Why Your Savings Lose Value

 How Gold Fixes the Leak

https://youtu.be/vT9XgeCclpU

You just wanted to make some extra money.

Instead, you’re now tracking inflation data, geopolitical conflicts, Fed decisions, and oil prices. You didn’t sign up for this. Nobody did. Yet here you are — refreshing your portfolio at 7am.

So why does modern investing feel like a second job? And more importantly, is there a way out?

Fed’s New Chair Has a Plan. It Won’t Work.

https://youtu.be/QInTdNtSzDU

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By Paul Stramer

In 2024 we started using the new mint in Indiana to stamp and ship our silver rounds, after over 18 years with the previous mint in Utah.

The mint is now experiencing a larger volume of orders and has extended their production schedule up to six to eight weeks for new orders.

 We expect our volume to rise also, and that run has already started.

 Here are some of the things that are changing for the better for you, our customers.

1. The old 500 ounce minimum order is gone. The new minimum order is now 50 ounces. 

2. They will be very competitive in their price structure, and right now we are offering a price plan based on the volume of metal in each order. See below.

These will be shipped by UPS Ground, fully insured.

 We will still be accepting wire transfers, or cashiers checks like always. 

We can only lock an order after we have received the funds. Here is the formula we use to figure your price.

Go to this link on Kitco.com and look up the ask price of silver. 

https://www.kitco.com/price/precious-metals

It's in the first table on that page. 

The mint is closed Friday, through Sunday, so we can't lock an order on those days.

For a 60 oz. to 99 oz. order, take the ask price and add $5.00

For a 100 oz. to 199 oz. order, take the ask price and add $4.50. 

For a 200 oz. to 299 oz. order, take the ask price and add $4.25. 

For a 300 oz. to 999 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.75. 

All orders over 1000 ounces will be $3.50 over spot ask price.

Take that number times the number of ounces (50 or over) and then add $30.00 for each 60 to 99 ounce box for shipping, or for large orders add $50 per 500 ounce box for shipping.

Once we have your funds we will run this same formula to finalize the price with shipping.

Be sure to call us when you are ready to order so we can answer your questions.

When you call I will get your email address and send you the bank info for wire transfers or the mailing info for your payment. You can then reply with your shipping address for UPS.

If you have any questions here is my contact info.

Office phone  406 889 3183  8 AM to 2 PM and 4PM to 6 PM weekdays.

Cell  406 253 4257  when I am not in the office. Try the Office line first.

pstramer@gmail.com   or  pstramer@eurekadsl.net

Thanks for your support over the years.  We are now open and taking orders.

Paul Stramer   S.A.G.

International Public Notice: Blood Treaties Invoked

 By Anna Von Reitz

Before there were written treaties, before there were conventions, before there were Conferences of the Parties, before there were separate recognized jurisdictions, before there were Commercial Principals, before there was a City of Rome, or a Roman Empire, before there was ever a Roman Catholic Church, before there was a Persian Empire, before the corrupt concept of Legal Fiction, before Boards of Governors, before Monarchs crowned by Popes, before any Sanhedrin, before any Congress, before any Compact, before flags flew from the battlements of Troy, before Carthage, before the Pharaohs, the people of this Earth enacted Blood Treaties among their nations by marriage and by the holy covenant embodied by their children, proclaimed their peace unto all generations. 

The Blood Treaties are hereby invoked and their power is extended now and forever over all jurisdictions, and over all other forms of law save only the Law of Gratitude, the Law of Love, and the Law of One; this invocation stands over all geographic, sea-borne, and air-borne places, estates and locations, over all coordinates on, in and above the Earth and in the Cosmic dimensions and spatial territories ruled by the Galactic Powers. These treaties provide paramount and supreme governance over the affairs and assets of the angelic nations and Mankind and allied humanoids throughout the Milky Way and Central Galaxy, insofar as our unions are in evidence in our individual DNA records, mitochondria, and blood.  

The Blood Treaties are older than all other treaties of men or angels or any derivative nations; they rest on more material and holy grounds and contain more certain proofs of accord and brotherhood.   

Therefore let no one claim greater affiliation or obligation established by any means that is imagined, submitted to paper or carved upon a rock or inscribed in clay, for no claim is greater than the bond written by our blood and evident in our children.  

By the Most Ancient Order, by the Glory of Heaven, this stands and is true before all Beings in all times and places.  The Blood Treaties both predate and supersede all lesser treaties, contracts, and agreements, in the same way that the Alpha stands with the Omega.  

For once and forever we are bound by love. 

Issued by: 

The Breath Before the Word: Ana

Anna Maria Wilhelmina Hanna Sophia Riezinger - von Reitzensten von Lettow-Vorbeck, wife of Guillaume de Armentrois, Mother of Eric Jon Belle Cher, also known as Alaric de Guillaume de Armentrois. 

"Loyal unto Death", "Never Defeated in Battle". 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

May 24th 2026

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Addendum 3 to Our Claim for All Tartarian, Germanic, and Haplo Group X Assets Continued

 By Anna Von Reitz

Additional evidence of genocide of the Tartarian Empire and people -- and what the Fallen stole from all humanity: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcMvic6UoBg&t=68s    -- An Archeologist derived the actual time line. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHXIfFJcNpg  -- Our people built all this and were murdered by the Fallen, genocided. 

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On behalf of all the European Indigenous and North American Indigenous Clans and Nations Allied to the Belle Chers.  

On behalf of all those genocided by the British Empire and its Commercial Affiliates.  

Anna Maria Wilhelmina Hanna Sophia Riezinger - von Reitzensten von Lettow-Vorbeck, wife of Guillaume de Armentrois, Mother of Eric Jon Belle Cher, also known as Alaric de Guillaume de Armentrois. 

"Loyal unto Death", "Never Defeated in Battle".  

May 18th 2026

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International Public Notice: Our Claim and Our Trail of Tears -- Addendum 2

 By Anna Von Reitz

Claim for Recognition of European Haplo Group X Inheritance in North American Indigenous Nations

Announcing genocide of the indigenous Tartarian nations, the parent culture of all Germanic / Franco nations, all nations of Haplo Group X, from the borders of Western China throughout Central Asia, Europe, Canada and The United States, an attempt to erase a root race of humanity, during the past 300 years -- the same time period in which the Great Britain Company and the British Empire betrayed its own people and carried out its brutal rampage against humanity and truth.  

This has been Satan's "little while" --- 300 years in which our world has been ruled by lies and Liars, legal fictions, semantic deceits, false claims in commerce, double-speak, and lawfare. 

Why Tartaria Had to Be Erased:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQmfhomF9do

Addendum Proof of the Five Arrows --- Haplo Group X 

Here is the genetic proof of our indigenous people's presence in the Middle East, Europe, Canada and The United States. 

The reason the Iroquois League and our Germanic / Franco indigenous people all have this Mitochondrial Haplo X Group and why this Haplo Group and the Five Arrows symbology exists both in the Iroquois League and among our people in Germany and in France is obvious.  Just as we report above, our people have traveled all across Europe from the western borders of China all the way to the Americas at least 30,000 years ago, forming what we call "blood treaties" --- marriages and families who join our people together as nations.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbE1wFBg2Do  "The Cherokee Were Never Who We Thought -- DNA Proved It".

The Cherokee DNA findings confirm the much earlier contact with the Belle Chers than anyone imagined. They carry our Haplo Group X.  The same evidence will be found among the Ojibwe and Iroquois and Algonquin and the Mik-Mak of Canada.  It will also be found in Mexico and Central America.  

On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 9:10 PM Anna von Reitz <avannavon@gmail.com> wrote:

Claim for All Germanic Assets in Europe

We are claiming all Germanic assets in Europe on behalf of all  indigenous tribal peoples and angelic nations who ultimately derive from Tartaria and who are still alive and living in lands that have traditionally been inhabited by them and which are culturally and/or linguistically and/or genetically connected to them. 

This impacts all European nations that have been ruled by Royal Houses in the past fifteen hundred years and all clan chieftain nations related to and ruled by the Belle Chers -- the "Beautiful Dears" -- for the past forty thousand years.  

The "Beautiful Dears" refers to the tribal indigenous peoples of white-skinned angelic nations and the tribal peoples of Tartarian origin who spread westward from the western borderlands of China across Europe, to Greenland, Canada, The United States, and South America.  

The DNA of our people has been stable for over 60,000 years and existed in all these locations for at least 30,000 years.  Our people conquered Rome, sacked Rome, rebuilt Rome, and also sent the five arrows to Darius of Persia, preventing Persian invasion of Europe and winning the military victory without bloodshed. 

Today, we send the five arrows to you, in peace, in brotherhood, with respect and with love.  We seek nothing which is not ours and do not deny the claims of others who live in peace with us.  These same five arrows are the symbol of the Iroquois League. 

As regards "Royal Houses" claimed by blood and by blood treaty in Europe:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBLmRRLO_I8

The fraud against us and all community-based living governments:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afi6rhcHTbA

Please enter our claim for the return of our traditional tribal and clan governments and recognize the peaceful reclamation of our lands and assets that rightfully belong to us.  

It is our intention to honor the Truth and live in abundance, giving kindness, respect, and compassion to each other and all Mankind. 

We know of no claim older, and no other superseding claim of any military victory which is not ours.  Our capitol remains at Belle Garde north of Paris, in the Kingdom of Gaul and the principality of Normandy, where it has remained since the Battle of Camlaan.

We utterly reject any claim of military conquest related to any World War conflict of commercial mercenary forces and refer everyone to the proofs of genocide practiced by these same imposters.

Anna Maria Wilhelmina Hanna Sophia Riezinger - von Reitzensten von Lettow-Vorbeck, wife of Guillaume de Armentrois, Mother of Eric Jon Belle Cher, also known as Alaric de Guillaume de Armentrois. 

"Loyal unto Death", "Never Defeated in Battle".  

May 18th 2026

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Claim for All Germanic Assets in Europe

 By Anna Von Reitz

International Public Notice: Our Claim and Our Trail of Tears

Announcing genocide of the indigenous Tartarian nations, the parent culture of all Germanic / Franco nations, all nations of Haplo Group X, from the borders of Western China throughout Central Asia, Europe, Canada and The United States, an attempt to erase a root race of humanity, during the past 300 years -- the same time period in which the Great Britain Company and the British Empire betrayed its own people and carried out its brutal criminal rampage against humanity and truth.  

This has been Satan's "little while" --- 300 years in which our world has been ruled by lies and Liars, legal fictions, semantic deceits, false claims in commerce, double-speak, and lawfare. 

Why Tartaria Had to Be Erased:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQmfhomF9do

Claim for All Germanic Assets in Europe

We are claiming all Germanic assets in Europe on behalf of all  indigenous tribal peoples and angelic nations who ultimately derive from Tartaria and who are still alive and living in lands that have traditionally been inhabited by them and which are culturally and/or linguistically and/or genetically connected to them. 

This impacts all European nations that have been ruled by Royal Houses in the past fifteen hundred years and all clan chieftain nations related to and ruled by the Belle Chers -- the "Beautiful Dears" -- for the past forty thousand years.  

The "Beautiful Dears" refers to the tribal indigenous peoples of white-skinned angelic nations and the tribal peoples of Tartarian origin who spread westward from the western borderlands of China across Europe, to Greenland, Canada, The United States, and South America.  

The DNA of our people has been stable for over 60,000 years and existed in all these locations for at least 30,000 years.  Our people conquered Rome, sacked Rome, rebuilt Rome, and also sent the five arrows to Darius of Persia, preventing Persian invasion of Europe and winning the military victory without bloodshed. 

Today, we send the five arrows to you, in peace, in brotherhood, with respect and with love.  We seek nothing which is not ours and do not deny the claims of others who live in peace with us.  These same five arrows are the symbol of the Iroquois League. 

As regards "Royal Houses" claimed by blood and by blood treaty in Europe:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBLmRRLO_I8

The fraud against us and all community-based living governments:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afi6rhcHTbA

Please enter our claim for the return of our traditional tribal and clan governments and recognize the peaceful reclamation of our lands and assets that rightfully belong to us.  

It is our intention to honor the Truth and live in abundance, giving kindness, respect, and compassion to each other and all Mankind. 

We know of no claim older, and no other superseding claim of any military victory which is not ours.  Our capitol remains at Belle Garde north of Paris, in the Kingdom of Gaul and the principality of Normandy, where it has remained since the Battle of Camlaan.

We utterly reject any claim of military conquest related to any World War conflict of commercial mercenary forces and refer everyone to the proofs of genocide practiced by these same imposters.

Anna Maria Wilhelmina Hanna Sophia Riezinger - von Reitzensten von Lettow-Vorbeck, wife of Guillaume de Armentrois, Mother of Eric Jon Belle Cher, also known as Alaric de Guillaume de Armentrois. 

"Loyal unto Death", "Never Defeated in Battle".  

May 18th 2026

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International Public Notice: The Song of My People

 By Anna Von Reitz

All ancient nations have their songs and sounds and the angelic nations are no different.  We have our chants and songs which identify us -- with a difference.  

While most ancient indigenous people used song to preserve history and healing wisdom the angelic nations used song for different purposes.

We used songs to heal -- directly.  This is an example of that tradition that is being brought forward now into the modern world to address the plagues that have been visited on mankind.  

For millions of seniors this song-knowledge can provide intense, immediate, life-changing benefits, and for millions of others, it can stave off ever having to experience the illnesses, weakness, and loss of mobility associated with old age.  

Shame the devil.  Listen and learn one of the songs of my people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEsKBEUdot4

Share this information and the do-anywhere practical application method with everyone throughout the Earth.  This is a gift of the First Light and the Original Activation Blueprint for all humanoid bodies. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEsKBEUdot4

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger - Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

May 24rh 2026

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International Public Notice: Transmitters, Not Receivers

 By Anna Von Reitz

We get the impression from everything we experience on this planet that we are built to receive and obey transmissions from others, ---even from things like corporate headquarters, but the truth is that we are all meant to transmit our own pure frequency and that is our primary intended function.  

We're natural transmitters.  

We are being blocked in a number of ways, but the most damning blockages are simple deceptions that lead us to block ourselves.  The assumption that we are supposed to receive instead of transmit is one of those. 

The idea that we have to be worthy and have permission to transmit our unique frequency is another. 

The idea that we have to be completely healed and whole and trained before we can transmit our pure frequency is a third pernicious lie that serves to keep us silent, crippled, and helpless in the face of the evil misrepresenting us. 

Find your voice.  Find your frequency.  Transmit. 

Sit in the dark -- literally, turn off the lights.  If possible, turn off the electrical current in your whole house so that the low-level constant whirring and sound of electrical devices stops. Turn it all off and sit. 

Just you.  No lights, no sound.  

And now, turn yourself off, too.  

Stop listening to the voice inside your head.  That isn't you.  Stop listening to the random thoughts associated with your ego.  Stop worrying about the rent and the kid's school schedule. Just stop. 

Breathe for a "count of completion" just like the days of the week, seven counts in, seven counts out.  Stay open. Keep breathing.

Sense that?  That high, steady, mysterious, softly pulsing frequency running like a physical melody underlying everything else?  

That's you.  That's your unique frequency --- your identity pass in the Kingdom of God.  Nobody has that frequency but you, and it's meant to be broadcast full bore back into the Universe, not dimmed, not reduced by trauma, not broken, not fizzling out in static. 

You are the ultimate radio station playing your own song back to creation.  That's what we are built for.  That's what we should be doing and need to be doing right now.

Various kinds of abuse and trauma can disable or distort our energy fields and broadcast apparatus on a physical basis, too.  Child abuse and Covid-19 both have this intent.  The Third and Fifth Chakras are always targeted.  

You may need to take stock of your physical condition.  You may need help clearing these hurdles, but don't stop and don't give up. 

Give yourself at least a couple minutes practice each day, finding your frequency and belting it out straight from the center of your soul, ---that secret space under your sternum.  

Go ahead and hum.  Use your chest like a resonator for your own frequency.  Sink into it.  Feel the peace.  This is you, connecting your identity to the Universe --- maybe for the first time ever. 

Your Creator needs to hear from you.  This is an important part of what the Evil Ones have been preventing. 

"They" are so mad at me, but let the devil rage.  I'm here for him. Just like Doc Holiday was there for Johnny Ringo.  It's not appointed to me to end Satan, but if he makes a break for it.... I'm here. 

I'm waiting. 

And over 200,000 Earth Angels are deploying.  

As this is happening, search your heart.  

Commit your heart and mind and tongue to speak only truth. 

Commit your heart and mind and tongue to unconditional love. 

Commit your heart and mind and tongue to eternal courage. 

This is the work and the commitment set before each one of us. 

Worldwide.  Everyone.  

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

May 24th 2026

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Granna Bytes: Counsel from Forrest Gump

By Anna Von Reitz

If you have been following along, you know that Granna has served as Maid of Honor or later, Matron of Honor, sixteen times.  Later this year, I have the tongue-in-cheek honor of serving once as "Best Man", too. 

You would think that by now, I would know a great deal about love, having mid-wifed (all but two) so many successful marriages, and having had my own 32-year marriage last "until death do us part".  

Certainly, I have had all the heartaches, all the triumphs, all the panoply of love in all its seasons and variations, the love of friends, the love of lovers, the love of desperate causes, the love that has no conditions, the love that demands ultimate vulnerability --- yes.  

No doubt, this is why people take me for an expert and are disappointed when they ask my advice and I point at the reflections of St. Paul, faithfully recorded as First Corinthians 13: 4-8.  In this brief, immortal passage, Paul outlines how love expresses itself, what it embraces, what it endures, and what it refuses to do.  

It's my all-time guidepost and was my saving grace as a young person levelling up my own understanding of what love is -- and this is an important understanding for everyone to have, but increasingly I get pleas from those who read this passage and still need support on the fundamentals.  

How about the advice of Forrest Gump?  A man who definitely knew "what love is" ?

What I Have Learned from Forrest Gump

 

Love doesn't hurt.  It heals.  Healing begins with recognition.

Love honors your Soul.

Love knows no fear of vulnerability.

Love walks quietly beside you.

Love is consistent and enduring.

Love keeps faith with you.

Love doesn't question its truth.

Love never gives you bad advice.

Love feels your pain.

Love respects your fears.

Love meets your needs.

Love accepts your limitations.

Love nurtures and defends.

Love doesn't ask you to abandon your truth.

Love notices when you are weary, anxious or sad.

Love is often silent and simply present.

Love is reliable, steady, and gentle.

Love smiles when you walk through the door.

Love doesn't hide or disguise.

Love is always innocent.

Love is loyal.

Love shares its good fortune.

Love accepts loneliness and suffering.

Love doesn't forget.

What Forrest Gump Teaches Us

Speak kindly to yourself, always.

Speak to yourself kindly, but without pride.

Accept your imperfections.

Accept your limitations.

Know that you are loved anyway.

Know that you have special gifts.

Be fair to you.

Notice the treasures of your soul.

Be patient with yourself.

Protect your heart.

It's okay to have boundaries.

Value your own integrity.

Remember the things you've overcome.

Feel things fully, even pain.

Then release the pain.

When you feel unseen, unheard, unloved...

See yourself, hear yourself, love yourself.

Look in the mirror.

See more than the physical image.

See your courage and generosity.

See your willingness to care and to share.

Your true love will mirror you.

Say, "I am ready to live my truth."

Muster your courage, strength and self-respect.

Say, "I'm ready for someone whose love doesn't falter."

Notice how people unconsciously treat you.

Do they light up when they see you?

Are they really listening?

Do they treat your body with reverence?

Do they care about your health?

Do they cherish your soul?

Are you always part of their picture?

Is your loneliness their own?

Release anyone and anything that isn't yours.

Say, "I release what doesn't belong to me."

Say, "My arms are empty to receive what's mine."

Then stand back and know:

You are acting in good faith.

Good faith and peace will come to you. 

Know this: the past doesn't matter.

Past pain doesn't matter.

What matters is this moment called "now".

What matters is you.

The people you love.

And those who love you. 

Granna

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Granna Bytes: Memorial Day Transmission for Young People

 By Anna Von Reitz

Your whole life you have assumed that you are a receiver.  This is because from the moment of your arrival in the conscious flesh, people have been transmitting to you.  Relentlessly.  

They have "helpfully" defined who you are, by giving you a name, a race, a religion, a political party, a nationality, a social class, a membership in a family, an economic status, a birthday, a weight, a backstory of ancestry and history, a language, yes, a total identity.  

And it's all donated.  You didn't choose any of it.  You are furnished secondhand, like an abandoned house.  

Your place in the pecking order of the world and the microcosm of your family is made abundantly clear to you at a very early age, and from this hodge-podge of incoming information, you deduce who you are and what you are.  

At the same time, above and beyond this initial processing, you are increasingly exposed to the Loud Voice -- the internal dialogue that runs ceaselessly in your head.  This seems to be your voice, your internal dialogue, but is it? 

Closer inspection shows that this, too, is a broadcast mish-mash of sensory impressions, communications from others, commercial and political advertisements, rehashes of earlier material recalled, and a pervasively negative evaluation of you and your performance in life. 

Against an ever-changing backdrop of standards donated by society at large, your Loud Voice measures you and finds you wanting.  You aren't tall enough, you aren't small enough, your hair is unacceptable, your academic performance is insufficient, and so on and on and on, and you get caught up in what your Granna calls, "the Chase".  

This is an endless pursuit of perfection as defined by Unknown Third Parties, who also provide you with a timeline of development standards and duties.  You start Kindergarten at five years of age, graduate from High School at eighteen, finish college or a four-year trade school program at twenty-two, marry the same year, have a child by 25, and so on and on, mid-life crisis at forty, flabbiness sets in at fifty, and by 65 you have half a dozen chronic, incurable, but very expensive health conditions....you have become a Cash Cow to be milked by the pharmaceutical corporations, hospitals, and healthcare providers til the end of your days. 

It's all scripted, and you are more or less compelled to be a character defined by someone else in a story dictated by someone else according to a plot line someone else decided. 

By this ineluctable and largely unconscious process of programming and barely veiled external threat enforced by peer pressure, social shaming, and a host of authority figures who maintain control: parents, school officials, military instructors, job bosses ---- all possibility of having a life of your own is largely rendered moot, and somewhere in the grey area beyond 65, where until recently, most people were allowed to die in peace --- many people wake up with a life half-lived.  

Add some music, art, fashion, culinary creations --- and the sum total of all this is what passes for "culture".  

This is the truth.  Look at it.   Your Granna isn't wrong about this.  She has observed it closely throughout her life, and although she was roguish enough to bypass a lot of it or to redefine it after-the-fact, she has lived it, too.  She has faced all the programming and indoctrination and stifling demands that you do. 

What is most notable at the end?  That a surprising percentage of us did not give up.  We resisted.  We held out for something bigger and better than a game of shuffleboard on a cruise ship as our grand finale.  We fought for sanity and individuality and the rights of God's unique creations and always knew -- surely without being told -- that there is no such thing as a One-Size-Fits-All life. 

It's the quiet rebellion of these retirees, marked by refusals over the course of their lifetimes, that is your inheritance. 

Each and every one of them remembered how to say, "No.". 

They said it for you, for your sake, when you were too young to say it, and before they had a clear view of the landscape themselves.  They acted on instinct, a deep knowing that told them that whatever it was, was wrong.  It didn't smell right.  It didn't feel right.  It didn't make sense.  

So as you go forward, know this --- your inheritance is based on one word: no.  

Everything that is dear to you, everything that is worthwhile, everything that matters in this world that has been however painstakingly preserved for you, has its basis in a refusal by prior generations to accept something other or less.  

Remember that they said no, often and vehemently.  They said it quietly, or they shouted it from rooftops, or they joined hands and chanted.  

This Memorial Day, remember the beautiful rebels of every prior generation, who had the strength and good sense to say no to violence and greed, disrespect and insanity.  Remember those who stepped outside the Daily Indoctrination, who didn't get married at 22, who didn't aspire to look like anyone else, who didn't fit the mold, who followed their hearts and who honored their own truth and discovered their own conscience.  

Beyond the grave, beyond the limits of human endurance, they are still speaking for you until you find your voice and speak for yourselves. 

Granna

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