Memories Of September 11th, 2001 - Twenty Five Years Down The Line - Lessons Learned

Monday, September 14th, 2026 

My Dear America:

We just recently celebrated September 11th, 2026.  Twenty Five Years have gone by since that Awful Day when You and I, America, woke up to find that we had been invaded by Terrorists and following that day we would never be the same again.

My Memories of that day are mainly quick flashes of things that occurred throughout the day on 9/11/01.

I have one strong memory and that is that the day was an incredibly beautiful day.  The weather was gorgeous.  The sun was shining.  It wasn't too hot or too cold.  It was just right, the kind of day that you hope to wake up to every day of your life.

I was sleeping soundly and was not planning to get up too soon because I didn't start work until after lunch. Sandy was suddenly shaking me and seemed to be upset.

"What's Wrong," I asked her as I woke up.

"Get Up." she said.  "You have to see this," she continued.  "My mother called me and told me to turn on the television and I did.  It's horrible.  Somebody just crashed their plane into the World Trade Center.

I don't recall if I had ever even heard the words World Trade Center before but I certainly didn't know much about it or even where it was until I came out to our living room and watched what we thought had to be an accident as a quick flash on TV showed what appeared to be a plane hitting a large building which announcers told us was in New York.  We were not the only ones watching the World Trade Center and thinking that it was an accident.  Probably a small plane hitting the World Trade center. The talking heads on TV were convinced it was an accident too.  It had to be an accident, we thought.

And then The Second Plane hit the second building in the World Trade Center Complex and nobody continued to think that either of these plane crashes were accidents anymore.

Over the past few days and into the weekend much has been said about the events of September 11th, 2001 and will continue to be said abut this important Historical Event that shook You to your core, America.  

We know a lot about 9/11 now but that was not the case in 2001 When the Twin Towers were destroyed, The Pentagon was also hit and a little later in the morning the passengers and crew of Flight United 93 apparently fought back against the terrorists who commandeered their plane that was reportedly heading for the Capitol Building in Washington to crash into it.  Fortunately for Congress but not the United 93 Passengers that plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

We didn't know it at the time that this highly organized bit of madness was a once and done effort to destroy more than a little bit of American Democracy.  It looked at the time like a well coordinated First Strike at our country that could just be the beginning attack that might be followed by continued tong term orchestrated violence on American soil.

Clearly none of us knew what in the hell was happening at the time.

What September 11th of 2001 turned out to be was the first day of the first battle of the "War On Terror" that the George W. Bush Administration initiated following the 9/11 terror attacks.  Although looking back on it these days we can clearly see that mistakes were made following September 11th and that Wars were initiated that caused more problems than they solved.  

These days when we see a straight up Fascist in the White House we tend to forgive George Bush for some of his sins because we recognize that although he made some serious mistakes his intentions at the time appeared to be good.

We certainly could have done without the Forever War in Afghanistan and the damn near forever War in Iraq.  But on the other hand Bush was handed a situation that he clearly had to respond in some way to and he did the best he could.  

While it is easy to find fault with much of what the Bush Administration did in hindsight in response to September 11th, back in 2001 it was not clear to anyone back then what the right path was.

At the time that George W. Bush established the Department of Homeland Security it appeared to be the right thing to do in response to 9/11.  These days, however, as we watch the Trump Administration continue to turn ICE and the FBI and other Law Enforcement Agencies into Gestapo like tools of cruelty and chaos it is difficult to observe these agencies as they spin out of control on the streets of America.

Today in our Country We are no longer quite as worried about our destruction from ISIS or Al Quida or some other foreign Terrorist Organization destroying us from the skies as we were in 9/11.

Today in our Country we have more to worry about from those Americans who don't crash our planes into our buildings but appear to be intent on crashing our Democracy from within.

We certainly had been warned by many American Writers over the years from Sinclair Lewis to Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson that one day we might be faced with a Fascist in the White House with very bad intentions.

The worst has happened.  Donald Trump has somehow weaseled his way back into the White House and as long as he is in there we are all up Shits Creek. We are no longer so concerned about Death Planes In the sky.  Our concerns now are more focused on Death Squads in our Cities.

The Vermin are no longer only "Over There". They are also running loose in the White House, In the Republican Halls of Congress and even in the Supreme Court.

And we are running out of time to stop them from turning the United States from a Two Hundred and Fifty Year Old Democracy  into a Russian Patsy State.  

Please Everyone Consider this, Every time you hear Donald Trump running his mouth about Communists Please consider the fact that every time he talks about Putin and Xi he praises them.  If Trump was Anti Communist How come he loves all these Communist Leaders.

Wake the hell up America and Smell the Treason before its too late. 

We are running out of chances to save our Democracy.  

We do have one more chance in November to vote out those Republicans who have been willing to allow Donald Trump to run Roughshod over Democracy for the past year and a half in America.

Let's Vote and Let's hope we are not too late to save Democracy in America.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher

On The Second Anniversary I Have Spent Without You, Sandy

 September 1st, 2026

Dear Sandy:

Today, September First, 2026 is the Second Anniversary of our Wedding in 1979 that I have spent without you.  You passed away on June 9th of 2025 and although I thought I was doing Okay throughout that first year alone I discovered on the Anniversary of your death this year that I had been kidding myself. Since I realized that it had been a year without you I have found myself getting much more deeply depressed than I had been previously.

It is on holidays or anniversaries like today that it really hits me that you are gone, really gone and will never be coming back.  

I start to have visions of the morning you died and collapsed on the bathroom floor and the EMS People worked on you for a long time before taking you to the hospital.  I remember two Doctors coming into the room where I was waiting and I knew what they were going to say before they said it.

"We did everything we could but she didn't make it."

I began to feel faint but they put me in a wheelchair and admitted me to the emergency Room to check my vital signs and my sugar level.  When our daughter arrived we both went to see you and we were both astounded by how beautiful and peaceful you looked.

A lot has happened since you sailed away to heaven.

Our daughter took me down to her new home in Havertown for the week after we left the hospital.  I'm sure you would be very proud of our daughters and our other relatives who have all been very kind and considerate to me since you passed.  I have spent a good deal of time with our daughters and their families over the past year.  Actually both of our daughters and their families now live in Havertown, which is on the Main Line right on the outskirts of Philadelphia.

I will be moving to Havertown myself shortly.  I just signed a lease on a very nice but very small Apartment very close to "The Kelly Center" which is modeled after the "Godfrey Daniels" Music Club that has operated for years in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  The Kelly Center has a lot of musical happenings that I hope to take part in.

I know you will be happy for me but also a little jealous at the same time.  In a way I will be living your dream of residing closer to your daughters and granddaughters.  I know that this was your dream and I'm so sorry that it didn't come true for you.  Although you wanted to move closer to the girls you loved our house and all of the pictures and antiques in it.  I love our house too but I am willing to give up what I need to to be closer to our daughters and granddaughters.

Shortly after your Funeral Celebration Our daughter was able to set me up with a program called Grief Share.  This program is a national program that is generally conducted through local churches.  Grief Share was helpful to me to help me see that I was not alone in my grief.  There were several other people in the program who had also lost people close to them.

I was also very lucky in the past year to find a place to play my guitar and sing close to home on certain Saturday mornings.  The place was a health food restaurant called Cafe 23 in Emmaus, Pa.  

All in all it has been a very lonely year for me.  Although neither of us was in the greatest shape for the past few years We had each other to hang out with, to talk to and to watch Television with and even sometimes get stoned with each other.  I have loved you for a long time and will always love you and know that I was lucky enough to love you and have you in my life for a long time.  I know that my time on this earth is limited.  Your death has taught me that.  But in the time that I have left I will always have your love and life to look back on and realize how lucky I was to love you and share a life with you for as long as I had you in my life.

I miss you like crazy but I will never regret sharing the love that we had for each other during the time that we had together.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher   

A Review Of The Book "Regime Change" By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

August 20th, 2026

My Dear America:

I had initially wanted to write a Post and Podcast titled "Flight of The TACO" because I truly thought that Donald Trump's disgusting behavior regarding putting his staff and journalists in grave danger without the decency to notify them of that danger was in my mind a new Low. I changed my mind about that, however, because I just finished reading "Regime Change" and feel compelled to write a Review of that Important, Compelling and Highly Disturbing Book.

Here Goes.

Title: Regime Change

Authors: Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

464 Pages

Every page of the book "Regime Change" is both Highly Interesting and Highly Disturbing.

Much of what Authors Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan write about in this book is not exactly new.  We have all seen over the past year and a half what Donald Trump has done to demolish and denigrate much of what we have come to Respect and Understand about America during the past Two Hundred and Fifty Years of American Democracy.  What these two Authors add to the story of Trump's First Year of Trump Unleashed in his Second (Possibly Stolen) Term is the addition of Background Information which, in almost every case turns what we all knew even more disturbing than we thought it was in the first place.

Haberman and Swan are both truly professional Journalists and show it throughout the book.  Both are seasoned writers who seem to have some significant sources who are in extremely close contact with some of the important movers and shakers in the Trump Administration.  

Both of the Authors are presently employed as Journalists for the Prestigious and highly respected New York Times Newspaper and both have covered the White House beat for several years.  Each chapter of the book adds background to the Trump White House Story and most chapters give background information on many of the backroom deals and many individuals who advise Trump and carry out his often questionable orders including, among others Stephen Miller and Stephen Cheung.

Haberman and Swan Write each chapter and section of the book with surprising clarity in their description of incidents and individuals involved in White House matters.

As Haberman and Swan describe much of what has gone on in the Second Trump Administration it appears as though  in many matters regarding the Trump Administration Nobody seems to know what they are doing because Trump  changes his mind  constantly regarding what he wants done.  This tendency has embarrassed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance often.

One of the more interesting stories regarding Rubio and Vance in the book occurred at a Dinner Party Trump gave for Fox News And Wall Street Journal Executive, Rupert Murdoch.  While everyone was at the dinner table Trump asked Murdoch who he preferred to see run for President in 2028, Rubio or Vance. Murdoch tried to be noncommital but did say that he thought that Marco was "Brilliant".

Haberman and Swan seemed to have the backstories for Ice and Iran nailed down pretty well in the book.

All in all "Regime Change" is a rather horrifying and unsettling look at life in the United States during the Second Coming of Donald Trump.

Although the entire book is a terrifying look into the inner workings of the Trump White House it appears to me as though the most terrifying part of the text is the Epilogue which describes Haberman and Swan's efforts to get an interview with Donald Trump, which at first he refused to give them.

When Trump did finally agree to meet with the Authors of "Regime Change" he spent much of the time comparing his power to some of the most vicious and violent leaders that ever lived including Alexander The Great, The Caesars, William the Conqueror, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and Napoleon, as well as Putin, Xi and Kim Jong Un.  Trump pointed out to the Authors that he saw himself  as much more powerful than any of these leaders as he led the United States.  

As Haberman and Swan ended their interview Trump went off on Maggie Haberman telling her that "I know that your book will be critical, but remember this: People are tired of your bullshit. Always criticizing."

It was a chilling end to the interview but to her credit and to the credit of Jonathan Swan These two outstanding Journalists have continued to write stories critical of the man who sees himself as the most powerful Leader who ever lived.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher      

                                                                                                                                           

Musikfest Is Over For 2026 - Long Live Musikfest

 

My Dear America:

There Is nothing in the world as thrilling to a musician as looking out from a  Musikfest Stage into a sea of faces enjoying the weather and also enjoying the music being performed on that Musikfest stage.  It has been a long while now since I have had that feeling but I confess that every year at Musikfest time I miss that musical thrill that came with every Good Performance in those long ago days when I was lucky enough to play at Musikfest with my Musical Buddies in "The Earth Riders" or with "The Lehigh Valley Folk Music Society."   

I realize that very few people outside of Pennsylvania and New Jersey might have ever heard of Musikfest or have been to Musikfest but regardless this 43 Year old, 16 Stage, 11 Day FREE MUSIC FESTIVAL continues to break attendance records every year that it is presented and the weather cooperates.

This Past Year, 2026 was a banner year for Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  The music was overall pretty awesome and the weather was pretty awesome too.  As hard as it is to believe almost all of the concerts are free.  There is one stage, The Wind Creek Stage which features pretty well known acts and charges for them.  This year many of those well known acts like TI and da baby were not well known to me.  I had heard of John Mullaney, however.  He was the first Well Known Comic that I recall playing Musikfest.  There were some free stages this year, however, featuring mainly locally known comics.

Music presented at Musikfest includes all kinds of music.  The Festplatz Stage has always featured some polka music (Not my cup of tea) but these days it features other types of music as well. Rock - Folk Rock - Blues - Jazz - Bands that performed Tributes to Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band and The Grateful Dead were also featured this year.

In addition to the thrill of playing at Musikfest with my bands back in the day I have had some wonderful experiences and memories not only this year but in many past years as well.  This year I made it to Musikfest a couple of times.  On the first Friday of Musikfest when it was hellishly hot I sought refuge from the heat in the Artsquest Building at the Frank Banko Ale House, which is a Movie Theater with Comfortable Seats and Air Conditioning.  During Musikfest  this theater changed its name to the Lutron Jazz Cabaret and featured an Excellent Jazz Band called "Doctor, Doctor". One Doctor played great Jazz Guitar and the other Doctor looked outstanding as she sang mainly Jazz Standards. Other talented members of the band were a trumpet player, A bass player and a Percussionist.  They were terrific and so was the air conditioning.

I had such a good time at the Jazz Cabaret that I decided last Tuesday to go to see a Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band, called "Yesterdays Gone" on the north Side of Bethlehem at the Zinzenplatz Staqe.  Unfortunately for me I was cheap enough to decide not to pay the 10 dollars to ride the bus from the South Side of Bethlehem to the North Side of the City where the concert was .  I forgot, for the moment, that I am 83 Years old and I recalled the good old days when it was no big deal for me to walk across the bridge over the Lehigh River To get to the North Side Musikfest Stages.  When I was Halfway across the Bridge I realized that I had made a big mistake and after briefly watching what I could see and hear of the band I figured I had better head back across the bridge again.  I made it back to my car without being hospitalized but just barely.  God, how I missed that Air Conditioned Jazz Cabaret.

After my disastrous experience on Tuesday night I decided to watch the rest of Musikfest on TV at my home on the Service Electric  Cable Network that was broadcasting 3 different Musifest channels during Musikfest.  Although it wasn't quite as exciting as actually being at Musikfest, It was air conditioned and I was able to see and hear the festivities fine on my TV Set.

I had a lot of great Family Times at Musikfest in the past.  I missed that this year.  But as I look back through my memories of Musikfest I am impressed by the fact that in this strange and desperate time we are living through when it is difficult and sometimes nearly impossible to get through the day without a feeling of dread about what is happening in our country and in the world there are still some wonderful things happening.  One of those wonderful things is Musikfest.

Musikfest has been providing this incredible Free Music Festival for over Forty Years and it has always been incredible.  It is extremely well organized and seems to have a dedicated group of Volunteers who return to serve their neighbors at Musikfest year after year. This year I heard of a  couple who formerly lived in Bethlehem but moved to Florida.  This couple volunteered at Musikfest when they lived locally and still return from Florida every year to volunteer at Musikfest.

Although I have seen countless really great Performances at Musikfest There are a few that really stand out in my memory. Crosby, Stills and Nash cost money but they were worth every penny.

Believe it or not The Everly Brothers played at Musikfest for Free in the early days of Musikfest and although they had a little difficulty hitting the high notes on some songs They were Historic.

Speaking of Historic I will never forget walking around Musikfest one year back in the Eighties and hearing this group rocking out sounding like they invented Rock and Roll.  When the band took a break I began  to talk to the guys in the band and found out that the band was called "The Sun Rhythym Section" and was made up of only musicians who had played on Sun Recording Sessions with the likes of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.  They had, in fact, invented Rockabilly Music.

The truth is that I know that there are already too many people who attend Musikfest and I am not anxious to see a lot more people showing up in Bethlehem at Musikfest time.  But I also feel as though Musikfest is such a special gift to those of us who live in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania that it is only right to share this Magical Musical Experience with our Brothers and Sisters in America.

So if you missed Musikfest this year do yourself a favor and plan to be in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania next August to enjoy the incredibly American Experience of Musikfest.  I promise you that you won't regret it.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher  

     

The (Character) Assassination Of Dr. Anthony Fauci

My Dear America:

This past week Senator Rand Paul and his Band of Republican Bootlickers brought Dr. Anthony Fauci in for a Senate Republican Committee Ambush and Smackdown by some of the poorest excuses for Legislators that I have seen in some time..  Although Dr. Fauci appeared a bit haggard having endured Extensive and Continued Verbal Bashing by Dr. Rand Paul and other Republicans on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs for a considerable period of time he was ready for the Republican Onslaught.  Thank God for the good sense of the members of the Biden Administration to Pardon Doctor Fauci prior to the beginning of the Trump Administration.

Certainly the main reason that Dr. Fauci was dragged before the Senate Committee that was chaired by Rand Paul was to have him testify so that the Republicans could use his testimony to trap him and somehow use his testimony against him.  Dr. Fauci was ready for the Republicans, however.  He first of all read a prepared statement which indicated that he knew full well what Rand Paul and his Republican Cronies were up to and following his prepared statement he answered every question he was asked by members of the Senate Committee by utilizing his Fifth Amendment Privilege.

Clearly back during the First Trump Administration when Covid spread like wildfire across America and the world and nobody was prepared for it, Donald Trump and many Republican Legislators were big fans of Dr. Fauci.  Dr. Fauci was the Expert who everybody in the Government and, indeed in the country was depending on and had been depending on for several Decades  Back then when nobody seemed to know what in the hell to do next about Covid. Dr. Fauci recommended Wearing masks, avoiding contacts with other Human Beings and when the vaccines were available Dr. Fauci recommended that everyone get them.  All of this advice certainly seemed to make sense at the time and still makes sense.

Now, however, it seems that because Dr. Fauci might have been mistaken about what nobody knew at the time regarding where Covid came from and maybe some other problem guesses that he made, Republicans seem to be trying to make Dr. Fauci the scapegoat for what might have gone wrong with regard to Covid during the First Trump Administration.

The truth is that we were all lucky as hell to have Dr. Fauci on the job when Covid hit. For decades when we have been affected by strange and terrible killer viruses we have always had Dr. Fauci to advise us and help us through the difficult times.  Whether it was Aids, Ebola or Covid Dr. Fauci was there to advise us and give us his best guesses regarding what to do with regard to dangerous Pandemics.

I am certainly glad that Dr. Fauci was on the job for as long as he was.  It seems as though Dr. Rand Paul has taken great  pleasure in releasing transcripts of Dr. Fauci's Private diaries in which Dr. Fauci seems to reveal that he certainly got a kick out of being recognized for being on the front lines of Covid and had reason to be proud of himself for helping the United States deal with that awful Pandemic.  I have seen nothing, however, in Dr. Fauci's diary entries that shows that he is deserving of the threats and abuse he got in his Republican Beatdown this past week in the Senate.

Although most Republican Committee  Members seemed to be anxious to get into the abusive Republican Fauci Smackdown Session the people I saw who were the worst offenders were Senators Bernie (has nothing to say about his Daughter's abusive Congressman Husband) Merino, Josh (January Sixth Running Man) Hawley and  Joni Ernst.  These people were disgusting in their horrible treatment of the man who deserves nothing but positive credit and accolades for helping to get us through the worst pandemic of my lifetime.

I have certainly seen some incredible abuses of power in my time but I can't recall anything rising to the level of the nearly criminal behavior that this horrible spectacle showed to a man who has deserved nothing but respect but got none of it from the Republicans on this disgusting Runaway Committee.  

Although this hearing was on C Span and was probably not watched by many people I can only imagine the reaction of young people who might be considering becoming Physicians themselves watching this Republican Horror Show and thinking to themselves I would never want to endure something like what they are doing to Doctor Fauci.  And who could blame them.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher  

All You Need To Be A Republican Is To Admit That You Believe THE BIG LIE That Trump Beat Joe Biden In 2020

My Dear America:

As You are Well Aware, America, you have been A functioning Democracy For A Hell of a Long time.  Those of us who love you have been proud of the fact that every year for two Hundred and Fifty Years your Democracy and in particular your Elections functioned, for the most part, pretty well.  Certainly there were questions occasionally regarding Election functions and results.  When certain problems were discovered in the election system usually valiant and quick efforts were made by leaders and legislators to fix whatever the Election Problems were.

I think that it is fair to say that in my 83 Year old lifetime although there have certainly been some  problems and sometimes irregularities in the Election system  I don't recall any Presidents or even any presidential losers complaining and whining about the unfairness of the system in their elections like Donald Trump has continued to do.

Speaking as an American I just want to say that I am sick of Trump's whining about his problems with the election system.  He had no problems with the Election system when he allegedly won his election in 2016.  He also had no problems with the election in 2024 when Elon Musk paid people millions of dollars to register as Republicans in Pennsylvania and one of Musk's girlfriends has claimed that Musk told her that he manipulated the election in 2024 so that Trump Won.

Still Trump continues to whine about the 2020 Election being "Rigged."

Yes, President Trump.  You are right about the 2020 Election being rigged.  It was rigged and you were the one who was rigging it.  Unfortunately for you, although you were willing to trash the Constitution your Vice President was not willing to do so and you and your Right Wing "Patriot" Posse were unsuccessful in your efforts to steal the election from Joe Biden although you all tried very hard to do so.     

Our Country has a wide array of problems that can be laid at the feet of Donald Trump Including The Iran War,  Ice killing people in the streets of America in the name of Immigration Control,  Prices of everything skyrocketing, all for starters.

Clearly those of us who have not been cut in on the big road to riches in America are sick and tired of hearing about Donald Trump's problems. In particular his Election Problems.  We don't give a Damn about his problems.  While he and his Rich friends are doing fine the rest of us are afraid to see the prices rising in our country with regard to everything we consume including Gas and Food.

With all the actual problems we have all had these days Donald Trump had the audacity to demand Prime Time Coverage from the major Networks so that he could air his well worn grievances about the 2020 Election in Prime Time.  Although his Right Wing Syncophantic networks carried his prime time speech ABC and NBC did not carry the President's speech.  

CBS, a network that has shown an embarrassing amount of deference to Donald Trump recently apparently started to carry the speech but to their credit they interrupted the speech with some of the best of their correspondents challenging the credibility of what Trump was claiming about the 2020 Election.   Although I have had some serious Criticism about CBS recently I was very pleased with their coverage of Donald Trump's Complaint Night in Prime Time.  In my opinion although I was pleased with ABC And NBC not covering this embarrassing spectacle I was even more pleased with CBS truthfully taking Trump to task for lying his ass off in Prime Time.

What in the hell is wrong with you Republicans who refuse to react to the Lies that are coming out of Donald Trump's mouth every time he speaks?  You found the balls to criticize Barack Obama every time he did anything and throughout his eight years in the White House he never did anything that was even close to as embarrassing as what Donald Trump does every day.

I still recall the many Republican members of the House and Senate standing up on television on January 6th of 2021 like Lindsey Graham saying they had endured enough from Trump.  And then days afterward they were all once again back kissing Trump's Ass and trying to curry favor from him.

What is wrong with you Republicans?  

Is there no one in the party with a spine who can and will tell the truth about the Dictator with no clothes on.

We can all recall the savage epithets that were thrown by Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and others when they were running against Trump back in 2016 and had no use for him.  But these days every Republican who is in the House or the Senate or is being considered for a job in the Trump Administration is not allowed to be a Republican in Good standing if they tell the truth about the Election of 2020.

FOR GOD'S SAKE REPUBLICANS, HAVE SOME BALLS

JOE BIDEN WON THE 2020 ELECTION BY A WIDE MARGIN.

WE ALL KNOW IT.  iT ISN'T ANY SECRET AND YOU SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SAY IT ANY DAY AND EVERY DAY.

HOW CAN YOU REPUBLICANS LIVE WITHOUT A SHRED OF HONOR AS YOU CONTINUE TO PROP UP THE BIG LIE THAT DONALD TRUMP WON THE 2020 ELECTION.

I ALMOST FEEL SORRY FOR YOU REPUBLICANS.  BUT NOT QUITE.

HOPEFULLY YOU PEOPLE WILL GROW A SPINE SOON ENOUGH TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY BEFORE DONALD TRUMP COMPLETELY DESTROYS IT.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher       

 

 

Happy Fourth Of July To The Readers of Letters To A Lost Nation And To The Listeners Of Podcast for A Lost Nation

Friday July 10th, 2026 

My Dear America:

I have always loved celebrating the Fourth of July and on the 250th Anniversary of the beginning of The United States of America I was once again happily celebrating July 4th.  I was once again in Havertown (My Future Home Town) with some of my Favorite Family Members.

Although I know that all is not well in every American Family I find it necessary sometimes to simply concentrate on those Good Solid Refreshing Moments of Pleasure like swimming with my Daughters and Granddaughters on some of the Brutally Hottest Days of the Year 2026 and reflect on the Long Term rather than the Short Term History of the United States of America.

I love my Country.  I always have and always will.  I am saddened and depressed regarding the fact that we are currently being governed by a Madman and his band of Syncophants who have Hijacked America for purposes that most of us do not agree with.

A long time ago in 2008 I began to write a Blog that I called "Letters To A Lost Nation".

When I began writing my Blog I was hopeful that as I wrote about 2008 that I would be commenting on some Very Important Political History.  After all, the 2008 Presidential Campaign was pitting, on the Democratic side, a Black First Time Senator against A Woman Senator who had also been the First Lady living in the White House for Eight Years while her Husband was President of the United States.  Surely there was some Political History to be had in this incredibly important Political Race for the White House.

Whichever one of these two Candidates who won their shot to be the Democratic Contender for the Presidency in 2008 would certainly prove to be a Historic Candidate.

Hope was in the air in 2008.  Democrats had suffered through Two Terms of Republican President, George W. Bush.  It was now time for a Historic Democratic Candidate to take the reins of government and in the end Barack Obama did that with Style and Grace and waited patiently for Republican Members of The Congress to come to their senses and support him and the American Government.  Unfortunately, however Barack's hope for Unity with Republicans never really occurred.

What has occurred during the intervening years between Barack Obama's Administration and today's Trump Administration, however is an increasing division between Democrats and Republicans that has resulted in Donald Trump's return to the White House with a Vengeance and a Boldness which no longer hides Trump's readiness to milk the United States for all he can get out of it.

In July of 2020 as we prepared for the election in November of that year I decided to turn my Blog into a Podcast in order to do all I could to prevent Donald Trump from being re elected President in 2020.  I know that my Podcasts and Blog Posts did not have a great deal to do with Trump's Defeat in 2020 but I still felt good about the fact that I might have had some extremely minor influence regarding Joe Biden's 2020 defeat of Donald Trump for the Presidency.

As I write presently 18 Years after beginning my Blog and in the Sixth Year of my Podcast I have seen some interesting things occurring.

In the First and Second Year of Trump's Strange and Terrible return to the White House I have seen the numbers of my Blog Readers skyrocket.   Over the years I published my Blog I would be lucky if I got a total of a Hundred Blog Readers over the course of a month. Presently I am seeing at least 2000 and sometimes many more than that Read My Blog Posts over a monthly period.  

My Podcast traffic has also shown some small uptick in traffic but nothing close to the uptick in the Blog Traffic.

I still continue to do my Podcasts because I know that I have Friends and Family Members who continue to listen to the Podcasts with enthusiasm.  And Frankly I enjoy turning the Blog Posts into Podcasts 

I continue to do the Blog and Podcasts with the hope that what I am doing is at least doing something to help encourage America's return to its sense of Patriotic Responsibility.

We still have Newspapers like the New York Times which seem to be attempting to print the truth.  We also have MSNOW and their Hosts trying to get the truth out. Unfortunately, however we also have a number of Television Programs and Newspapers who cater to Right Leaning American Readers and Television Viewers and do not seem to reliably tell the truth to those Americans who depend on them for their news.

I have recently begun to follow the lead of my Blog Readers who I have noticed over a period of time appear to have begun to read not only the latest Blog Postings but also have begun to go back and read many earlier posts.  I have actually begun to do the same thing and as I have returned to some of the older posts I have realized that although I wasn't recognizing it at the time I have been writing what is, for the most part, a pretty detailed Political History of our time and quite frankly I am proud of what I have written and I am encouraged to continue to add to the Political History of the U.S.as time marches on into a new and hopefully more decent Political Climate.

To be honest as I see more Newspapers and Magazines fall by the wayside and more Podcasts and Blogs appear to be veering to the Right of Center I feel more compelled than ever to continue my Blog and Podcast.

I want to sincerely thank Blogspot and Spotify for their assistance in allowing me to freely use their platforms without ever throwing impediments in my way to alter or impede anything that I wanted to say regarding anything I wrote. I appreciate their granting me the Freedom to say whatever I wanted to say.  I also want to say that I greatly appreciate everyone who has supported me by reading my Blog and Listening to My Podcasts.  

I continue to hope for the best in America and as long as I can do it I intend to speak out truthfully as long as some Americans are willing to read my Posts and Listen to my Podcasts.

I thank all of those Americans participating in the "No Kings" Protests.  

I live in Hope that there are enough of us left who will vote in the future in an effort to Recapture Our Democracy before it is too late.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher