Posted on 01/08/2021 8:12:05 AM PST by Starman417
My earliest memory of being an American was when I played Abraham Lincoln in the bicentennial play at Braddock Elementary School in Annandale, VA. I don’t remember much other than my fake beard and the top hat and everyone in the school had matching red, white and blue bicentennial tee shirts. I didn’t exactly understand the concept of nation, but I understood that I was somehow connected to Lincoln and the Founding Fathers on that stage.
From there I went on to spend the formative years of my life living in the American base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. It was as close to Americana as you could get… this was back in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Our 4th of July parades were spectacular. They involved everything from tanks to horses to 57 Chevy convertibles with pretty girls waving. The parades were followed by a day of adventure on the midway with cotton candy, motocross races and karate tournaments, all topped off with a concert and fireworks. You couldn’t help but feel like you bled red, white and blue there.
After college, I enlisted in the Army for two years and served in West Germany as a company clerk and Battalion Commander’s driver. While there I was part of the honor guard who would bury American soldiers who died there, almost all of whom were WW II veterans who had married German women. It was always heartbreaking when you would hand that folded triangle of the flag to the family…
But despite all of that, the sad truth is, for the first three decades of my life I knew I was an American but never had to think about it and what it meant. I didn’t really understand it. I’d been taught American history, particularly as a Political Science undergrad, but I had studied to pass the test rather than actually learn the information. It was only after September 11th that I began to focus on that identity, that history and began to understand what it really meant.
I discovered for the first time exactly how courageous men like John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were. I discovered for the first time exactly how groundbreaking the American Constitution really was. For the first time I really appreciated the fundamental difference between a Republic and a Democracy, between a nation of laws vs. a nation of men. Perhaps most of all, I stopped taking for granted the freedoms we have, the Constitution itself and finally began to understand exactly how fortunate Americans are in an extraordinarily flawed world. For the first time I recognized that the ideas in the Declaration of Independence were not natural to man, that the rights articulated (and implied) in the Bill of Rights were not present everywhere at all times, like gravity… Intellectually I’d known all this, but in my heart I’d never really felt it. It’s funny… freedom and liberty turn out to be like so much else in life, we often don’t recognize their value, their importance until we are faced with losing them.
While September 11th slowly faded into the shadows over the last two decades my new-found appreciation for freedom never waned and indeed my reverence for the font of our liberty, the Constitution, grew day after day. But I was still blind. Not to the gifts fortune had bestowed on America and Americans, but rather to the ignorance of a growing number of Americans about those gifts and what goes into keeping them. My guess is it has to do with war… As the generations of soldiers and citizens who fought in WWII, Korea, Vietnam and lived through the Cold War age and die, what’s left are Americans who’ve only really known mostly peace and prosperity and have only the vaguest of ideas where it comes from and how to protect it.
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Took down old glory that morning. See my tag line.
The Republic died on January 20, 2009 when BOTH parties swore in the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia.
Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.
They ALL knew.
I think you could go all the way back to January 20, 1989.
Stupid? Maybe. But this is a thought out and planned implementation.
Marxist is more like it.
I replaced mine with the Betsy, although I think the Bennington (spirit of 76) will soon take its place. Other flags as seen near the Washington Monument include the Pine Tree (Appeal to Heaven), scores of Gadsens, and a shot of a trio in revWar costume carrying the Bunker Hill flag. Intriguing. Was this a Bunker Hill moment? Lost the battle but hope to win the war?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of a major U.S. business group that represents 14,000 companies including Exxon Mobil Corp, Pfizer Inc and Toyota Motor Corp urged senior U.S. officials to consider removing President Donald Trump from office after supporters of the outgoing president stormed the U.S. Capitol.
National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons said Trump “incited violence in an attempt to retain power, and any elected leader defending him is violating their oath to the Constitution and rejecting democracy in favor of anarchy.... Vice President (Mike) Pence, who was evacuated from the Capitol, should seriously consider working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to preserve democracy.”
See my tagline!:
If Trump had followed Reagan we might have stood a chance.
At least GHW Bush, Bubba Clinton and GW Bush were natural born citizens, they completely abgrogated the Constitution when they swore in the Kenyanesian Usurper.
They can starve the GOP party of donations, and when we take back the house we can do what is right.
You could even say it began when the fraud was legitimized in 1960, as that elected someone who talked a big game about being anti Communist, but turned out to be that real disappointment regarding the Bay of Pigs and other such things. And when he was assassinated in 1963, that allowed that very bad person to assume the Presidency.
Later.
Yep.
Bingeaux. That is when the Deep State stopped trying to hide.
And now we are stuck with an unindicted criminal as President, and another non-natural born citizen as Vice-President (soon to be President).
Somebody commented to me the other day on here that it started around the time of H Hoover. Probably so. (See tag line)
Well ,I for one have not given up the ships, as the weak kneed RINOS have. Freedom is not free . Sometimes you have to fight harder for it. This is just the beginning. Sides have been chosen. Next step is to get a new political movement in motion. No more waiting to see what your elected official may or may do.
The rise of Noxious Nixon began this whole thing or one might even go back to good ol’ Woodrow Wilson
I would suggest that Obama was only the initial Terminal Cancer Diagnosis.
The real kick in the gut came when so many of our elected representatives on 6 Jan proudly certified this sham of an election, and as such openly placed their insane hatred of Donald Trump over Love of Country .
From the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes, this seems an appropriate message to those politicians, “You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
bump
Well, it is standing, and we are screwed. I believe, truly, that the Dominion voting machines and the software used in them should be outlawed in the US. During the Georgia vote count, the damned machine took away votes from Perdue and gave them to the opponent. On air, just like on election night in November, where Trump votes disappeared and reappeared as Biden votes. They do it in front of our own eyes; and, yet, we still hear the chorus of "there is not evidence of fraud".
They used the IRS to disrupt and get rid of the Tea Party Movement, with help from Republicans. Now they use fraudulent voting machines. Hard to see the fraud when it is going on inside the machine. They were successful in killing the Tea Party movement; and, they have been successful in killing the MAGA movement.
I am in a state of despair.
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