Posted on 07/03/2015 7:06:18 AM PDT by C19fan
This weekend we celebrate the Fourth of July, high holiday of American civic religion and universal occasion for cookouts, stars-and-stripes bikinis, and raucous displays of unbridled patriotism.
More than 200 years ago, however, there was no such unanimity on the subject of the American Revolution. Though our popular history tends to avoid such off-message details, about 15 percent of white American colonists during the Revolutionary War were loyalists, and perhaps more surprisingly, close to half were effectively neutral.
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“...Patriotism is dead...”
I don’t think it is dead...It just isn’t voiced as loud as in the past because of the way the media portrays things...
Still, there is patriotism inside of America, but we are growing older and don’t have the voice we used to have...
I strongly feel if and when the SHTF, patriotic Americans will again rise to the occasion....
I applaud Mr. Meyers valor.
I wonder though who we are fighting for or against these days and which side is our regime backing....cant be good.
then there was LBJ back in the day....he did not fight to win.....just keep fighting and dying! and Nixon would have fought to win but was hamstrung by congress.
WW 2 was the last war with an endgame...in my humble opinion.
IF we were born in this country, or came to live here many years ago, we were BLESSED by God..
...this has been an amazing country...
but not so much anymore....
I feel the life draining out of her....we've become a shallow,godless pathetic country....
I didn't vote for this...I work against it...I try to live a decent, moral, law abiding life...I pray..
Instead, my wife and I will be hanging out on our back deck grilling foods for friends and neighbors. Just another summer weekend around here.
I don't hate my country. But it's no longer the country I used to know. I served in the Marines and I still hold out hope that we will eventually find our way again. But things may still get worse before they get better.
The military doesn’t make policy in this country.
Funny I am kind of mentally numb these days watching the destruction of classical America and American culture on a hourly basis. I really don’t celebrate anything anymore and I really don’t get down about much either. It is like my body naturally producing Haldol™ to keep me semi sane.
show that you love the traditional America....
Have you listened to the group, Madison Rising, and their version of the National Anthem???
Just because they are a rock group, don’t turn them away...
The lead singer is a veteran (Navy corpsman)...
I’m 67 years old and Vietnam veteran and listening to them and watching their video got me fired up and excited all over again....
“The holiday is more like a wake”. Good comparison.
I am not proud of a lot of things done by government action. But then again, what national government is without sin? None of them. There’s honestly something good to be found about the sacrifices people make for my own country, and I don’t give a (&;&) about whatever the extreme libertarians or extreme leftists wish to see wrong with our country through their blood red lenses.
but as a citizen, I reserve the right to agree or disagree with the reasons for fighting...and if I disagree then deciding not to be in the service
if I was at the age to fight (I was much too old) after 9-11, I would have gladly fought. after a few years it just became another debacle as Bush decided to stop putting full effort into destroying Bin Laden and Al Qaeda and finish his daddy's war for him. I grudgingly backed him but was not happy with that.
after pearl harbor Dad joined the USMC and fought the Japanese in the south pacific. That was the good fight.
Yes, my late father was alongside yours and then also fought in Korea and Vietnam. I joined because I always expected to, but as I had “seen the sights” of the Marine Corps, I chose Army Intelligence instead. I went in during the Carter administration and although he made many mistakes, I never doubted that he was patriotic.
Some good points.
The consequences of not winning the Revolution might not have been all that horrible. We might have wound up as a really, really big Canada.
There are much worse fates.
As several Loyalists, and I believe even Franklin, pointed out, if the colonies stayed with Britain their influence in the Empire would inevitably increase as the balance of population, wealth and power shifted. We’re a continent, UK is a couple of islands.
I’d use a Gadsden flag, or even the bicentennial (13 stars in a circle). The 50-star flag hardly heralded a golden age for the US.
I’d use a Gadsden flag, or even the bicentennial (13 stars in a circle). The 50-star flag hardly heralded a golden age for the US.
The 48 star flag is the best. That’s when the USA peaked as a nation. Once that 50th star got sewed on, it was all downhill from there.
Madison rocked the Anthem!..Good on them!
“FOR THOSE UNAWARE....THE FLAG IS STILL THERE!!!
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