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Shuttle Tragedy and Life

4-Feb-03 What difference can one person make?  People who say they can’t make a difference remind me of what my mother used to say to me in her attempt to keep me from becoming controversial.  She got tired of hearing me be so opinionated and tried to thwart my attempts to speak up to injustice when I was married to a black woman and saw racism, when I see homophobia and when I used to have to argue with people who smoked around my child and in other non-smoking designated areas.  So many people say, “Why bother caring since one person cannot do anything?”  What if MLKJr’s mother said that to him?  Indeed, if only one person would have spoken up and said something about the obviously flawed take-off of the shuttle, perhaps seven amazing people would still be alive and the space program would not be under such scrutiny.  I think I’ve made a huge impression on people with my life choices, particularly my child, and thusly I will be immortalized, as we all should endeavor to be by our thoughts, which we should always reduce to writing, electronic or otherwise (back it up to a permanent medium and put it in a time capsule).  This is why people keep journals and why the activists among us – agnostic or otherwise – are always burdened by the people who think they are incapable of making a difference with their thoughts, their words, their protests, etc.  My web page speaks for me with self-publication, and I hope to have it up in perpetuity.  My decision to go to law school was given incentive by the hypocrisy of the tobacco industry that killed family members.  Fortunately we’ve made a lot of progress in that area, this illegitimate administration (Bushy Jr.) notwithstanding, but the struggle continues, as do many other struggles to better society.