*HUGS*
Your grandad and I are in accord - you could raise your voice in prayer in public - and in public schools, no less.
The United States stood proudly and powerfully against the Evil Empire. Dwight D. Eisenhower was President. It was the beginning of the greatest period of economic expansion in the history of the World. Our ancestral homes in Europe rose from the ruins of war under the umbrella of American Might and Right.
There are many other facts I could cite - mid-20th century - the apex of America.
2014? Lots of work to do if we seek to measure up to our parents and grand-parents!
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 America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi! |
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O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)