President's Report

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

The other day I watched a young lady from Connecticut win

a million dollars on the quiz show, “Wheel of Fortune”. This

has only happened four times in the forty-eight-year history

of the show. In fact, she was the biggest winner ever on the

program, It is not easy for contestants to win anything, much

less the million-dollar prize. Years ago, I was a contestant

on a quiz show called, “The Jokers Wild”. When I came out

of the green room, I entered the stage facing a live audience,

spot lights, and all the television cameras, it was hard to

remember my name much less answer questions. The young

lady was incredibly fortunate to win. Contestants must first

land on the million-dollar wedge, solve the puzzle, and

make it to the bonus round without hitting a bankruptcy.

Then they have to be lucky enough to have spun the wheel

to the right spot to win the million-dollar prize. Her total

winnings came to $1,035,155.

You know, being born in America and living in this country

you have already won the big prize. This is the greatest

country in the world. I know we have had struggles and

issues ever since we were founded as a nation. Some of these

challenges have been rather serious and threatened to destroy

us as a nation, but they didn’t. We live in a difficult world

filled with evil, but for almost two hundred and fifty years

our country has prevailed. It still is the land of opportunity

and hope. We have had wise and strong leadership to see

us through. When our country was founded, we landed on

the million-dollar wedge. We have been able to solve the

puzzles through the years, and we have avoided bankruptcy.

Finally, we spun the wheel and were fortunate enough to

pick the right letter to keep us as a winner among all the

other countries in the world.

As we come to this Thanksgiving Day, let us be grateful

and feel extremely fortunate that we live here. Let us stop

calling each other names and decide

to come together and deal with our

concerns so we can move forward. We

need to put aside our personal agendas

and work together to keep this a great

country. Let us be thankful that each

of us can have a share in keeping the

United States the greatest country in

the world.

Dr. Kurt Miericke

THOA President

Publisher, Tuscawilla Today