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Ron Ewart
Do You See That Bright Star?...That’s America
April 9, 2010

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas." – Henry Ford

Henry Ford was the embodiment of the American free spirit. Fortunately, he materialized on the American scene before America became the country of "I can't" or, "you'd better not". Many like Ford have gone before him and many more will follow him, because that bright star that is America is a breeding ground for new bright stars, almost every day.

A star is born in our infinite universe as the result of two opposing forces, gravity and nuclear energy. A whirling ball of hydrogen gas starts to condense, as gravity forces the hydrogen atoms ever closer together. As gravity increases the density of the hydrogen, the friction of the atoms crashing into each other, starts to create immense heat. Finally, the heat rises to the point that atoms of hydrogen are fused into atoms of helium at an un-imaginable rate. At the point of fusion, (critical mass) massive amounts of energy radiate into the void...and a star is born.

The gravity of the infant star reaches out its tentacles into the disc shape of gas that surrounds the star, where the accretion of gas and rock has been condensed into planets. The planets then begin their journey around the mother star in the grip of her gravity, until the mother star finally writhes in the death throes of its red giant and white dwarf phases. At that point the inner planets are consumed by their mother and the universe won't take a single notice of the event, as stars are dying and being born every second, somewhere in the cosmos.

Some balls of hydrogen gas are so immense they create super stars, many times the size of our Sun. As the nuclear forces start to decline, at the end of the star's normal nuclear life, the force of gravity begins to crunch the star like a vice. At a certain point, the rising nuclear forces resulting from the increasing gravity, explodes the star in a super nova, sending the expanding gas out into space at 600,000 miles per hour, annihilating anything and everything in its path. The visible light from the super nova can be seen from billions of light years away, and billions of years back in time. The light from the super nova can be many times brighter than the light from all the stars in the galaxy, in which the super nova star resides.

America too was born out of two opposing forces, government oppression and the insatiable and unstoppable human desire for freedom. As the "heat" began to rise from the tightening grip of King George the III on the colonialists, the inhabitants of this new land on a new continent, reached critical mass and a unique new country was born out of revolution, a country that is the brightest star of any country that ever formed on this third planet from our mother star, the Sun. America was and is the super nova of all other countries and will remain so, if her light of liberty is not snuffed out by apathy, neglect, in-attention and treachery and treason from within.

The American people are the energy that keeps the star of America shining brightly and they radiate her message of freedom into the depths of depravity, despair, corruption and savagery that exist in so many other parts of our world. Our technology, industriousness, creativity, production and generosity reaches out and touches almost every other person on the planet. That energy is the product of living under the umbrella of liberty. That umbrella of liberty has its foundation in our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.

But serious cracks are forming in America's foundation and serious efforts are needed to shore up those cracks. If the cracks are allowed to expand, at a certain point, no amount of effort will be able to fill them, the foundation will collapse and a free America will be no more.

When you look up at the symbol of our freedom, our American flag, remember, you and the millions of other freedom-loving Americans, are the only ones that can keep that flag flying high and the star of America shining bright, for as long as humans remain on this earth. We have a vicious enemy within our ranks, that is doing everything in its power to put that light out. Do not let the bright star of America steadily decline in brilliance, until it is extinguished forever.