Liberia: Memo to the President - Birthday Gift Masses Await

29 October 2012
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Your Excellency!

It is a pleasure, once again, to join thousands if not millions of Liberians and non-Liberians to wish you Happy Birthday. Your contribution to your country, Liberia, and the role you have played on the world stage, testifies to the fact that your birth to Planet Earth wasn’t a mistake by Providence but a blessing. You have your gray areas, and you will never be a perfect being. But your struggle for the rights of ordinary people, and particularly for Liberians, something that visited bruises to your person, remains indelible in the annals of history. You have made your name. Your family is proud. Liberians are proud. And well-wishers outside our borders are also proud.

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