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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1c0b5a" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'>We want to add our voices to the
numerous positive messages that are beginning to appear on this list. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1c0b5a" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1c0b5a" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'>We know that what has happened is devastating.
We know that some of our closest friends are angry and hurting right now. This
causes us pain, as well. Faolon and I LOVE this region and everyone in it. This
is our home. This has ALWAYS been our home. However, this is not the end.
Kingdom has agreed to do something unprecedented by holding the names &
devices of groups that are being dissolved in perpetuity, rather than only a
finite time, as is set down in law. Like a phoenix, our region can rise from
the ashes as something great and beautiful and powerful and new. We are the
WESTERN REGION! We are fighters, each and every one of us! We ARE survivors! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1c0b5a" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'>The history of this region cannot be
erased by the edict of one king. The Western Region, the Western Alliance, the
people of the western portion of the great state of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:State> will remain. We will always be who we
are. We have honor. We have dignity. We have strength. We have an undaunted spirit
that keeps us going, even through the toughest of times. No one can take that
from us. It has been the willingness of our people to selflessly rotate our
offices amongst ourselves that has kept us going and kept us unified as long as
we have. It is our friendship and love of one another that has made us one.
Just because the administrative borders are changing, we do not have to change
with it. We will remain what has made the Western Region a mighty force. We
will remain friends and family. Rizardo said it very well. The feeling among
the members of this region truly transcends that of family and friends. We are
something greater, something more amazing than anything Faolon or I have ever
before experienced. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1c0b5a" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1c0b5a" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'>Do not leave us, any of you. Jean-Marc
was correct. We need you. If this wound needs time to heal for you, take the
time you need, but return to us, strong and whole. And do not forget that we
are your friends and that we love you. Do not lose sight of that. Take this
incredibly unfair situation and use it to prove to the rest of the Kingdom what
we already know. That we are the most honorable, dignified, chivalrous and the most
united region in the kingdom, whether admin says we exist or not. Tell them
where they went wrong, but do it with dignity and honor, not anger and hurt. We
are all better than that. Prove it to them. We will have to take our hits and
call them good. Let’s use those blows to hone our skills and spirits into
something even better. It can be done. Already, the fervor this has caused has
created ripples that have brought long lost friends out in our support. It has
also inspired some of our new members to join our shield wall in defense of who
we are, though they are still just discovering it for themselves. Show them
what it means to be the Western Region.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1c0b5a" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'>Thank you for being our friends. Thank
you for giving us a family that we never thought possible. Know that we will
always be there for each of you.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1c0b5a" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'>In service to the greatest dream,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1c0b5a" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C0B5A'>Lord Faolon Muirchu & Lady Muirghein
MacKiernan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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