accomplishing responsibility requires understanding of what our responsibility is, and what it requires. for those who’ve reached a life-path, which is helping make this a better world, both now and for generations of the future, responsibilities come in several forms. to those who preceded us, we owe them the responsibility to educate today’s youth, with the lessons, memories, their accomplishments (in making this a better world for our generation – as well as for generations to come), their traditions, creating museums, history books, and other monuments to their legacy, etc., in their honor, they were and are the youth of the first pioneers who lived in this country. Honoring the ancestors of the native nations, the first people who lived in this country, is the responsibility of not only the present generation of native americans, it’s also the responsibility of the present pioneer nationalities. More children’s books, written and colorfully illustrated to teach the native folklore, traditions, accomplishments, educating today’s youth about those who helped improve life for generations ahead of them.
Responsibility also comes in in the form of carrying out the promises to accomplish what our parents generation intended, to fulfill their wishes. This responsibility may need to be accomplished through legal, court type, battles. For example, one of my responsibilities is to create a web page museum honoring my parents. When that’s accomplished, the collections of important and valuable memorabilia (from her, photo collections of growing up in Valdez, Alaska between 1921 to 1938, knowing the first ‘bush pilots’ of wilderness Alaska, a high school classmate of Alaska’s first governor [invited to his inauguration}, then her collections of things from secretarial school in Seattle, moving to Washington D.C., a single twenty-two year old, working as a Congressional Secretary, in D.C. {she could type over 120 words per minute, and equally skilled in shorthand}), as well as her collection of things passed along from her mothers generation; and him, the Tacoma Radio Club (WA) has all ready dedicated the Antique Radio Museum in his honor, he could send and receive morse code better than anyone in this country (he was in charge of developing the radio communication system for the U.S. Army Signal Corp. during WWII, while helping set-up the radio link from the Bearing Sea Battlefront [in the Aleutian Islands, by Japanese attacks] to the lower forty-eight states, while living in one of the six Radio Relay Stations located along the building of the AlCan Highway, then commemorated later in his civilian life for coordinating the Alaskan Catastrophic Disaster Radio Relay System (which still serves as the “model” used for first emergency radio relay from within a region struck by a catastrophic disaster to the outside – directing emergency need – used during all recent nature caused catastrophic disasters as well as those caused by humans). My great-grandfathers self-constructed home has been restored to original, by the University of Washington, and is now both a national and state recognized historical site (the house now is used as the headquarters for the Wetlands Interpretive Center for Washington – originally the home of Dr. Rueben Chase, Bothell, WA first physician, 1885). My grandmothers collections from pioneer days of the Las Vegas, Nevada are now part of the Clark County Heritage Museum in Boulder City, Nevada, she was the only female mortician in the country during her lifetime. Thus, the reason why it’s now a responsibility along my path in life to see to it a web site museum be established with a photo collection for display of all the things that will eventually be donated to the Heritage Museum in the Valdez, Alaska, Yukon Territory (where they both made history for their accomplishments, and have photo, newspaper, and memorabilia documented collections for display). Therefore, one of my goals to accomplish is to get done; however, an unexpected legal problem (caused by an attorney) has created an unexpected financial stoppage of funds that was intended, and was the wish of the deceased relative, to be used to accomplish this responsibility. Grievances, with the WA State Bar Association, have been filed against the attorney, an attorney has been hired to try and get justice, there are now four law firms, represented by eight attorney’s, and their staff, making claims for “legal procedures” against the estate; plus, the attorney’s involved with the Bar Association legal procedures. To make matters worse the estate was also suppose to help finance a nonprofit charity, created and IRS certified by a group of families who have a reported missing child. Therefore, another of my 43 Things, not necessarily in the order of importance listed on this web, is to accomplish responsibility, which has directed my life-path into a legal/court nightmare; which, in my opinion (and supported by many, including an entire neighborhood and caretakers of my parents) the failure of a legal counselor to do their job in a responsible and ethical manner has created an entire legal process which has mushroomed into four law firms in a shark-like money grabbing feeding frenzy, sucking money out of an estate intended and expressed in the wishes of the deceased to be used to help others in need, decided by the the person intended to be the personal representative of the estate, in the last will and testament, signed in 2006, and was intended to revoke the 2005 Will (written six months previously). Whether of not the attorney failed to do their job intentionally or unintentionally doesn’t matter, their actions caused a sequence of events that should not be happening, their actions opened a legal fiasco, costing large amounts of estate capital intended to help those in need – and these attorney’s are not in need. I feel it’s part of my responsibility, and in order to accomplish what I feel are my responsibilities, is to warn others who are in similar situations, as our parent’s generation departs, to be sure their estate plans are properly executed. And, to be wary if sudden unexpected legal procedures and charges start occurring. Legal counselors have an ethical responsibility to have all legal documents in order, according to the wishes and intent of the person who hired the attorney. Does anyone know if a personal representative is appointed, by a probate judge, determined by a Will, then a more recent Will intended to revoke the earlier Will is presented and the first Will is contested, the probate judge accepts the contesting and assigns it to court, does the person appointed personal representative because of the contested Will have the right to continue distributing personal property and assets? It seems if the first Will is contested the personal representative should be suspended until after a court decision is made. Does anyone know the legal ruling on this? If I get the correct information it might help me accomplish my goal to accomplish responsibility.
