REPRESENT

Each Thursday, I wake up early and go to a prayer meeting with a couple of guys in my church.  It is a time for each of us to talk with other men about things that are on our mind - good, bad, and ugly.  The talks are private and do not leave the room.  At the end of the meeting, we bow our heads in prayer and ask our Lord to guide us and continue to bless us.

Last week, we asked the Lord to watch over me this week while I was in a federal trial arguing on behalf of a mother who had passed away at 25 years of age.  We were fighting for her 4 yr. old daughter; to give her a future.  A sad case, but also a rewarding case.  To see that little girl and to know that each day that I go to work I represent someone who is dependent on me to be their voice.

That morning, after our prayer meeting I went to the Elmwood Cemetery to help the VFW place flags at the sites of soldiers who have passed.  Men and women who have represented us in battle and defended our freedoms.  These are the people we need to respect everyday and especially to remember on Monday.  Monday is Memorial Day, a day created following President Lincoln's assassination in April 1865.  The first known observance of a Memorial Day was in Charleston, SC on May 1, 1865. 

During the war, soldiers who were prisoners had been held at the Charleston Race Course.  Nearly ten thousand people, mostly freedmen, gathered on May 1st to commemorate the dead soldiers who fought in the Civil War. 

Take the day and thank a soldier.  They represent us on the field of battle and without them I could not represent you in SC house district 103.

Many thanks to my father and father-in-law.


                                 Win With Winslow,