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I’ve been asking myself this a great deal lately. Here we are just 19 days away from the Roar Before the 24 test on 1.8.10 and we’re still one seat shy of a complete team. The race is a mere 41 days away and the car is functional but not prepared for the race and we’re playing chicken with parts & supplier deadlines as well as $100,000 in funds required to operate the car … “Why Bother?” seems like a logical question.
As I was traveling this past Thursday I watched Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko“. In his usual satirical, bombastic manner, Moore shines a spotlight on the disaster that the American health care system has become.
Right or Left, socialist or capitalist, no matter what your political orientation there is no denying that there are in fact some pretty disturbing issues around our health care system today. Stratospheric bills, irresponsible care or no care at all. Even ‘winners’ become losers, stripped of their life savings.
THIS is why we bother.
It will take much more than our meager efforts to change the current scenario, but we can immediately work to impact the lives of others. Of our family, friends and fellow citizens.
Just like George did.
In just a few more days, we’ll celebrate the 233rd anniversary of General George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River. Not being much of a history buff, I recently learned the real story behind the significance of the crossing. Yup, GW did navigate the ice filled river, at night, in a blizzard to surprise and defeat the elite Hessian guards and their German leader Johann Rall. What’s the real story?
- Washington Crossing the Delaware
The real story is that GW’s army of 20,000 had dwindled down to just 2,500 troops … the American revolution was rapidly losing steam and the support of what is now the American public. Washington was focused and determined. He took his remaining, courageous supporters, THIRTY PERCENT of which had NO SHOES but bare, bloody feet wrapped in burlap and marched them NINE miles thru the blizzard to the river. In small boats they crossed the river, surprised the Hessians and rejuvenated the conviction of the American people in the Revolutionary War.
So much so that just two weeks after the Hessian defeat, Washington’s ranks grew back up to over 15,000 fighters.
Fast forward to today, 233 years later, and we’re helping to fight a different kind of “War of Independence” - for the children. For their freedom, for their liberty, for their right to feel safe and secure.
A picture is worth 1,000 words right?
How about humanity at it’s lowest, most disturbing level:
Did you know that Boston, MA is one of the largest trafficking hubs in the United States? Makes you feel sick to your stomach doesn’t it?
Let’s take Mahatma Ghandi at his word and realize that maybe the way these children are being treated isn’t right. It doesn’t reflect our best effort, we are better than this, we can make a difference in the world we live in, just one child at a time.
So my plan?
I can’t change the situation quickly. I can’t turn the Titanic around myself. I can only use my First Amendment Right to speak. I can vote with my feet and work to make a difference. To try to make things better than how I found them. My plan is to take a page from GW’s Christmas march and put my money and effort where my mouth is.
And to make a difference, with your help, by supporting these two organizations: FAAN, the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, working tirelessly to free children with severe allergies through education, awareness and research. And Love146, devoted to abolishing child sex slavery and exploitation, nothing less.
Help me use the power and panache of professional motorsports and its 78 million-person US fan base to affect that change. Spread the word. Help us engage sponsors who can support our racing as the racing, in turn, helps us enable Love146 and FAAN as they wage the war to treat our weakest with the dignity and the respect you and I know, that the greatest society in the history of mankind is capable of.
An opportunity of a lifetime. An opportunity for a life.
Will you join me in that fight? I need your help…..badly.
Loose Bruce
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