Please Excuse Our Growing Pains
            As we move our message of hope and love across the nation it’s becoming obvious that we have growing pains.
            You’ll notice the “pain” mostly in our old computers, which cannot handle the torrent of work that our success is causing to the old cpu’s. We must revamp the whole computer system and let the younger generation take it over.
            This is happening because our founder, Attorney Ed Pawlick realized last winter that just telling the truth in Massachusetts would not work. The evil empire of the Sulzberger family is all-consuming. No one hears any news except what Pinch and the rest of the clan decide.
            Therefore, Pawlick determined he had to “retire” and go around the Sulzbergers. He set out to inform the rest of the country that we’re not different from them. The Sulzbergers are coming after them, too. He’s been doing that for about a year now with excellent success.
            One obvious success is Bernie Goldberg who is spreading our message across the nation in his best-selling books, including his newest, “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.” As we’ve said before, Bernie obviously used us as his inspiration but without any credits. That’s fine with us. We don’t want credits, only a return to our nation’s values.
            We also notice that the New York Times is now being pummeled on a regular basis by Fox News and other places where our message is heard.

Pawlick’s Been Around
            Pawlick’s been around longer than most. He witnessed the depression and World War II. For him, D-Day was not a movie but a place where his friends spent the summer of 1944. It wasn’t a fun time. There was nothing glorious or exciting about it. Just mud and death. He was lucky in that he was in the class of 1945 and therefore spared combat experience. His friends who did survive remember all that. They wonder now where our nation is heading. They cheer Pawlick’s efforts in 2005 almost unanimously.
            He lost his roommate at Williams College, Jim Dorland, one-year younger than he. Jim wasn’t torn from his home in WWII. He died in worse conditions as an unwilling hero in the Korean War. He served gallantly as a forward-observer for the artillery, flying low over the invading Chinese Army to spot where the shells were landing. He’d much rather be hiking the trails of Vermont or working on the wheat harvest in the Palouse hills of Oregon. But he wasn’t one to grump or complain even though no one noticed him or the other American boys who were being killed by the Chinese because of the ineptness of our leaders in Washington. A soldier wasn’t a “hero” as in WWII. Most everyone could escape Korea if they had enough money to get married or stay in college forever.
            The haunting question remains whether Jim died in vain. That is particularly true when we watch the North Korean government acting as it does today.   It’s also troubling when some people act as though President Bush invented sending American boys overseas. He only inherited what was begun a long time ago.
            Pawlick also served in Korea, as a private in the Infantry. No, he didn’t volunteer. He’s still searching for that teenage male who is supposed to love war and killing. Every soldier he ever met is always trying to be sent somewhere else, such as to Europe during the Korean years.

On a Very Personal Note (This section can be skipped by most readers.)
            Pawlick has more reason to be angry, but he’s not angry, just cautious. While a counselor at Boy Scout camp in the summer of 1943, he had a serious virus for which the camp doctor experimented with sulfa, the new “wonder drug,” instead of just sending him home to recover. As a result, he got diabetes, the “new” disease which was just being discovered. But the doctors were not experienced enough to always recognize it, particularly when 10% of diabetics never show sugar in their urine, which was the only test they used back then. Pawlick did not realize he had diabetes until 1958 when doctors at Yale Law School told him he had some chronic disease that he must uncover.
            Therefore, even though Pawlick received a coveted, competitive appointment to Annapolis in 1945 while serving in the U.S. Navy, he chose not to go because he knew he could not survive the close-order drills even though he had been excellent at that before being used for an experiment by the camp doctor. When Korea came, he knew he would not survive any Officer Training School, so he was drafted into the Infantry as a private at age 25. How did he survive the rigors of Korea? Although he does not like to talk about it, he will tell you it was not easy.
            (Although some will say that Pawlick does not have a “bad” case of diabetes, he has had fasting blood scores over 400, even though anything above 120 is “bad.” So don’t say that when he is around. His retort will probably be that he can have diabetes just as bad as he wants, which is not at all.)