Thursday; January 9
Today, our nation says a final good-bye to President James Earl Carter, Jr. Jimmy Carter was raised in Plains, Georgia and seemingly came out of nowhere to become the 39 th president of the United States in 1977. Whether you agreed with President Carter’s politics or not, just about everyone I know will acknowledge him as one of the best ex-presidents in our era. Jimmy Carter ended up being the oldest living ex-president (living to be 100 years old) – but more than that, he filled his life with good deeds. President Carter was involved in the first election I could vote in; but maybe more important to me was that he portrayed a morality fitting a leader of our nation. No, I didn’t agree with everything he did or even all that he believed, but I did like the way he carried himself. As I looked through some of his quotes, I came across one that really struck me, “We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”. The old...