Posted on 03/14/2009 2:03:28 PM PDT by joygrace
HR 1388, will hit the House floor on Tuesday.It is called the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act (The Give Act.) The House is scheduled to Rule this week. Sponsored by Democrat Representative Carolyn McCarthy (NY), Education and Labor Committee. The objective is to reauthorize and reform the national service laws.
Democrat Rep. McCarthy is sponsoring the bill with 25 co-sponsors, ALL Democrats, including Charlie Rangel. Need I say more.
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education.
They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged:
“For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor”.
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War.
We didn’t just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted.....we shouldn’t.
You may want to use your ping list for this...
Sounds like a Commie to me...:0/
Not really, but what's the difference? This is straight from the Nazi party line. It's amazing how repubs and conservatives get slandered as the Nazis in this country.
Can you add another to your rapidly growing ping list :)
Add me too.
His reign is about over, as soon as he lose a mandate with the people his followers in congress will get weak kneed and it will be over.
‘What about our kids?
As Gen. Patton said “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”’
I think you’ve missed the General’s point. And you have taken it out of context. As well, don’t leave out the importance of the second sentence of this quote.
Women take care of the kids—men do the fighting, as it has always been. I’m not, at all, a feminist so don’t bother me with your whining about “fighting” women. In the s**t of it, a women is way out of place.
I’d spend the rest of my life in prison first!
No worky
Linky no worky.
When we can’t read the bill; why is there a vote.
“I think you’ve missed the General’s point. And you have taken it out of context. As well, don’t leave out the importance of the second sentence of this quote.”
Where the heck did you get women in that quote? Nothing is taken out of context. You said you had chosen to die. I’ve chosen to fight and think others should too.
So take your midol and perhaps you won’t react so unhinged next time.
LOL,,,True Dat,,,
Lotta pozin’ goin’ on there,,,
Note you don’t see any black rifles...;0)
Does not work.
and no, I was not being sarcastic, however I realize that anything unconstitutional hasn't slowed down this administration.
they will force my children to serve when and if i run out of ammo. mandatory service is slavery and it is prohibited by the constitution.
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