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Letter: Election is past; stop whining, fix broken nation
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Twenty years ago, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States.There was nothing about "until the end of my enlistment," or "as long as you wear the uniform." There is nothing that says I need a gun to do it. I have grown tired of watching people wrap themselves in their interpretation of the Constitution, seeking to twist and exploit it for their own ends, while shouting about "protecting individual liberties." In the hours following the election, as winners were being declared, emotions were high. Twitter was flooded with celebrities decrying the election results as a "dark day for America." They could not be more right, and more wrong. The failure of so-called Super PACs to "buy" their candidates into office and the subsequent meltdown, on air, of one's founder and figurehead, have proven that money is not speech, and the person who spends the most does not get what he/she wants. The biblical doom-saying and calls for revolution by celebrities on the right are shameful, pathetic and embarrassing. This kind of tantrum-throwing disgraces the memories of everyone who has ever put on a uniform to defend the rights in which they enshroud themselves to defend their bad behavior. Both sides agree the country is a mess, and both want to help their country and their fellow man. We have chosen the people who will be representing us, using a system set forth by wiser men than anyone speaking out this cycle. It is time to use that system to its fullest potential, instead of whining about how broken it is because you didn't get your way, whichever way that may be. Aaron Ring, Rock Island 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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