Daily Prompt : "What is the last thing you learned?" March 7, 2026

 

What is the last thing you learned?

Is this a trick question?

I have yet to have learned my ‘last’ thing.

I am alive.

The last thing we all will learn is,

“This is going to be a bummer.”

Then we die, Campers.

However ….

If the question is focused on what the last thing learned in the ‘academic’ sense was, which I believe was the asker’s intention, then the response should be academic.

Earlier today I was watching a documentary about the history of building the railways in North America.

Campers, I am glad that today’s Daily Prompt has given me the opportunity to share an extremely interesting, informative and important piece of North America’s recorded history with you.

Something I think we should demand that Trump and all his Administration sit and watch.

Campers, this blew me away …

“The four major railways being built required an enormous work force.

Lumberjacks and road builders to clear the path for the tracks, track layers to lay the rails, surveyors, architects, business leaders and all the support workers who built the towns and cities along the way.

HERE IS THE LESSON I LEARNED …

The States and Canada were new,

So …

“Where did that enormous work force come from?”

“IMMIGRANTS“

THEY WERE ENCOURAGED TO COME TO NORTH AMERICA WITH THE PROMISE OF A BETTER LIFE AND CHEAP LAND!

And come they did, Campers. Come they did.

Tens of thousands of immigrants arrived month after month.

From Ireland, China, Italy and from all corners of the world.

The railways gave them a deal they would have been fools to refuse.

If they worked a few years they would receive 160 acres of choice land at the cost of a $10 “Registration Fee”.

It began first in the United States under “The Homestead Act of 1862″.

Then, in Canada a decade later under “The Dominion Lands Act of 1872″.

There were a few rules, sensible and gladly adhered to.

The most important one being that they had to build a home upon it and farm a percentage of their 160 acres.

They were forbidden to sell their land for the first three years for the Canadians and the first five years for the Americans.

After that period was passed they could sell the land, for a profit, if they wished.

It was their land after all. A just “reward” for building not one, but two great nations.

My family came to North America as Irish slaves in 1833.

Their struggles and sacrifices built my world.

CAMPERS,

REMEMBER I TELL YOU THIS…

“WHETHER OUR FAMILY’S ARE AMERICAN OR CANADIAN, AT SOME POINT IN THE EVOLUTION OF OUR CLANS WE WERE AND ALWAYS WILL BE ….

“IMMIGRANTS”.

“Wouldn’t it make America great again if Trump and his Cartel were to understand that if not for immigrants our nations would not exist?“

“Maybe then hey would shutter ICE in a deep, deep, very deep freezer never to surface again”