Lest We Forget…

Polite Reminders of Important Things.

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Closings

Lest we forget…
More Americans died of COVID than in all American wars, foreign and domestic combined.

Lest we forget…
Our Declaration of Independence commits us to protect the inherent rights of all, not the inherited rights of some.

Lest we forget…
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were undocumented refugees seeking asylum in Egypt.

Lest we forget…
In 1994, Ukraine gave up the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for assurances of its territorial integrity from the U.S. and others, including Russia.

Lest we forget…
Cruelty is evil. Celebrated cruelty is worse.

Lest we forget…
Over 21 years, American generosity of less than 2 cents per $1,000 of U.S. income allowed USAID to save 93 million lives, many of them children.

Lest we forget…
Within living memory, over 400,000 Americans died in the world war against authoritarian, racial nationalism.

Lest we forget…
Penicillin was just a curiosity for years after discovery, until university researchers made it effective and practical, saving hundreds of millions of lives.

Lest we forget…
45,000 American soldiers died of pneumonia in World War I. 20 years later, university-developed antibiotics cut the pneumonia death rate by 99%.

Lest we forget…
40% of U.S. Nobel Prize winners since 2000 are immigrants. Immigrant Americans are nearly 3 times more likely Nobel winners than are native Americans.

Lest we forget…
The world's 3,000 billionaires, worth $16 trillion, gained $2 trillion more in 2024. The very rich get very much richer.

Lest we forget…
Thousands of Americans died from illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade.

Lest we forget…
Of the dozen scientists who planned and led development of the atom bomb that ended World War II, most were recent immigrants.

Lest we forget…
Louie Pasteur is famous for a reason.

Lest we forget…
Anne Frank’s U.S. visa was not rejected, but backlogged for years and never processed.

Lest we forget…
George Washington stepped down from office to limit the powers of the presidency.

Lest we forget…
Every year since 2000, overall homicide rates have been higher in red states than in blue states.

Lest we forget…
Within living memory, 50 million people died in the world war against authoritarianism and racial nationalism.

Lest we forget…
'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,…’ *

Personal — What about your own?

Lest we forget…
Without recent, university science I would have already died twice.

Lest we forget…
One week after returning from war, my Uncle Charles died from polio — the vaccine was 2½ years too late for him.

Lest we forget…
Being in three high-risk groups and having had COVID twice, I am probably alive because of an mRNA vaccine.

Lest we forget…
My wife’s grandmother died at age 28, leaving 4 young children, because the flu vaccine was yet to come.

Lest we forget…
As a toddler, my friend’s brother contracted measles, just before a vaccine was available. He lived to be a teenager, but never again had the mental power to sit up, eat, or drink.

* Don’t blame me, blame Jefferson that women are not mentioned.
 

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