Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

What?’s in a name? Well, it really depends on the name doesn?’t it? I think of names like Washington, Lincoln, Glenn, Bush and Claus and I get a certain picture in mind that I am sure most of you do. I am also sure most of you get the same picture. I think of a man crossing the Delaware River, a monolith in the District of Columbia with no equal. I think of a memorial with a man sitting on a chair with the weight of the country on his shoulders but carried this nation through our darkest times. I think of the nation?’s first venture into the last frontier, a tireless civil servant, a statesman and again a man of space. I think of 2 leaders of the most powerful nation on the planet whose commitment to God and nation set an example for all other nations to follow. I think of a merry man who puts a special look on our children?’s faces that no one else can.

Now I would mention a few other names Gray. Brahm. Bushman. Fox. Wright. Maxey. Postage. Hughes. Bushman. Mapes. Berry. Picture each of these people in your mind. Picture the deeds most associated with them. Picture their commitments, loyalties and faith. Take a few minutes to read back through these discussion boards and the information on ?“Our Pages?”. Read the articles and articles in the local papers, the Dispatch and the Eagle Gazette. Read the words, read the lines and then read between the lines.


By Confucius

What's in a name? (Pt. 2)


Let a picture form for each of these names and then take time to be with your family. After a while, think of them again and let the pictures come back. Pretend the pictures are pieces to a jigsaw puzzle and start to put them together. Do it just like you have done it with your kids a hundred times. Find the corners, start putting the border together and finally fill in the middle. Before long you have it done. Then stand back and look at the result. Burn that picture into your mind. Commit it to your memory just like the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the look on a space explorer?’s face and the rosy cheeks and white beard. Remember the picture as you remember the World Trade Center under the columns of black smoke. No one alive today will forget the images of September 11. No one will ever forget the face of the man that ordered the attack. No one in Pickerington should forget what you see when you put the pieces of the Pickerington puzzle together.

What you see in the picture is devastation. The devastation of an entire community. The demise of a once proud and outstanding school system. The obliteration of a quality of life offered in few other communities.


By Conficius