Quotes:
“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to...its office holders.” -Mark Twain (1835-1910); [Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
“Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.” -Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941); Founder Of The Boy Scouts
“It is better to be faithful than famous.” -Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); 26th U.S. President
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.” -John Adams (1735-1826); 2nd U.S. President
“Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” -Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] (born 1942); Boxer
“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.” -Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924); 28th U.S. President
“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.” -Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969); Founder Of The Japanese Martial Art Akido
I Kings 21:1-15; II Kings 9:26; John 15:1-8
The King wanted Naboth to sell out.
He said ‘No’.
January 1st, 1776 on Prospect Hill near Boston the Stars and Bars (Old Glory) was unfurled for the first time.
July 4th, 1776 the Continental Congress gathered and 56 signers signed their livelihood and life’s away by signing the Declaration of Independence.
In 1814 Dr. William Beanes was taken by the British. While he was there he treated some of their wounded. A lawyer, Francis Scott Key went to the British to try and gain Dr. Beanes release, to no avail. They both were placed on a sloop behind the British ships during the battle that ensued. From that vantage point, Key penned:
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!...
In 1893 Katharine Bates took a wagon pulled by two mules as far as she could and then climbed the rest of the way up Pikes Peak and looked out over the vast expanse and penned these words:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
CONFLICT
SPAN CASUALTIES
American Revolutionary War 1775-1783 25,000
Northwest Indian War 1785-1795 1,056
Quasi-War 1798-1800 514
War of 1812 1812-1815 20,000
1st Seminole War 1817-1818 36
Black Hawk War 1832 305
2nd Seminole War 1835-1842 1,535
Mexican-American War 1846-1848 13,283
3rd Seminole War 1855-1858 26
Civil War 1861-1865 625,000
Indian Wars 1865-1898 919
Great Sioux War 1875-1877 314
Spanish-America War 1898 2,446
Philippine-American War 1898-1913 4,196
Boxer Rebellion 1900-1901 131
Mexican Revolution 1914-1919 35
Haiti Occupation 1915-1934 148
World War 1 1917-1918 116,516
North Russia Campaign 1918-1920 424
American Exped. Force Siberia 1918-1920 328
Nicaragua Occupation 1927-1933 48
World War 2 1941-1945 405,399
Korean War 1950-1953 36,516
Vietnam War 1955-1975 58,209
El Salvador Civil War 1980-1992 37
Beirut 1982-1984 266
Grenada 1983 19
Panama 1989 40
Persian Gulf War 1990-1991 258
Operation Provide Comfort 1991-1996 19
Somalia Intervention 1992-1995 43
Bosnia 1995-2004 12
NATO Air Campaign Yugoslavia 1999 20
Afghanistan (ongoing) 2001- 2,145(11/2012)
Iraq 2003-2011 4,486
Total: 1,319,729
A lot of blood has been spilled/spent to pay for our independence our rights.
Our right to freedom of worship!
I am an American.
Not just a plan-Jane vanilla American.
I am an American who has rights, rights to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness".
Which rights were bought and paid for by the spilling of blood!
I am a Christian who has hope, hope to "Life, life everlasting/eternal".
Which hope was bought and paid for by the spilling of precious blood!
The blood of Jesus our Christ.
During WWII the Declaration of Independence was keep up the road here in Ft. Knox. Today it is displayed for viewing in the National Archives along with the Constitution.
I have right here, right now a copy of my Christian Constitution:
The Holy Bible!
WE have the right to PRAY TOGETHER ALOUD because in the Bible we read, "They lifted up their voice to God with one accord."- Acts 4:24
WE have the right to LIFT OUR HANDS IN PRAISE because in the Bible we read, "Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord." - Psalm 134:2
WE have the right to SING WITH ALL OUR HEARTS because in the Bible we read, "Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise." - Psalm 98:4
WE have the right to PLAY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS because in the Bible we read, "And all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments." - II Samuel 6:5
WE have the right to CLAP AND SHOUT UNTO GOD because in the Bible we read, "O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph."-Psalm 47:1
WE have the right to DANCE BEFORE THE LORD because in the bible we read, "Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs." - Psalm 150:4
WE have the right to TESTIFY PUBLICLY because in the bible we read, "I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee." -Psalm 22:22
WE have the right to ANOINT WITH OIL FOR DIVINE HEALING because in the Bible we read, "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elder of
the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord." -James 5:14
WE have the right to ALLOW THE OPERATION OF THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS because in the Bible we read, "When ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation." - I Corinthians 14:26
We have the freedoms we have today because of men and women who would rather die free than live in slavery.
We have freedom from sin today because of a Savior who died in our stead.
Don’t Sell Out!
