We Are The Indians And 'They' Are The Cowboys...
Part 1 of 3... Posted To Me On April 2, 2018... Don D.
We Are The New Native Americans
My friends,
Imagine what America was like merely 100 years ago. There were the outhouses equipped with Sears Roebuck catalogs, kerosene lamps, and hand pumps for your water. There were no hot showers; the annual bath was in June, although some had a swimming hole in the summer. Most of our energy needs were renewable biofuel: The wood used to heat our homes. It all had to be cut and split, however, and there were no chainsaws. Most families raised their own food, supplemented by what they brought from a nearby lake and the forest, and everything was true horsepower. People spun their yarn and made much of their own clothing. There were no telephones.
There was no welfare to bail out the imprudent. Sickly children mostly died, so the gene pool remained fairly healthy. There were no Fitness Gyms because folks got plenty of necessary exercises.
The average American never got further than 25 miles from the house he or she was born in. You were acquainted with all the neighbors, fiercely independent but who could rely on each other to raise a barn or get in the hay, and society was very stable and predictable. Children made their own basic toys although a doll might arrive at Christmas, and possibly some oranges, once a year. Children pitched in, and it was not unheard of that a 12-year-old girl cooked the meals for the haying crew. There were cows to be milked morning and night by hand, not to forget the chicken coop.
Even my father, born in 1904, came to life before Henry Ford did his thing, I think exactly 100 years ago. He said it was lucky to get 500 miles of use from a car tire, and that included several inner tube patches, and it took all day to drive 60-70 miles to go trout fishing “up north.” In the winter they rode the train to the relatives’ farm for rabbit hunting (with ferrets) and were picked up at the station with a horse and sleigh.
It took little more than a generation to finally annihilate the American Indian culture and sequester those who hadn’t been k**led or starved on to Reservations, places not fit for the new Americans. So it was for the herds of free-ranging bison. The platform of life in America had evolved and the original inhabitants of this land no longer had a place. The Short-faced Bear reigned for centuries, but lost his environmental niche and became extinct. Accommodate or perish: That is nature’s law.
Al Gore almost succeeded in having the chance to capsize America in 2000, and John Kerry likewise in 2004, and the turnover is inevitable because the American sub-species of homo sapiens has evolved to acclimate to the evolution of a new environmental niche. Most folks own computers, but no one could build one from scratch. Cars have become too technical for the backyard mechanic, and they will tell you that you need an oil change if a tire gets underinflated, and how many miles until you are out of gas. Energy requirements to run this sophisticated social system have escalated beyond anyone’s earlier imagination, resulting in energy dependence on alien countries in order for us to survive.
We fret about the I*****l A***ns from Mexico and having to push #1 for English, but that is just the beginning of the story. The T***s-American Super Highway is already under construction, 4 football fields wide, running from South America through Kansas and into Canada, with the plan for open borders across the Americas and even for a standard currency, like the Euro.
We move on the average every 4 years so we have not only lost our rootedness with nature but to a neighborhood. Both parents typically work and sometimes different shifts, further alienating families. We have lost our cultural or collective identity.
You see, this society has been t***sformed by technology and international corporations. Television bathes us in virtual reality, fed to children in their video games. Most people apparently no longer bother to distinguish fact from entertaining fiction. We have gone from a society of people who were self-reliant and self-sufficient, the salt of the earth, to a society where most everyone would starve without the supermarket, could not work without energy-intensive t***sportation, and is trained by all the reminders and cautions our products provide not to be responsible for oneself. Folks try to sue Burger King for making them fat.
We are a physically weak and obese society. All of this means that We the People have gone from a fit people, steeped in liberty and independence to dependency, physically unfit but sustained by dependence on the pharmaceutical industry, and thus craving entitlements and requiring socialism and the “nanny state.”
The latest example of what socialism portends is the housing market collapse, caused by the Democrats this past 10 years, who insisted that everyone be given houses whether or not they could pay for them. But the fact is that this dependent evolving sub-species of American requires socialism and is now, in 2008, finally v****g decisively to capsize and t***sform the America which Abraham Lincoln so wisely observed we were already testing then, “whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
So you see, my friends, you and I are the new version of the Short-faced Bear or the first native Americans. Our environmental niche has slipped away and we are now displaced and marginalized. The ecological platform of the America of the Revolution and the Constitution has not endured and thus, inevitably, the America of the dependent, socialistic metropolitan anthills has superseded us. All within a century. Where is there a Reservation for us? There seems to be nowhere left to go.
(Part 2 Coming Soon)
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
Part 1 of 3... Posted To Me On April 2, 2018... Don D.
We Are The New Native Americans
My friends,
Imagine what America was like merely 100 years ago. There were the outhouses equipped with Sears Roebuck catalogs, kerosene lamps, and hand pumps for your water. There were no hot showers; the annual bath was in June, although some had a swimming hole in the summer. Most of our energy needs were renewable biofuel: The wood used to heat our homes. It all had to be cut and split, however, and there were no chainsaws. Most families raised their own food, supplemented by what they brought from a nearby lake and the forest, and everything was true horsepower. People spun their yarn and made much of their own clothing. There were no telephones.
There was no welfare to bail out the imprudent. Sickly children mostly died, so the gene pool remained fairly healthy. There were no Fitness Gyms because folks got plenty of necessary exercises.
The average American never got further than 25 miles from the house he or she was born in. You were acquainted with all the neighbors, fiercely independent but who could rely on each other to raise a barn or get in the hay, and society was very stable and predictable. Children made their own basic toys although a doll might arrive at Christmas, and possibly some oranges, once a year. Children pitched in, and it was not unheard of that a 12-year-old girl cooked the meals for the haying crew. There were cows to be milked morning and night by hand, not to forget the chicken coop.
Even my father, born in 1904, came to life before Henry Ford did his thing, I think exactly 100 years ago. He said it was lucky to get 500 miles of use from a car tire, and that included several inner tube patches, and it took all day to drive 60-70 miles to go trout fishing “up north.” In the winter they rode the train to the relatives’ farm for rabbit hunting (with ferrets) and were picked up at the station with a horse and sleigh.
It took little more than a generation to finally annihilate the American Indian culture and sequester those who hadn’t been k**led or starved on to Reservations, places not fit for the new Americans. So it was for the herds of free-ranging bison. The platform of life in America had evolved and the original inhabitants of this land no longer had a place. The Short-faced Bear reigned for centuries, but lost his environmental niche and became extinct. Accommodate or perish: That is nature’s law.
Al Gore almost succeeded in having the chance to capsize America in 2000, and John Kerry likewise in 2004, and the turnover is inevitable because the American sub-species of homo sapiens has evolved to acclimate to the evolution of a new environmental niche. Most folks own computers, but no one could build one from scratch. Cars have become too technical for the backyard mechanic, and they will tell you that you need an oil change if a tire gets underinflated, and how many miles until you are out of gas. Energy requirements to run this sophisticated social system have escalated beyond anyone’s earlier imagination, resulting in energy dependence on alien countries in order for us to survive.
We fret about the I*****l A***ns from Mexico and having to push #1 for English, but that is just the beginning of the story. The T***s-American Super Highway is already under construction, 4 football fields wide, running from South America through Kansas and into Canada, with the plan for open borders across the Americas and even for a standard currency, like the Euro.
We move on the average every 4 years so we have not only lost our rootedness with nature but to a neighborhood. Both parents typically work and sometimes different shifts, further alienating families. We have lost our cultural or collective identity.
You see, this society has been t***sformed by technology and international corporations. Television bathes us in virtual reality, fed to children in their video games. Most people apparently no longer bother to distinguish fact from entertaining fiction. We have gone from a society of people who were self-reliant and self-sufficient, the salt of the earth, to a society where most everyone would starve without the supermarket, could not work without energy-intensive t***sportation, and is trained by all the reminders and cautions our products provide not to be responsible for oneself. Folks try to sue Burger King for making them fat.
We are a physically weak and obese society. All of this means that We the People have gone from a fit people, steeped in liberty and independence to dependency, physically unfit but sustained by dependence on the pharmaceutical industry, and thus craving entitlements and requiring socialism and the “nanny state.”
The latest example of what socialism portends is the housing market collapse, caused by the Democrats this past 10 years, who insisted that everyone be given houses whether or not they could pay for them. But the fact is that this dependent evolving sub-species of American requires socialism and is now, in 2008, finally v****g decisively to capsize and t***sform the America which Abraham Lincoln so wisely observed we were already testing then, “whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
So you see, my friends, you and I are the new version of the Short-faced Bear or the first native Americans. Our environmental niche has slipped away and we are now displaced and marginalized. The ecological platform of the America of the Revolution and the Constitution has not endured and thus, inevitably, the America of the dependent, socialistic metropolitan anthills has superseded us. All within a century. Where is there a Reservation for us? There seems to be nowhere left to go.
(Part 2 Coming Soon)
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I have felt extinct for some time now thanks for the reminder.
Excellent, looking forward to part 2. Mike
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
Part 1 of 3... Posted To Me On April 2, 2018... Don D.
We Are The New Native Americans
My friends,
Imagine what America was like merely 100 years ago. There were the outhouses equipped with Sears Roebuck catalogs, kerosene lamps, and hand pumps for your water. There were no hot showers; the annual bath was in June, although some had a swimming hole in the summer. Most of our energy needs were renewable biofuel: The wood used to heat our homes. It all had to be cut and split, however, and there were no chainsaws. Most families raised their own food, supplemented by what they brought from a nearby lake and the forest, and everything was true horsepower. People spun their yarn and made much of their own clothing. There were no telephones.
There was no welfare to bail out the imprudent. Sickly children mostly died, so the gene pool remained fairly healthy. There were no Fitness Gyms because folks got plenty of necessary exercises.
The average American never got further than 25 miles from the house he or she was born in. You were acquainted with all the neighbors, fiercely independent but who could rely on each other to raise a barn or get in the hay, and society was very stable and predictable. Children made their own basic toys although a doll might arrive at Christmas, and possibly some oranges, once a year. Children pitched in, and it was not unheard of that a 12-year-old girl cooked the meals for the haying crew. There were cows to be milked morning and night by hand, not to forget the chicken coop.
Even my father, born in 1904, came to life before Henry Ford did his thing, I think exactly 100 years ago. He said it was lucky to get 500 miles of use from a car tire, and that included several inner tube patches, and it took all day to drive 60-70 miles to go trout fishing “up north.” In the winter they rode the train to the relatives’ farm for rabbit hunting (with ferrets) and were picked up at the station with a horse and sleigh.
It took little more than a generation to finally annihilate the American Indian culture and sequester those who hadn’t been k**led or starved on to Reservations, places not fit for the new Americans. So it was for the herds of free-ranging bison. The platform of life in America had evolved and the original inhabitants of this land no longer had a place. The Short-faced Bear reigned for centuries, but lost his environmental niche and became extinct. Accommodate or perish: That is nature’s law.
Al Gore almost succeeded in having the chance to capsize America in 2000, and John Kerry likewise in 2004, and the turnover is inevitable because the American sub-species of homo sapiens has evolved to acclimate to the evolution of a new environmental niche. Most folks own computers, but no one could build one from scratch. Cars have become too technical for the backyard mechanic, and they will tell you that you need an oil change if a tire gets underinflated, and how many miles until you are out of gas. Energy requirements to run this sophisticated social system have escalated beyond anyone’s earlier imagination, resulting in energy dependence on alien countries in order for us to survive.
We fret about the I*****l A***ns from Mexico and having to push #1 for English, but that is just the beginning of the story. The T***s-American Super Highway is already under construction, 4 football fields wide, running from South America through Kansas and into Canada, with the plan for open borders across the Americas and even for a standard currency, like the Euro.
We move on the average every 4 years so we have not only lost our rootedness with nature but to a neighborhood. Both parents typically work and sometimes different shifts, further alienating families. We have lost our cultural or collective identity.
You see, this society has been t***sformed by technology and international corporations. Television bathes us in virtual reality, fed to children in their video games. Most people apparently no longer bother to distinguish fact from entertaining fiction. We have gone from a society of people who were self-reliant and self-sufficient, the salt of the earth, to a society where most everyone would starve without the supermarket, could not work without energy-intensive t***sportation, and is trained by all the reminders and cautions our products provide not to be responsible for oneself. Folks try to sue Burger King for making them fat.
We are a physically weak and obese society. All of this means that We the People have gone from a fit people, steeped in liberty and independence to dependency, physically unfit but sustained by dependence on the pharmaceutical industry, and thus craving entitlements and requiring socialism and the “nanny state.”
The latest example of what socialism portends is the housing market collapse, caused by the Democrats this past 10 years, who insisted that everyone be given houses whether or not they could pay for them. But the fact is that this dependent evolving sub-species of American requires socialism and is now, in 2008, finally v****g decisively to capsize and t***sform the America which Abraham Lincoln so wisely observed we were already testing then, “whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
So you see, my friends, you and I are the new version of the Short-faced Bear or the first native Americans. Our environmental niche has slipped away and we are now displaced and marginalized. The ecological platform of the America of the Revolution and the Constitution has not endured and thus, inevitably, the America of the dependent, socialistic metropolitan anthills has superseded us. All within a century. Where is there a Reservation for us? There seems to be nowhere left to go.
(Part 2 Coming Soon)
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Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
Part 1 of 3... Posted To Me On April 2, 2018... Don D.
We Are The New Native Americans
My friends,
Imagine what America was like merely 100 years ago. There were the outhouses equipped with Sears Roebuck catalogs, kerosene lamps, and hand pumps for your water. There were no hot showers; the annual bath was in June, although some had a swimming hole in the summer. Most of our energy needs were renewable biofuel: The wood used to heat our homes. It all had to be cut and split, however, and there were no chainsaws. Most families raised their own food, supplemented by what they brought from a nearby lake and the forest, and everything was true horsepower. People spun their yarn and made much of their own clothing. There were no telephones.
There was no welfare to bail out the imprudent. Sickly children mostly died, so the gene pool remained fairly healthy. There were no Fitness Gyms because folks got plenty of necessary exercises.
The average American never got further than 25 miles from the house he or she was born in. You were acquainted with all the neighbors, fiercely independent but who could rely on each other to raise a barn or get in the hay, and society was very stable and predictable. Children made their own basic toys although a doll might arrive at Christmas, and possibly some oranges, once a year. Children pitched in, and it was not unheard of that a 12-year-old girl cooked the meals for the haying crew. There were cows to be milked morning and night by hand, not to forget the chicken coop.
Even my father, born in 1904, came to life before Henry Ford did his thing, I think exactly 100 years ago. He said it was lucky to get 500 miles of use from a car tire, and that included several inner tube patches, and it took all day to drive 60-70 miles to go trout fishing “up north.” In the winter they rode the train to the relatives’ farm for rabbit hunting (with ferrets) and were picked up at the station with a horse and sleigh.
It took little more than a generation to finally annihilate the American Indian culture and sequester those who hadn’t been k**led or starved on to Reservations, places not fit for the new Americans. So it was for the herds of free-ranging bison. The platform of life in America had evolved and the original inhabitants of this land no longer had a place. The Short-faced Bear reigned for centuries, but lost his environmental niche and became extinct. Accommodate or perish: That is nature’s law.
Al Gore almost succeeded in having the chance to capsize America in 2000, and John Kerry likewise in 2004, and the turnover is inevitable because the American sub-species of homo sapiens has evolved to acclimate to the evolution of a new environmental niche. Most folks own computers, but no one could build one from scratch. Cars have become too technical for the backyard mechanic, and they will tell you that you need an oil change if a tire gets underinflated, and how many miles until you are out of gas. Energy requirements to run this sophisticated social system have escalated beyond anyone’s earlier imagination, resulting in energy dependence on alien countries in order for us to survive.
We fret about the I*****l A***ns from Mexico and having to push #1 for English, but that is just the beginning of the story. The T***s-American Super Highway is already under construction, 4 football fields wide, running from South America through Kansas and into Canada, with the plan for open borders across the Americas and even for a standard currency, like the Euro.
We move on the average every 4 years so we have not only lost our rootedness with nature but to a neighborhood. Both parents typically work and sometimes different shifts, further alienating families. We have lost our cultural or collective identity.
You see, this society has been t***sformed by technology and international corporations. Television bathes us in virtual reality, fed to children in their video games. Most people apparently no longer bother to distinguish fact from entertaining fiction. We have gone from a society of people who were self-reliant and self-sufficient, the salt of the earth, to a society where most everyone would starve without the supermarket, could not work without energy-intensive t***sportation, and is trained by all the reminders and cautions our products provide not to be responsible for oneself. Folks try to sue Burger King for making them fat.
We are a physically weak and obese society. All of this means that We the People have gone from a fit people, steeped in liberty and independence to dependency, physically unfit but sustained by dependence on the pharmaceutical industry, and thus craving entitlements and requiring socialism and the “nanny state.”
The latest example of what socialism portends is the housing market collapse, caused by the Democrats this past 10 years, who insisted that everyone be given houses whether or not they could pay for them. But the fact is that this dependent evolving sub-species of American requires socialism and is now, in 2008, finally v****g decisively to capsize and t***sform the America which Abraham Lincoln so wisely observed we were already testing then, “whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
So you see, my friends, you and I are the new version of the Short-faced Bear or the first native Americans. Our environmental niche has slipped away and we are now displaced and marginalized. The ecological platform of the America of the Revolution and the Constitution has not endured and thus, inevitably, the America of the dependent, socialistic metropolitan anthills has superseded us. All within a century. Where is there a Reservation for us? There seems to be nowhere left to go.
(Part 2 Coming Soon)
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Rather telling article!!! Look forward to reading the next...
The Reservation for us i??? Our country Don, our country!! Not for Socialist or c*******t but for we Americans... our fight to insure it remains regardless of those within whom want to change it.. Is that not the goal??
We don’t go anywhere... We work together to return the good of our past as we move forward in this revoluntionized environment..Progress isnt’t slways good until we harness what in it has hurt rather than benefited...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure...
Do you remember the Gettysburg address ??
As I read your article it was almost screaming st me~~
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.
Do we abondon the brave who sacraficed their lives to simply Acquiesce now? Oh hell no, we do not!!!!
lindajoy wrote:
Rather telling article!!! Look forward to reading the next...
The Reservation for us i??? Our country Don, our country!! Not for Socialist or c*******t but for we Americans... our fight to insure it remains regardless of those within whom want to change it.. Is that not the goal??
We don’t go anywhere... We work together to return the good of our past as we move forward in this revoluntionized environment..Progress isnt’t slways good until we harness what in it has hurt rather than benefited...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure...
Do you remember the Gettysburg address ??
As I read your article it was almost screaming st me~~
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.
Do we abondon the brave who sacraficed their lives to simply Acquiesce now? Oh hell no, we do not!!!!
Rather telling article!!! Look forward to reading ... (
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spoken by a true American
and by a beautiful lady
America first
Well Said... Don D.
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lindajoy wrote:
Rather telling article!!! Look forward to reading the next...
The Reservation for us i??? Our country Don, our country!! Not for Socialist or c*******t but for we Americans... our fight to insure it remains regardless of those within whom want to change it.. Is that not the goal??
We don’t go anywhere... We work together to return the good of our past as we move forward in this revoluntionized environment..Progress isnt’t slways good until we harness what in it has hurt rather than benefited...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure...
Do you remember the Gettysburg address ??
As I read your article it was almost screaming st me~~
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.
Do we abondon the brave who sacraficed their lives to simply Acquiesce now? Oh hell no, we do not!!!!
Rather telling article!!! Look forward to reading ... (
show quote)
lindajoy wrote:
Rather telling article!!! Look forward to reading the next...
The Reservation for us i??? Our country Don, our country!! Not for Socialist or c*******t but for we Americans... our fight to insure it remains regardless of those within whom want to change it.. Is that not the goal??
We don’t go anywhere... We work together to return the good of our past as we move forward in this revoluntionized environment..Progress isnt’t slways good until we harness what in it has hurt rather than benefited...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure...
Do you remember the Gettysburg address ??
As I read your article it was almost screaming st me~~
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.
Do we abondon the brave who sacraficed their lives to simply Acquiesce now? Oh hell no, we do not!!!!
Rather telling article!!! Look forward to reading ... (
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Ah....... Lindajoy: The Gettysburg Address brings back fond memories of challenges offered to me as a child! My history teacher in the sixth grade challenged me to a test of memorizing the Gettysburg Address to convert my final grade from a B to an A. I excepted, and was successful! Where is the drive and mentorship to day inspiring us to continue to MAGA? I to this day can still pretty much recite that profound speech!
badbobby wrote:
spoken by a true American
and by a beautiful lady
America first
Thank You bobby~~ Just as you are a true American and wonderful soldier that defended this great Nation!!
You and any and all who stood for Her, our hero’s!!!!!!❤️🌺
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Ah....... Lindajoy: The Gettysburg Address brings back fond memories of challenges offered to me as a child! My history teacher in the sixth grade challenged me to a test of memorizing the Gettysburg Address to convert my final grade from a B to an A. I excepted, and was successful! Where is the drive and mentorship to day inspiring us to continue to MAGA? I to this day can still pretty much recite that profound speech!
What a great story!!! You also ask a very concerning question!! Where are those mentors to push and help?? Teachers don’t even teach things as this!! Heck schools are gradually removing the true history of our Nation!!! All for that progressivism BS half the nation looks to change or no, replace in our heritage!!!
My father was my mentor for this one..We were headed to Gettysburg and DC one vacation to learn the “history of our Nation” as my Dad said.. We shuddered at what that meant... lol
Let me tell you it was one of our best vacations never forgotten either... We were all required to know, memorize the Gettysburg Address before we got there.. A road trip 3 days getting there “ gave us all plenty of time to read of it and be able to recite it...
Like you I have never forgotten it either..My son can tell you all about Gettysburg and can also recite it.. Something we just started when driving around wherever, one would start it and the other picked up wherever...
If we are not careful schools will just be indoctrination of socialism through and through, as it almost is now!!!
If it wasn't for Pickett's charge failing, you would all be speaking with a drawl. Mike
lindajoy wrote:
What a great story!!! You also ask a very concerning question!! Where are those mentors to push and help?? Teachers don’t even teach things as this!! Heck schools are gradually removing the true history of our Nation!!! All for that progressivism BS half the nation looks to change or no, replace in our heritage!!!
My father was my mentor for this one..We were headed to Gettysburg and DC one vacation to learn the “history of our Nation” as my Dad said.. We shuddered at what that meant... lol
Let me tell you it was one of our best vacations never forgotten either... We were all required to know, memorize the Gettysburg Address before we got there.. A road trip 3 days getting there “ gave us all plenty of time to read of it and be able to recite it...
Like you I have never forgotten it either..My son can tell you all about Gettysburg and can also recite it.. Something we just started when driving around wherever, one would start it and the other picked up wherever...
If we are not careful schools will just be indoctrination of socialism through and through, as it almost is now!!!
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lindajoy wrote:
What a great story!!! You also ask a very concerning question!! Where are those mentors to push and help?? Teachers don’t even teach things as this!! Heck schools are gradually removing the true history of our Nation!!! All for that progressivism BS half the nation looks to change or no, replace in our heritage!!!
My father was my mentor for this one..We were headed to Gettysburg and DC one vacation to learn the “history of our Nation” as my Dad said.. We shuddered at what that meant... lol
Let me tell you it was one of our best vacations never forgotten either... We were all required to know, memorize the Gettysburg Address before we got there.. A road trip 3 days getting there “ gave us all plenty of time to read of it and be able to recite it...
Like you I have never forgotten it either..My son can tell you all about Gettysburg and can also recite it.. Something we just started when driving around wherever, one would start it and the other picked up wherever...
If we are not careful schools will just be indoctrination of socialism through and through, as it almost is now!!!
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lindajoy: I'm afraid it is all by design...I find it hard that too many liberals can't see or except the fact; we are slouching with Gomorrah!
LJ, you are very lucky to have visited Gettysburg. It's so small a place and yet had such an impact on our Country. What a lucky girl you were. It's no wonder you are as understanding of things as you are and being up on history, modern and past. Most people have NO understanding of what the Battle at Gettysburg was about. Without one mistake by Lee, the North loses, and actually that wasn't Lee's mistake but Pickett's. Mike
lindajoy wrote:
What a great story!!! You also ask a very concerning question!! Where are those mentors to push and help?? Teachers don’t even teach things as this!! Heck schools are gradually removing the true history of our Nation!!! All for that progressivism BS half the nation looks to change or no, replace in our heritage!!!
My father was my mentor for this one..We were headed to Gettysburg and DC one vacation to learn the “history of our Nation” as my Dad said.. We shuddered at what that meant... lol
Let me tell you it was one of our best vacations never forgotten either... We were all required to know, memorize the Gettysburg Address before we got there.. A road trip 3 days getting there “ gave us all plenty of time to read of it and be able to recite it...
Like you I have never forgotten it either..My son can tell you all about Gettysburg and can also recite it.. Something we just started when driving around wherever, one would start it and the other picked up wherever...
If we are not careful schools will just be indoctrination of socialism through and through, as it almost is now!!!
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If Lee Would Have Listen To Longstreet Same Thing, Y'all... Don D.
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If it wasn't for Pickett's charge failing, you would all be speaking with a drawl. Mike
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