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| Martin Treptow |
My friend, Tom Itsell, forwarded this video to me. It was originally posted almost three years ago. As of this morning, 1.8 million people have watched it.
Like you, I miss a lot of things worth seeing and hearing because they are lost in an infinite number of things that are neither. So Tom, I owe you one for making sure I saw and heard this.
In this video you'll hear and see President Ronald Reagan. From his first words, I was mesmerized by his presentation, but most of all I was enthralled by his sincerity.
In a world that has grown top heavy with empty machismo, sincerity is often shrugged off as wimpy, and that's why a collection of empty cans are leading in the current struggle for power we call presidential campaigning, and one of them is going to be elected. No matter if you are Republican or Democrat, that should alarm you.
So here's the dare. I dare you to watch the video and listen to the words of the last president we've had who didn't want the job for prestige, power, or money. A man who sought and won the job known as leader of the free world simply because he wanted to serve.
In this video you'll also meet Martin Treptow, who pledged to himself, "I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the whole issue of the struggle depended on me alone." There aren't many Martin Treptow's left in this country which was once filled with them.
Martin wrote those words in his diary as a reminder to himself. After his death, they were adopted by the U.S. Army and became the soldier's pledge. But Martin never intended his words to be a soldier's pledge. They where his pledge to himself, a personal statement of who he was. Martin Treptow was a man who took responsibility for his life, his choices, and his actions.
The challenge. Are you willing to follow the lead of Martin Treptow? Are you willing to take responsibility for your life, every part of it?
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