There is a storm brewing, Oklahoma.

We must give our elected officials the time to make a true impact.

“What happened??” “Why??”
“He’s a VETERAN - something should be done.”
“They should just get help.”

Our regular weekly meetings had come to a halt.

I am old enough to remember many things. One of them is standing in a very long line with my family, indeed many families, at the Health Department to get the Oral Polio Vaccine.

The pandemic created by COVID-19 has in many unexpected or unprepared ways significantly slowed or halted economic activity locally, nationally and globally.

Nobody wants to be doing what we are doing now. Nobody. We find ourselves in a place where decisions are between livelihoods and lives.

I am a fourth-generation Oklahoman with American roots going back seven generations. My father served in Vietnam. His father served in W WII.