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America The Beautiful

  America The Beautifulsung by Ray Charles

Harriet "Minty"Tubman

Just and Unjust LawsDuring the constitutional debates that took place in the late 1780s  over what the United States would look like in the future,  it was commonly assumed that slavery would gradually end soon,  in the next century. White southern politicians had managed to win three very significant concessions that ...

Making Threats Via The Internet

Making Threats Against The PresidentIn Washington, DC on August 3, 2009, Mr. Toby Harnden wrote: "Since Mr. Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of ...

I Promise!

It has been more than 60 years since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made this speech in which he made fun of the politicians of his day.  It sounds very much like what is happening in Washington DC today

You Have Enemies?

You Have Enemies?

Patriotic?

Live Eagle In A MIlitary Cemetery

A Live Eagle In  A Military Cemetery(click on picture for a larger View)The above picture of an Eagle sitting on the top of a gravestone in a military cemetery was sent to me by my oldest son,  He received it from a friend of his.I suppose that what it symbolizes ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt Speaks

Franklin D. Roosevelt SpeaksThe Four FreedomsThe following is taken from "The Four Freedoms" a speech that was delivered on January 6, 1941.  If you wish to read the entire "Four Freedoms" speech it is included at the end of the post."If the Congress maintains these principles the voters, putting patriotism ...

Virginia Hall, American Spy

Virginia Hall - OSS Sketch. Virginia Hall - An American Spy On December 12, 2006, Virginia Hall was  honored at the home of the French ambassador in Washington, D.C., by the French and British governments. British Ambassador Sir David Manning, Virginia Hall's niece Lorna Catling and French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte at the ...

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