Do the Right Thing

These are the most unsettling times in my lifetime and would expect, most of yours too. What we are experiencing now is unprecedented.

There are many theories out there about this scourge, called COVID-19, and there’s only one person (read entity) I know of that has that answer, but I digress.

I have had a lot of time lately to sit back and reflect about the last several years. What have we come to?

We are no longer able to express our differing opinions without Hate and vitriol spitting out on the other end. Why? What has happened to us? Why can’t we meet in the middle for a common good? Why have we lost common decency?

We must change. This country, the good ole’ USA, deserves better!

It’s time to come together and do good. Help your neighbors, friends and especially your enemies. We need to quit being Red and Blue and start being “Americans” again, united for the common good.

We can do better and we Must do Better! Our future demands it.

Godspeed.

_ Mickey Spence

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

About Dick Cook

About Contributed Article