@jmhuckabee I knew your Dad (and Mom) back when you were born, and worked with him at Focus Advertising in Fort Worth. What great examples you have had.
My parents died suddenly in a car accident 25 years ago this year. I was 21, and became a guardian for my little brother and sister (10 and 12 at the time).
I've spoken about the accident and its impact on a couple of podcasts, but it's fresh on my mind as my brother just shared with me a handwritten letter I sent to him at his school. He's kept it with him ever since.
I've transcribed it below; he told me last night that it's helped him many times over the past two decades. Sharing it here in case what I said back then in an attempt to help a little lost boy is of assistance to anyone else.
23 July 2002
To Harry, From Freddie.
1. Don't panic.
2. You have many people watching your back. I am one of them and I am watching it very closely.
3. The accident was nobody's fault. Therefore we cannot legitimately blame anyone for it. We call it an accident for this reason.
4. We cannot bring Mummy and Daddy back – but this has important consequences:
– We need to remember what they taught us.
– We need to behave as they would have wanted us to.
– Because they are not alive, but we are, we owe both ourselves and their memory a duty to live as well and as fully as we possibly can, not to give in, not to give up. Because of the accident we have been given a very special insight into what it means to be alive – to live as fully as we can, to consider others, to work at what we are good at, and work even harder at what is difficult.
Something has been wasted, something has been lost. We must make sure that our lives are not. We shall always regret that Mummy and Daddy are not here – let us not regret anything we do, or know that we had a chance and threw it away.
Whatever happens, I have got your back. Even if I do sometimes hit you with cricket balls.
Run straight, look your foe in the eye, and never back down. Strength and honour!
I love you very much.
My family and I escaped execution in Lebanon because Islam wanted to kill us. My parents were kidnapped by Fatah and were severely mistreated. Our home in Beirut was stolen by Palestinian Muslims. My wife's family escaped Lebanon because Islam wanted to kill them. Her ancestors escaped the Armenian genocide because Islam wanted to kill them. My grandparents escaped Syria because Islam wanted to kill them. My brother-in-law's family escaped Alexandria (Egypt) because Islam wanted to kill them. My family and I are leaving Montreal because Islam wants to kill us (the number of threats that I've received forced me to take a two-year leave from my home university). I'm moving to @olemiss /@umdeclaration to defend American liberties and freedoms from ideological threats. @LibyaLiberty, a vile Islamist who despises Jews, is now "reporting" me to my new institution because I dare criticize Islam. Imagine the chutzpah. I will NEVER stop defending the West from the dangers that it faces. Long live the United States.
THIS SHOULD BE FRONT PAGE NEWS EVERYWHERE
For the second month in a row, NOT A SINGLE migrant was released into our country at the border.
ZERO.
All we needed was a new President!
If John Roberts is going to spend his time issuing impotent press releases against Trump, as if he’s an MSNBC host or a Democrat congressional candidate, instead of doing his actual job of protecting the rule of law from lawless inferior court judges, then he is going to end up doing far more damage to the Court than anything a lone politician is capable of.
All of our problems with the judiciary right now stem from a refusal of judges to understand their actual roles in government. James Boasberg is not the president, and John Roberts is not a member of Congress.
The sooner they are made to understand this, the better it will be—both for them and the country.
Those complaining about Elon being unelected are hypocrites.
They said nothing about unelected Fauci destroying our lives.
They said nothing about unelected Lois Learner using the IRS to target conservatives.
They said nothing about federal reserve policies stoking inflation.
The unelected federal reserve maintained that inflation was transitory and allowed very low interest rates to remain in place for such a long time that it increased inflation, impacting the pocketbooks of all Americans.
“Elon Musk has your Social Security Number”
And so what if he does?
He’s worth $400 billion dollars.
Do they think he’s going to use it to take a loan out or something?
How STUPID are these people?