Posted on 09/30/2017 9:19:03 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
"The Man Without A Country", a short story, written by Edward Everett Hale, in 1863, as the Civil War was raging It is about an Army officer that has committed treason during the Revolutionary War, and has shouted out, before sentencing after being convicted, that he wishes, no longer, to hear any mention of the United States of America.
He gets his wish as the judge sentences him to life in prison to be served aboard only USA, navy ships that never touch the shores of the USA. He comes to love the USA...but no one will talk to him about her. On his death bed many years later, he invites a navy sailor into his jail room, who finds the American Flag draped around a photo of George Washington and a painting of an American Eagle with a lightening bolt flashing over its head. A friend comes to his room and sits on the bed telling him the stories and progress of his now, beloved USA!!! Every NFL, NBA, MLB "America Hater> should read this magnificent short story...that motivated the UNION cause of ending slavery and keeping the USA united. and...these fools should also read over & over again....Lincoln's magnificent, Gettysburg Address.
Today....the NFL, the NBA and the MLB are all men without a country, IMHO...shame on everyone of them!!! Pathetic, Hateful, Obamabot/Clintonite Human Beings. God forgive them, for I certainly won't!!!
And they need to learn to cook their corndogs!
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Really great story, thanks for this post.
You can read it online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15868/15868-h/15868-h.htm
And that Commie West Point graduate Rapone!!!
The movie is on YouTube. I for one would like to ship them to cuba and watch the cops tell the black players they were pulled out of the trees and had their tails cut off.
I read this in Hollywood’s favorite dictator.
I’m not sure the story would have quite the same pathos if the protagonist had had an IQ of 63.
“The Man Without a Country” is a great story—I read it in junior high school. The protagonist, Philip Nolan, was a real person—a horse trader and freebooter on the Spanish frontier who had some wild adventures before dying in a firefight with Spanish troops while on a filibustering expedition in Texas in 1801.
These NFL Clowns are not really dummies, just idiots and buffoons, being led to the slaughter by their so-called leaders, Black Racists, Obama, Clinton & the Democrat Party!!!
Same with Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery". Absolutely chilling but, in this world, you never know...
NFL player read ? Come on, these guys are idiots but should we really be making fun ?
NFL players read . . . . that’s a good one !!
A friend comes to his room and sits on the bed telling him the stories and progress of his now, beloved USA!!! Every NFL, NBA, MLB "America Hater should read this magnificent short story...that motivated the UNION cause of ending slavery and keeping the USA united. and...these fools should also read over & over again....Lincoln's magnificent, Gettysburg Address.
Great vanity ... Thanks for sharing.
If someone can still be moved by it more than fifty years after reading it, there is much to be said for the piece.
Second that emotion. Very moving.
Absolutely one of the writings every American should read.
The Union was motivated by money and the northern mill owners who wanted the cotton
Here it is in audio:
https://archive.org/details/manwithoutacountry_1304_librivox
The NBA commissioner has announced that the NBA players will stand respectfully during the anthem or be disciplined. Apparently the basketball commissioner has bigger balls to work with than the NFL.
I agree with you...if ain’t the jazz and hip hop, these not-so-bright-gentleman don’t even know it exists. I know more about slavery then these folks will ever have a clue about. That Obama guy that they so worship, ain’t got a clean rap sheet, Obama did more things to keep African-Americans on his economic slavery plantation, the all the other Presidents in USA history.
Remember, Obama was birthed in Hawaii, by a long line of active, Radical, Muslim, Kenyan Slave & Sex Traffic Traders in east Sub-Sahara Africa. His birth father was a radical terrorist against the United Kingdom, a serial, abusive womanizer and a helpless drunk that killed himself in his own caused auto accident. What a guy...just the type that would wildly joined in his NFL brothers, in their “KNEELING” gig, America Haters, all!!!
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