People don’t like the unknown for more reasons than I can list, and the unknown is usually dismissed or hidden away. VoP’s goal is to bring some very important unknown problems into the spotlight so they can be addressed.
Improve Quality of Life
What is Quality of life? Most would summarize it as how well you live your life. I have pondered over its meaning quite a bit, and it took some horrible illnesses in the family to help me find out what it really means. Quality of life is the framework in which one’s daily life routine, decisions, healthcare, and participation are derived from. There are many Americans who’s quality of life could be significantly improved if their adversities were known (to the right people) and addressed. VoP intends to expose some very important issues that needs fixed, and hopefully help lead the way to their resolutions.
To know me is to know that I am someone different to each person who would speak of me. I have been a father figure to many, a counselor, a friend, a soldier, a leader, an opposer, a disruptor, and even asshole comes to mind, and the list goes on. What’s important is each of these names I have been referred to, I was simply trying to help people with doing the right thing.
As a child I grew up out of my time, I was very poor, the kind of poor you only heard stories about. I grew up in a small shack with no power, no running water, no bathroom, no bedroom, no car, no money and in the head of a small holler in the backwoods of WV. It’s not all bad, I grew up what I guess you would call a farm boy. So as a child I learned how to grow food, milk cows, raise chickens, can our own food, and various other things you would learn living this kind of lifestyle. During this stage of life I developed a strong family bond, and I also learned how cruel people could be towards others that are not as privileged (I am referring to social classes given between poverty and wealth) as themselves, and these were the first things that started to shape who I would become.
In the face of adversity growing up I flourished into the upper percentage of my classmates in a triple A school, and had many choices of what I could do after high school. I passed up a college education and the chance to play college football, and joined the military as a Chemical Ops specialist in the Army. I had a lot of good training in the Army but I didn’t like moving around, so I decided to go into the Army National Guard after my service was up. I retired from the Army National Guard in 2018, and you can read my posts about the national guard for more details on my career there.
Voice of the People (VoP) 