Juneteenth - a day to celebrate the USA

Good day children, Some thoughts on God and the United States,

This week we celebrate Juneteenth, an unusual national holiday.  It celebrates the final implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation, on June 19^th, 1865 in Galveston, Texas.  It might be our best national holiday celebrating the end of our civil war and marks a critical event in our nation’s history.

As you travel the world in your foreign exchange experiences you have run into many people who question the United States’ history and motives and ask your opinion.  I am sorry to say that your schooling has been sadly deficient in preparing you to respond to these inquiries.  And that is not a local Alexandria Central School issue, it is an organized effort by the social justice warriors and the EEE to diminish our pride in our country and further their twisted agenda.  They have focused on the school systems for several decades and the silent majority has been too busy working to pay attention.  Hopefully that is changing now that the pendulum has swung so far away from freedom that the silent majority has to stop and take notice of this enormous failure of our education system.  But that is for a later discussion.

I want to say that, as with Juneteenth, we have had many periods and events in our past to be proud of, to reflect on, and to appreciate the thought, efforts and sacrifices that prior citizens of our country have made to create our United States of today, 2023.  You have many reasons to be grateful to be an American, and proud of our families’ part as citizens of the USA the greatest country in the world.  Speaking for my family my father served in the US Army and fought in Africa and Italy as part of the Army’s heavy armor, 752 Tank Battalion which had the longest continuous deployment of WW II.  They fought in North Africa – Sicily – Italy – and held Tito at bay in the mountain pass above Trieste, Italy.  As a US Army Ranger, my brother dropped into Granada under heavy Russian fire.  When he was awarded his Ranger Badge he was the youngest E-5 in the Army.   I served 6 years in UIS Nuclear Navy under Admiral Rickover’s command.  The US’s strongest cold war deterrent, a far-reaching projection of power.  As President Kennedy said you can be proud if you served in the US Navy, and he was a Democrat I believe.  Grandma’s uncle served in WWII in the Philippines and was tortured in the infamous Battan March, there is a bridge in Westmorland Co, PA memorializing the local citizens who were captured and tortured in Battan.  Several of your mother’s family were veterans who served in various wars.  Sadly, we have not recorded our families’ history here in the North as much as other cultures have, even our own southern states. 

Many citizens from Pennsylvania and New York and other norther states fought in the Civil War to end legalized slavery here in the US.  The Civil War was a brutal war, it was the first industrialized war and the casualties were staggering on both sides, and we were both sides, the North and the South; it was the worse war in our history.  Civil war to end slavery - 620,000, WWII -  405,399, WWI – 116, 516, Viet Nam – 58,209, (these are from Statista.com.)  The United States lost about 25% of our young men during the Civil War.  To end what we determined was an evil that we could not allow to exist in our country.  Slavery and racism are not the same subject and we are working on racism, but many have made racism a major business.  These peddlers of victimism, are like the EEE merchants, they have an agenda that they want to impose on the country to further their own goals, and those goals are not necessarily good for any race living here in the United States.

The founding fathers and their wives and families paid a big price to gain our independence.  Their thoughts were based on what they considered were certain God given rights, natural rights, inalienable rights; for a human being to make their own decisions, live life as they choose within a reasonable government framework.  A representative republic.  We, the citizens of the United States, have a long and bloody past because freedom is not free.  There will always be someone who wants to control what you do, what you say, and even what you think.  Skip the trash on TV or Netflix some night and read the Federalists Papers, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or even 1984 and Animal Farm.  We have a lot to be proud of, I particularly like the idea of the Electoral College, the founders of our country were brilliant.  The later Senate and House of Representatives election process goes on to emphasize that.

Thank God for our country and continue to pray for it, and spend some time reading your history, but be careful to understand who the author of the history is and their motives.  Liars talk at cocktail parties, town meetings, and in church.  But, they also write school text books, popular novels, and history books.