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"When a nation goes down ... one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from" - Carl Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet - American Minute with Bill Federer
American Minute ^ | June 12, 2022 | Bill Federer

Posted on 06/15/2022 5:20:43 AM PDT by Perseverando

"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision," stated poet Carl Sandburg in an interview with Frederick Van Ryn of This Week Magazine (January 4, 1953, p. 11.)

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Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878, to Swedish immigrants who worked on the railroad. After 8th grade, Carl Sandburg left school, borrowed his father's railroad pass, and traveled the country as a hobo.

Carl Sandburg volunteered for military service, was sent to Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War, and then attended college on a veteran's bill.

Carl Sandburg wrote children's fairytales, called Rootabaga Stories, and mused of his wanderings in American Songbag.

Carl Sandburg wrote in Remembrance Rock (1948, ch. 2, p. 7): "A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."

He continued: "A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life. If a bad fire should break out in this house and I had my choice of saving the library or the babies, I would save what is alive. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo plants, don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devices and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.

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TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: americanhistory; americanminute; sandburg
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1 posted on 06/15/2022 5:20:43 AM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

When a nation goes down it is because people forgot from WHOM they came.


2 posted on 06/15/2022 5:31:17 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: Perseverando

Beautiful post!


3 posted on 06/15/2022 5:41:55 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: stars & stripes forever
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to Spiritual Truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative prime minister of Britain in 1868 and 1874-80. Of Sephardic Jewish descent, he was born on Dec. 21, 1804; in 1817 his father, the writer Isaac D'Israeli, converted the entire family to Christianity.

4 posted on 06/15/2022 5:43:44 AM PDT by LouAvul (Complacency is the enemy of courage.)
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To: Perseverando

Soooo..... in a nutshell DemonRats are life killers.


5 posted on 06/15/2022 5:44:56 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Perseverando

“Who controls the past controls the present’’.
‘’.
“Who controls the present controls the future’’.


6 posted on 06/15/2022 5:45:18 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Perseverando
"When a nation goes down ... one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from" -

Amen to that! We have allowed the left to make everything about our ancestors and our past to be evil. We need to proudly reclaim who and what we are.

7 posted on 06/15/2022 5:49:15 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Perseverando
"Carl Sandburg"...brings back memories.

As a youth, I attended Carl Sandburg Jr HS in Mundelien Illinois. Sitting in class one day, admin made an announcement over the speaker...President Kennedy had been shot.

Years later, the wife and I visited the Carl Sandburg home in Flat Rock, NC.


8 posted on 06/15/2022 6:06:09 AM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova

I’ll have to visit the home. I grew up knowing about Sandburg, as he was friends w/ my grandfather, a librarian. Through my grandfather, Sanburg inspired deep historical appreciation in all of us in the family.


9 posted on 06/15/2022 7:37:34 AM PDT by nicollo (the rule of law is not arbitrary)
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To: LastDayz

The Democrats are just a symptom. Once we’ve pushed faith in God out of our schools, our homes, our government and out of our culture, all types of evil come in.

And worse is to come.

ONLY revival by repentance, and honest ‘turning again to God’ will save America.


10 posted on 06/15/2022 7:48:41 AM PDT by InkStone (Omni Vivum Ex Surfboard)
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To: nicollo

I don’t remember a lot about it. Been thru a number of “famous” homes, and they’ve all run together in the memory banks. LOL


11 posted on 06/15/2022 8:19:26 AM PDT by moovova
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