Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Sometime ago, I encountered what I thought was a significant admission in one of the newsletters that I read. In a question-and-answer column, the question was posed to the author of the letter, "Can we affect change by writing to our Congressman?" The author of the newsletter answered the inquiry by emphasizing the necessity to take steps to prepare one’s home and family for what is to come. The newsletter author never did address the question regarding the writing to members of Congress.

I thought this omission spoke loudly to a simple fact that I recognized years ago. We cannot expect Congress to do what the people will not do for themselves. Unfortunately, in our current society, the will to affect change—not the hope and change so lauded in a recent political campaign, but the change necessary to restore the American republic to its core Constitutional values.

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