2017 New Birth of Freedom Award: Sheri Dew

"Imagine if today in our country, our common enemy was not each other. Our common enemy was not that we don't see everything the same way. What if our common enemy was tyranny and terrorism and perhaps anything that assaults the human spirit. Imagine if there weren't a constant, almost feverish scramble for headlines, or soundbites, or the most pithy social media posts, or some kind of self-promotion. Imagine if what we really cared about most of all was building lives and saving lives. There are a lot of ways to save lives."

[@Andy-ty2ni]

you speak to motivation...quite correctly! As a recipient of open heart surgery myself...i am profoundly grateful for the advent of this surgery and i can say there is nothing matter of fact about having it done to me!