November 10, 2016

PERSONAL POWER, TREASURES GONE

Dear Mr. President, and To Whom It May Concern:

Congratulations Mr. Trump, for winning the presidency.

After praying for all of us, to the GOD of my understanding, in total surrender to his will, I have renewed faith after the results of this election.

For I am sure that I am not the only one that has prayed for us and the world’s problems.

How do any of us know, that GOD may be using a person, such as yourself, to raise up, and to rebuild the American dream, in the hearts of Americans.

Certainly, it seems obvious to me that, on November 8^th, many with dimmed expectations that day, that GOD revealed the hearts of the free Americans, and GOD overcame once more, again proving who is really in charge.

Living in this great country, all my life, growing up in poverty, having resources of an auto junkyard, and a town dump next door, and my most prized possessions came mostly from putting together used parts and other people’s throw away items, mixed in with their garbage.

I watched my Dad working 2 to 3 manual jobs, just to feed my siblings and myself.

I am 61 years old now, and have struggled to survive my own problems with experience of hardships, certainly with no “silver spoon” in my mouth.

Early in my adult life, there was tragedy, after my closest brother’s death in Viet Nam, then an auto accident that blinded me, leaving me totally dependent on the people in my life, and the country I live in.

Besides this, I finally had to admit that I had a disease that was taking me down, quickly.

This dependency, and control of my well being, started pressing hard on me, to turn my life in a different direction, totally.

That GOD, by allowing this hardship, knew that I would change my life for my own reasons, and not on the reasons of controlling people.

Digging out of dependency, and dis-functionality, I believe that the GOD that I believe in, the GOD that built this country, started opening doors for me, and gave me opportunities for adaptive equipment, then the time to learn it.

Overall, feeling like I was in a deep trench, I have a passionate drive for independence, which has brought me to this point, a Technology Instructor for the blind and physically handicapped, basically, sharing my experience, strength and hope, in healthy fellowship, with people with disabilities, including many Veterans.

I once heard a sermon, referring to the Anthropic principal, that “GOD doesn’t waste anything”.

Having had that experience, with my upbringing, and making things work, I find it disgusting of our throwaway society, especially technology.

I have experienced, being promised 30 computers, that were no longer needed at the company I was working for, that I could use to get talking for other blind people, that they were to be crushed at the last minute and being told that they couldn’t give them to me, due to vulnerable information on the hard drives.

Personally, I don’t know anyone that would want the information on that company’s server, unless it was to prove corruption.

My letter went right to the CEO of the company called: “Treasures Gone”, that shook up that little company politically, on the inside anyway.

After I left, over 23 years of striving to be a leader of this company, a former employee/staff member, informed me that there is a policy in place that “blind people of the company, are not to advance to staff positions, still unbeknownst to the blind employees remaining there.

I have experience, also, as a blind employee of the above company, being flown to Washington, as a lobbyist for them, to participate in a 3 day affair, with very extravagant accommodations, to wait in long lines, to stroke an ego of a Congressman’s aid for a 5 minute meeting, ultimately to ask for money for our company. I was appalled of the amount of money wasted to lobby for gain of the company, and not the individuals working there,

I am now at another company, sharing my experience, strength and hope with others, in a restricted environment of a “not for profit” organization, that I am forced to teach very minimally, so that we may get onto the next one due to monetary standards.

Also, recently, I practically held back tears when it came time to upgrade to the latest operating system, just knowing that thousands of good working computers with Window’s 7, were going to be crushed, perfectly good working computers that could’ve been refurbished for others, safely, without information compromised.

I realize, deeply, that GOD has been working in my life personally, and has affected many people, in a positive way, with healthy fellowship, and even reaches beyond my restricted work environment.

I have the great opportunity to work itinerant, with Veterans, at their homes.

This has been very rewarding for me, and renews my patriotism with every story I hear.

Even though I had not had the opportunity to serve in the military, I feel a connection, having 4 older brothers, and younger sister serve, with losing our closest brother in Viet Nam.

But, in my experiences with training Veterans, I was shocked with the financial resources being wasted with adaptive equipment, that wasn’t wanted in the first place, or had been sitting so long without training.

In one case, a very expensive unit was sent, when all the Veteran wanted was the ability to finish his life story, to share with others before he died.

In this case, I was reprimanded for fixing his old computer, as he wanted, and then he gave his newer one, from the government to his housekeeper.

Incidentally, he has passed on, with a very successful life, starting as a legal immigrant, arriving in the United States from Italy, with nothing, onto a successful career and retiring from NASA.

I am freely sharing his story, with his permission before he died, with others, as it is inspirational to me.

Another Veteran, that knows of my training, asked me if I could train him, because his computer, from the VA, will not be ready until 9 weeks after his formal training at a remote VA training center, outside of his area. And, through our company’s policy, and agreement with the VA, I could not help him. He then expressed to me that I’m not going to remember anything they taught me by the time I get it.

I have found that “personal power”, under GOD’s principals, is much more effective in my life, than the government programs put into place.

Because of the adaptive equipment, there is such great potential, for people of disabilities, to have their own personal power to get out of themselves and to start contributing to society.

I will never forget, coming out of my shell, to the possibilities with a talking computer and my first email! An opportunity to finally interact with others. To me, this was a miracle of GOD that just kept opening doors, to this point.

My experience, strength and hope that I can share with them includes: leading by example, working for a living, paying, and being responsible for my own bills, purchasing items on line safely, and having them delivered right to my doorstep, or arranging transportation on line, or through an adaptive smart phone. Having products that can talk to us to identify our personal items, guide us with walking directions, write, and print and send letters, and read incoming correspondence.

Arranging and organizing our own responsibilities and household upkeep with programs and spreadsheets.

Communicating with others through email, twitter, and even video chat with a hand held device, along with numerous talking devices now.

To be able to join on line groups for common causes, giving and receiving training to each other, with even blind persons using remote access to help someone else across the country, that I have done many times.

To be able to build a web site, to always be there to help others.

And to be able to give a person the ability to be able to get out of themselves, which is the hardest, loneliest place I know,

To the point of helping and serving someone else that is in the same position that you were in, for who else, could better understand than the person that was there.

Teaching them to come out of a victim role, to a leadership role.

When I start teaching a client, the first thing I tell them is that they are going to do things for their own reasons.

What I can offer them is my experience, strength and hope, and to let them know that life is not over if they have a disability.

I thank GOD that we have the technology, in today’s age, to live as a free, independent American, and when I say independent, I mean, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

And that I would like to give them, is the ability to teach it to others

Right now, I am not concerned about being hacked with my personal, vital information, as I do, and teach, to keep all of my credential and financial information on an external, pass worded thumb drive, that cannot be hacked unless I leave it in my PC. This I am totally responsible for.

Mr. Trump, I heard you use the word “dream big”, and I’d like to share my dream with you.

I would love to share my abilities, with an American program, that be able to reach out to the disabled, restricted, an neglected people in our great country with adaptive equipment, and other centered services set up to help each other, as we are all in this together, under one blanket of GOD.

The “personal power”, that I was referring to, with the opening of this letter, is the personal connection between one person to another, in healthy fellowship, without government, or bureaucratic intervention.

To focus on simple, common sense solutions, under GOD’s structure of laws and principals, instead of “the love of power or money”, dictating what we can, or cannot give to one another.

Mr. President, I have come to love the saying:

“Say what you mean, and mean what you say”, and I try to do this in my own life. But this also, gives me hope in what you say that you can do for our country and all Americans as a whole, to improve our lives, to unleash our potential, to use our creativity, to serve one another, instead of this destructive division currently in our country.

To be able to lead by example, as you appear to do, and bring us together as “One nation, under GOD”, and this means, under GOD’S proper structure of principals and laws.

I will hold on to this hope for now, surrendering to GOD only, but if there is one thing I can pass on to you, as a brother, is a statement I picked up along the way and held on to is:

“The quality of my life is directly proportional to the commitments that I make and keep”

Mr. Trump, you say that we did it, we won this election.

Please, give us the opportunity to infiltrate this statement into our lives, and let us commit to one another, under GOD’S guidance.

I love GOD’S promises, from his word, and here is one that he has promised. Let us take heed.

Chronicles 7:14

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked Ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

As my GOD has informed me to do, “FOLLOW ME”, he has shown me that he was the ultimate servant, and he has provided me a path to get out of myself and to serve others.

As a child, I thought that GOD was restricted to that building that my mother made me go to every Sunday. Through the hardships in my life, and the deep trenches described by people that have GOD has allowed to cross my path, I found out that GOD is not restricted to a building.

I will end with lyrics of a song that came to me, as you were running you’re campaigned. A song from the 70’s called: I’m free, by The Who

I'm free-I'm free,

AN' I'm waiting for you to follow me.

If I told you what it takes

to reach the highest high,

You'd laugh and say 'nothing's that simple'

But you've been told many times before

Messiahs pointed to the door

And no one had the guts to leave the temple!

I'm free-I'm free

And freedom tastes of reality

I'm free-I'm free

And I'm waiting for you to follow me.

With you in the position that you are in now, maybe you can place us in a position of serving and helping others, under GOD’S guidance.

I will pray for you, and our country.

I thank you for being open to this possibility of leading our country, and for the spark of hope that so many now have.

Sincerely, Daniel Malone

54 Crooked Pine Rd.

Port Orange, Fl. 32128

585-739-9879

www.dan.from-fl.com

I am a staff member with “VFVC”, Veterans For Veterans Connection

President: Gene Sime, a man in which his passion inspired me to write this letter.

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