Tag: history

• A Lesson From The Civil War

  Saturday night I began feeling a bit off and I thought a good night’s sleep would help. However, I woke up feeling a bit worse. So I ended up staying home from church laying in my chair most of the morning. Then during the afternoon, I began watching the Grit channel. One of the major…

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  September 23, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• Timing and Strategy

  The historian in me loves how this is playing out. Of course I wasn’t born yet in 1963 when JFK was shot in Dallas. However, the Kennedy Family in America is close to royalty and my interest in this family was also induced by my love in reading about history. Especially PT 109 intrigued me.…

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  August 23, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Modern American History

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• “Stolen Valor”

  Last Thursday was the day that news really began pouring out about the potential Vice Presidential nominee chosen for the Democrat ticket. The opposing Vice Presidential nominee, sitting Senator J.D Vance had even accused Walz of “stolen valor.” A major accusation thrown and major snafus made by the man accused of such a thing. Perhaps…

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  August 14, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, Modern American History

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• Trump, Women and DEI

  Since the assassination Attempt a couple of Saturday’s ago a lot has transpired. Things we could never have foreseen actually came about. Including an instance from yesterday, I don’t usually say this phrase, but where literally, hell did freeze over. How did this all happen it goes back to July 13th. The Secret Service Director…

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  July 23, 2024

  American Heritage, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• Adapting To the RNC

  After watching the 2020 Republican Convention I was hooked. It was an amazing sight to observe even through the livestream at home. The Campaign’s slogan of reinvigorating our National Heritage hit me in all the right places. My Bachelors degree was Social Studies and history is a passion of mine. They way that last convention…

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  July 19, 2024

  American Heritage, Bible Reflections, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History, Musical Glory, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• Cemeteries… A Peaceful Solitude

  Heading back to the Cemetery this morning almost always feels good. It means exercise time and about half of the time we can say it is actually peaceful. I guess we have to have a reason to pay the mowers right! There are times they beat us and vice versa. Today once again they beat…

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  July 3, 2024

  American Heritage, Bible Reflections, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• Saying Goodbye For Now

  This morning I have to admit I was a bit irritated. I got up early and was ready to walk by 7 am. Mom had taken off with my brother to get milk so I got a little flustered by this when we have been trying to get up early to walk and today was…

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  July 2, 2024

  American Heritage, Bible Reflections, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• Fleeing For Our Lives…

  Mom and I enjoy walking. Thankfully we have gotten back up to a half an hour routine. Of course we do walk in the local cemetery. I have mentioned before it is where a lot of family and friends stones are standing tall. The reason we walk there is because it’s really just a nice…

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  July 2, 2024

  American Heritage, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• Wonderful and Unusual

  My summer has officially begun as of last Friday. Somehow my niece has shaken up our usual schedule and we don’t know what’s going on except for a couple of facts. One being that my Dad and brother head to work at nearly 4 and Selena knows she wants to be out if we are…

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  June 21, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• The Day Before

  Today was a nice day. It was good for our walk this morning and then this afternoon it turned. A front came in and it has been raining since, whether lightly or somewhat harder. I know it’s not completely the same, but I think about 1944 and what that day was like. It was a…

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  June 5, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Modern American History

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