This is big. The history of America (as opposed to simply “American history”) is a fabulous story in spite of the many bumps encountered along the way. It is a history of which to be proud to have inherited, to be a part of preserving, and to be a part of creating for future generations. [...]
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Please see the note at the bottom about the origin of this poem. Regardless of the true origin, it’s a beautiful thought and worthy of preserving.
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside [...]
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A woman thinks enough of America to immigrate here, is offended by the flying of the American flag, so the employer chooses to instead offend the patriotic employee by ordering the flag down. Huh?
McLucas, a supervisor at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield, Texas, had displayed the 3-by-5-foot flag in the office she shares with the hospital’s [...]
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I am a proud son of the Greatest Generation — those people who endured and brought us out of World War II and into prosperity as truly the greatest nation the world has ever known. My father, like the parents of most of my friends, served in WW2 and there can be no doubt that [...]
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Hell yeah! And what a trip it’s been getting here (in another month or so, for me). I unashamedly quote from an email by my friend Don who set out exactly what it means to the group now reaching the mid-sixties. I could not have said it better — even if I could have remembered [...]
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Freedom isn’t free. Not now, never in the past, and never in the future. I grow increasingly weary of an ungrateful vocal minority hogging the media landscape in this time of our nation’s unique war against a faceless and stateless enemy that is already spread throughout the world and within our own borders and institutions. [...]
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Check out this link with your sound up for a clip on Carlos Hathcock.
Carlos Hathcock was an ace sniper during Vietnam, and his shot into an enemy sniper’s scope was portrayed in the movie “The Sniper.” Read more about him on WikiPedia.
An awesome story. Make me wonder if all men are truly created equal. He [...]
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This comes from the ParMedia — Participatory Media site. I have this friend who sends me a bunch of stuff (you know who you are) and I just skim over a lot of it. This piece, however, I’ve read several times already. Yeah, I’m a full-fledged patriotic, hawkish kind of guy — and pround of [...]
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(this ‘piece’ was originally written on my church website, but I thought I’d start a place to discuss it here, given the timeliness of these events).
These comments are in no way intended to be political, but merely on
the occasion of the successful elections in Iraq to repeat the
oft-offered appreciation for those who serve in our [...]
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