Wherever and with whatever it takes

...great grandpa was lucid into his late 90s. -sven10077

Mom is sharp at 93. Dad died at 50. I hope that averages out for me, at worst. So far, I'm more than a decade older than my father got to be. Kind of strange.

Had the honor recently of talking with her and her brother. I've mentioned here that Ed wrote up his memories of sloggiing across wartime Europe, and that he was preparing for the Japanese invasion when the Atomic Gods intervened.

Mom is a lifetime straight-party Republican whose father detested FDR, but she gets her news from Time and NBC. I opened up on a few things I usually don't with her, with Ed there. I usually don't because, it all sounds so tinfoil hat even to those of us who know it's all really happening. Mom turned to her brother and asked, "Have you heard about any of this, Ed?" Ed soberly replied, some of it.

Tyranny always seems to just get more power, Ed observed, then asked me, what hope do you see? Man, coming from him, that tone stunned me.

For the nation, I said, some think we can still restore Constitutionality. Some suggest the states might break apart and form new unions. Or the whole thing may be lost.

But that declaration of independence cannot be put back in the bottle. Humankind will continue to fight the revolutionary war, wherever and with whatever it takes, was the best I could answer.