Like any military training course, Q tests you on three things:
- Do you possess the capability and capacity for the tasks in hand?
- Do you put the team goal before your own status and glory?
- Do you have the drive to keep going even when it is hard?

It has been a gruelling five years, and often very painful psychologically and spiritually, albeit comfortable physically. That said, I can now see that it's the minimum time it takes. We know who is really in this for the right reasons and we can depend upon, because everyone who "graduated" from "Academy #17 " overcame the tough obstacles.

The leaders of a reformed society won't be woke academics, greedy investors, or selfish lawyers. There is a total resorting of power and influence, and it really is a "meek inherit the world" moment. Only those who sought no personal reward for doing the right thing are worthy of the prize. That status will be fixed; no revisionist history will allow others to claim they stood for freedom.

I'm a terribly flawed man with a good heart. I'm here because I NEED to leave a better world for my children and grandchildren. A world which is not hell bent on subjugating all those who venture into it. And, as my great great grandfather used to pray every morning... for all the generations to come.

Oh and I have an almost pathological need to know the truth about everything, ;-)

Amen! So well said. I feel I am in the same camp--as many of us here on AU are. Infinite blessings to you and all our future generations!