 Went to the Doctor today - I will get some PT over the next month and probably be deemed as good as I am going to get (that's a good thing) when I go back in May.
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I have recently heard tales of corporations mandating that their employees take down flags and other patriotic materials that they began displaying on their desks as a result of the attacks on September 11th. I know of condo associations that do not allow residents to fly a flag outside of their homes. In a time when the country is reeling from the loss of lives and destruction resulting from the acts of terrorism the nation watched, there has never been a better time to display the flag. It is a symbol of strength, a symbol of freedom and a symbol of hope. Francis Scott Key said it best. "... And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!"
During a tragedy of this magnitude the country needs to have a symbol to look to. Regardless of politics, the American flag is a steadfast symbol of all that we as a country believe in, a symbol that masses through the last 225 years have been willing to fight for and give their lives for. I, like many people in the area, have been searching for a flag. The fact that I have been unable to locate one speaks volumes for the people of this country. Instead of prohibiting flags, each and every business, association, and neighbor should be promoting it. Let the terrorists see that when our nation is threatened, Americans band together and show our true colors. Leigh Michele Trimaldi In light of the recent terrorist attacks I wanted to share a letter to the editor I wrote in 2001
Tuesday, September 25, 2001 Page: 10A I have recently heard tales of corporations mandating that employees take down flags and other patriotic materials that they began displaying on their desks as a result of the attacks on Sept. 11. I know of condo associations that do not allow residents to fly a flag outside of their homes. In a time when the country is reeling from the loss of lives and destruction resulting from the acts of terrorism the nation watched, there has never been a better time to display the flag. It is a symbol of strength, a symbol of freedom and a symbol of hope. During a tragedy of this magnitude the country needs to have a symbol to look to. Regardless of politics, the American flag is a steadfast symbol of all that we, as a country, believe in, a symbol that masses through the last 225 years have been willing to fight for and give their lives for. I, like many people in the area, have been searching for a flag. The fact that I have been unable to locate one speaks volumes for the people of this country. Instead of prohibiting flags, each and every business, association, and neighbor should be promoting it. Let the terrorists see that when our nation is threatened, Americans band together and show our true colors. Leigh Michele Trimaldi The past two nights I've had dreams of the dead. My grandmother my uncle my best friend and Elizabeth,my mother was with them. When I woke this morning I was filled with curiosity as to what these dreams meant. In the dream my grandmother had asked me to do something. This post is the result My mother and I have never had a very good relationship. And have not spoken for about the last 4 1/2 years. But that's not what the dream was about I was finally given understanding into why our relationship has been the way it has, or at least for me some sense of why it is what it is. When I was two my mother had been pregnant with twin boys. She delivered one dead baby in the toilet one night and was taken to the hospital to deliver the other one also dead. I know this had a traumatic effect on her. As a two-I did not understand what was going on. I have a vivid recollection of my mother sleeping on a cot in the living room and that's pretty much all. I know that she had guilt over the loss of the boys, who never were given any names my father Fronco told her that she had killed his sons. Two years after she was pregnant with my brother Tony, and 19 months after that she gave birth to my brother Todd. They were the boys who lived. As I woke today from my visitors, I wonder if this distance was because she blamed me for the loss of the twins. She had been put on bed rest, but there I was a toddler who around the same time had fallen and split open my chin needing stitches. How well could you rest? Maybe she picked me up India felt something went wrong? I don't know. According to my Grandmother my mother never showed emotion, except one day at Doctor Lake's office. She got her to cry and she sobbed for hours. I have always wondered why the twins were never given names. Maybe it's because if they didn't have names then they were not real, and maybe that's how she coped. I am just speculating. I know Fronco was horrible through out.... Well honestly ever since I have known him. These dreams make me wonder if they were for a purpose to finally give me some closure on why there has always been this distance between me and my mother. People have always wondered why we were not close especially since I was the oldest and only girl. Maybe after the miscarriages she felt if she loved me I would die too. Maybe she felt if I had not been around the twins would not have died. Maybe we were playing and I hit her belly and something happened. I don't know. What I do know is that now at least I understand why we have never had a good relationship and while I still believe that we are healthier apart, I can let go of the hurt. I have to take a moment to THANK YOU ALL! I was amazed when I reviewed the website stats and saw that www.leighmichele.net has had guests from 47 different countries.
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