each should make the most of it with each passing day. It is a gift from God that is not to be taken lightly. Often we forget those who have trodden the dusty and dangerous roads of history. We relegate them to the pages of dusty books and forgotten overgrown graveyards, just as a name and not as an individual. We do them a disservice. Upon birth they began a course, a singular course that took them to where they last breathed, and we went on with our lives from there. Although so many are quickly forgotten, with only a glance, we suddenly see their footprints behind us. If it weren�t for the past and the hardships they endured where, would we be today?
It is not for us to forget, but to remember their lives, the strength with which they faced the saddest of sorrows and the most violent of opponents. Whether on fields of battle of War or on the fields they plowed, Through Droughts and Floods, Tornado�s and Fires they persevered and made a life for themselves, and for us. They made mistakes, felt the joy of life and the pain of sorrow, laughed at humor, and some dreamed dreams of greatness. They felt the joy of love, as they looked into the eyes of a spouse, or that indescribable feeling upon hearing the first cry of a child from an open cabin door. Their actions run deeper than chopping trees to build homes, plowing fields to raise food, and defending themselves and their families against attacks from all manners of foes. When illness struck they trudged on for us. We are who they were in some form. And what we do today will effect the future. Whether genetics have granted us their looks (be that good or bad), whether inheritance has brought to us the land they worked, or the clothes they owned, or if from our mouths flow their words and expressions, we are them in some form, and they are us.
We each have a duty for future generations to leave what information we are aware of this is their heritage due them. They want to know about us as we do our forefathers. Speak with our seniors and take notes listen don�t just pass them by. One day they will be gone. We have the technology today to help the future
Virginia Heard
PO Box 1522
Los Lunas, New Mexico 87031
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Created on ... May 06, 2001