"If you had a friend like Ben..."

The recent events have saddened me a great deal, but the finger pointing and name calling makes me even sadder. A tragedy has struck, lives were lost, homes destroyed, and spirits broken. There is no way to turn back the clock and undo the damage that's been done. So let us try to move forward in peace and unity. I know it will be difficult because the administration has done such a wonderful job of dividing the nation into red states and blue states and making us forget that we are supposed to be the UNITED states. During this critical time in our nation's history remember the words of Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of this country, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall hang separately."