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A Christmas Poem

A NEW CHRISTMAS POEM— TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, HE LIVED ALL ALONE, IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE. I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE, AND TO SEE JUST WHO IN THIS HOME DID LIVE. I LOOKED ALL ABOUT, A...

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Amazing America

For two centuries there was little disagreement that the USA was different from all other nations. From almost every perspective ours was a great nation. Just the fact that people from all over the world have and still are moving here—not away from...

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George Washington on Thanksgiving

George Washington established Thanksgiving Day with this talk; trust me, folks, our founding fathers beleived in God. Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his...

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A Problem at West Point

I graduated from West Point in 1964; the four years there truly molded me into the man that I am. It made me a man of character and honor and one committed to serve my nation. I was a reasonably squared-away young man when I arrived, but I really...

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An Open Letter to NFL Players

You graduated high school in 2011. Your teenage years were a struggle. You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Your mother was the leader of the family and worked tirelessly to keep a roof over your head and food on your plate. Academics were a...

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Take a Knee

TAKE A KNEE. -Take a little trip to Valley Forge in January. If you don’t know where that is, just Google it from the sidelines. Hold a musket ball in your fingers and imagine it piercing your flesh and breaking a bone or two. There...

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Faith-based groups & Veterans

It seems that virtually all of the money given to help our nation’s hurricane victims have come from Faith-based groups and Veterans–and virtually none from the goofy left (or right) or any of those groups that want to pull down statues...

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Stand Up for Our Flag

I was thinking about all those multi-millionaire pro-football players who refuse to stand for our national anthem. I’m guessing that any family in America can live quite well on, say, $100,000 per year. How many of these America-haters have kept...

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Violence

President Trump has made it clear that while public protesting is appropriate, violence is wrong and he’s opposed to it, period. I totally agree with this. We veterans have defended with our lives the Constitution which guarantees, among other...

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Transgender

When the president recently tweeted out that he was going to prohibit transgender persons from joining or being in our military outrage was expressed from many directions—the general complaint was that it was discriminatory and just not fair. It’s...

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