For a number of years I have tried to express a deep and profound love for these things; to be able to say what I feel in my harts.

I know most of you feel the same as I do about our county. Now and then we gripe about some of her imperfections, but sometimes that's good. Especially if it gets us working together to make things better. It seems to me we often take too much for granted, and have a tendency to forget "The Good Things about America."

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for. May we nurture her strengths and strengthen her weaknesses so that she will always be a "Land of the Free, and Home of the Brave."

AND TIME HASN'T CHANGED THE COWBOY'S WAY OF LIFE ALL THAT MUCH. STILL TODAY HE RIDES HIS HORSE, GATHERING AND ROPING CATTLE THROUGH THE CANYONS OF ARIZONA, THE HIGH DESRT OF OREGON AND ROCKY MOUNTINAINS OF COLORADO.