Alzheimer’s. Dementia. The words strike fear in almost everyone over the age of 60. Especially those of us who, as grown children, have had to watch a family member suffer through it. So damn depressing. Or, as we grow older, we see friends lose their ability to communicate, to think, to form a simple sentence, and we wonder, is that going to be my fate as well?
Every time I drive by the Dustin Michael Sekula Memorial Library in Edinburg, I’m reminded of what a terrible loss his death meant for his family, friends, this community when he died as a Marine in Iraq in April of 2004, at the very young age of 18.
A friend texted me the other day that in his opinion, both Biden and Trump are (delete)tards. The only difference, he wrote, is that “Trump’s policies are better.”
We’ve reached the point in which campaigners or their supporters have begun placing ads on television attacking, berating, or belittling their opponents.
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