When it is difficult to know where to begin, there are likely many to thank. So, I will begin with those who would likely be disappointed, if they were not included.
- Although both are deceased, it is my parents who made me possible and provided me with what I needed to obtain a good start in life. Special thanks to my mom who taught me how to spell and cook, and to my father who encouraged in me the art of critical thinking and debate like no one other in my lifetime, and especially for that one time when a heavy gust of wind blew in a very high place and he let his hat go rather than me.
- Thanks to my older brother who when my parents were away was an absolute dictator, but one day stood up to a bully who threatened me and pounded him into the ground. He, too, is deceased, but my familial roots are quite remarkable. Take my grandmother on my father's side, for example, who married three times to insure that each of her three children, each the progeny of a different father and husband, always had a father in the home.
- Thanks to my “little” younger brother, who made it possible for me to hear my mother's final heart beat and final, but frightening expiration.
- Thanks to my best friend, Prof. Dr. Peter P. Baron, who has remained steadfast since we first met in Tōkyō, Japan during a job interview in 1995 or thereabouts and more recently provided me — where no other banker would — badly needed financial relief to make this project possible.
- Thanks to my several friends who took me in while I was homeless in my own homeland and provided me with badly needed encouragement to pass through the ordeal including Chris Barnett whose valuable knowledge of IT was provided at no charge and greatly facilitated my ability to host a sophisticated web-application.
- Thanks to Jeffrey Way, the founder of the Laracasts team, whose 30-day course on the Laravel framework took me 82 days to complete, but has since become the code foundation for this website. And, special thanks to those at the Laracasts forum who provided their counsel free of charge when Grok was simply incapable of generating a workable solution on its own.
- Thanks to the great support that I have received at HostPapa who hosts this site and makes it possible for you to visit it and make optimal use of its many features.
- Thanks to all of the anonymous online contributors from whom Grok regularly gleans its information, and who have made it possible for me to write what would otherwise never have been written. And, thanks to X for creating Grok that regularly congratulates me for my patience as we struggle together to sift through the endless noise that Grok has become in its quest to become more human-like in its response to human users.
- Thanks to the American taxpayer, the Missionary Sisters Of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Archdiocese of Seattle, and United Markets for providing me with a residence and thereby necessary office space required to make the Mt. Cambitas project possible.
- Thanks to those who reviewed the author's message -- what will likely never be read by most who visit the Mt. Cambitas website, but will likely be vital to those who frequent it.
- Thanks to all of those who both intentionally and unintentionally, sometimes maliciously and sometimes generously have contributed to the decisions that I have made in life and that ultimately led me to the decision to create the Mount Cambitas website including Ralph Görlach, whose book I translated from German into English and whose English translation has yet to be published several years later. Indeed, it is the many ironies in life, that make life worth living when holding on seems so incredibly difficult.
- And finally, I give thanks to everyone who makes use of this website and does his utmost to insure that the message of Mt. Cambitas is spread far and wide. For without your support We, the People, will never make it to the summit of the one mountain that we all need to climb, in part or in full, but always in the same direction — that of a real money supply.
The world is filled with good people, but many have lost their way since our nation's founding. Climbing to the top of any mountain requires personal sacrifice and perseverance. It is not something many of us can do on his own, but it is a sacrifice that most can manage with the proper leaders. Who will step up? Is it you? It will not be easy, but it will be the most rewarding task that you will have ever achieved.