Thomson Guards Dispatch
July - December 2024
Tom Holley, Editor
Next Meeting -- Tuesday, August 2024
Nancy Hart Militia, the All-Female Militia Unit of
LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia
By Julie N. Hardaway,
Vice President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Nancy Hart Militia, the All-Female Militia Unit of
LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia
By Julie N. Hardaway,
Vice President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Julie grew up in Augusta, Georgia and attended Georgia Southern College. She graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 1986 with a BS in Medical Technology and is certified by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. She married Cliff Hardaway and has 3 sons and 1 daughter who are scattered from Colorado to Tennessee to South Carolina. She is grandmother to twins and another on the way in November.
Julie has lived or worked in GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, OH and KY. She joined the UDC in 2006 on the line of her great great grandfather Hugh Lawson Burke, Company H, 63rd GA Infantry, then served as Chapter President and Treasurer of Albert Sidney Johnston 120 in Louisville, KY. She was KY Division President from 2010-2012, when she moved to SC to be near aging parents and in-laws. She was the last Chaplain of General to hold memorial services in a church (2014). She was Recorder General of Military Service Awards 2020-2022. She currently serves the UDC as Treasurer of Jefferson Davis 2465 Chapter in Aiken and as Vice President General. She has 15 proven supplementals including two for Civil service (one a Confederate tax collector) and the first two women ever proven for militia duty (Nancy Hart).
Julie is a follower of Jesus Christ, is a member of Town Creek Baptist Church in Aiken and has lead numerous Bible studies including Bible Study Fellowship. She is proud to be an American, but is most proud to be a Southern American.
Julie has lived or worked in GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, OH and KY. She joined the UDC in 2006 on the line of her great great grandfather Hugh Lawson Burke, Company H, 63rd GA Infantry, then served as Chapter President and Treasurer of Albert Sidney Johnston 120 in Louisville, KY. She was KY Division President from 2010-2012, when she moved to SC to be near aging parents and in-laws. She was the last Chaplain of General to hold memorial services in a church (2014). She was Recorder General of Military Service Awards 2020-2022. She currently serves the UDC as Treasurer of Jefferson Davis 2465 Chapter in Aiken and as Vice President General. She has 15 proven supplementals including two for Civil service (one a Confederate tax collector) and the first two women ever proven for militia duty (Nancy Hart).
Julie is a follower of Jesus Christ, is a member of Town Creek Baptist Church in Aiken and has lead numerous Bible studies including Bible Study Fellowship. She is proud to be an American, but is most proud to be a Southern American.
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Julie N. Hardaway brought greetings from UDC at Camp 91’s Confederate
Memorial Day program, April 20, 2024. In her role as a national UDC officer, she travels across many states in an effort to educate and encourage pride concerning our Southern heritage. |
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Pictured with Karen Holley, Dr. David Hollingsworth and Phil Turner (right)
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129th SCV National Reunion - North Charleston, South Carolina - July 17-20, 2024
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Photo (l to r): Janet Manning, Dollie &Mike Lacefield, Tim Pilgrim and Tom & Karen Holley These are my take-away items from the latest convention in Charleston, SC:
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Elections
1. Mr. Walter “Donnie” Kennedy, formerly the Lt. CIC, was unanimously elected as the new SCV Commander in Chief. 2. Mr. Carl Jones, formerly councilman of the AOT, was elected Commander of the Army of Tennessee.
National SCV Museum — On July 31, 2023, the debt was $2,300,000. On July 15, 2024, the debt was $1,067,000. At the end of the convention, the debt is $975,000. Great progress. However, our mortgage rate of current 3.75% will be adjusted on July 31, 2025. Therefore, we must do all possible to pay off the debt.
Mr. Timothy Pilgrim
Overview
1. Mr. Walter “Donnie” Kennedy, formerly the Lt. CIC, was unanimously elected as the new SCV Commander in Chief. 2. Mr. Carl Jones, formerly councilman of the AOT, was elected Commander of the Army of Tennessee.
National SCV Museum — On July 31, 2023, the debt was $2,300,000. On July 15, 2024, the debt was $1,067,000. At the end of the convention, the debt is $975,000. Great progress. However, our mortgage rate of current 3.75% will be adjusted on July 31, 2025. Therefore, we must do all possible to pay off the debt.
- Camp 91 will continue to submit $60 per month.
- 2025 Houston, TX / 2026 Lexington, KY / 2027 Mobile, AL
Mr. Timothy Pilgrim
- Georgia Division Commander in Chief, gave an excellent program during the Heritage Defense luncheon. His emphasis was on: Communication within the division and What the division is doing to protect our monuments.
Overview
- Tom and Karen Holley with Mike and Dollie Lacefield and Janet Manning attended the event. The speakers were excellent. The business meetings were well attended and lots of necessary business was accomplished. Many old acquaintances were renewed. YOU should consider going to at least one National convention.
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The H. L. Hunley Submarine Historical Museum
is a must-see experience when you visit Charleston, South Carolina. https://www.hunley.org/ 
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Vinny Balducci
At the 2022 national reunion in Cartersville, GA, and the 2023 reunion in Hot Springs, Arkansas, we met a very charming, but very unlikely SCV member. Here we are again in 2024 with Vincent Balducci.
Vinny is a member of the Private Meredith Pool, Camp 1805, in Hammonton, New Jersey. He was born and raised up north. He is currently nearing completion of a PhD at Walden University in clinical psychology with a focus on family therapy with a Christian perspective. |
He is exuberant about his Southern heritage. His tour of the United Daughters of the Confederacy headquarters in Richmond, Virginia, was the catalyst for our visit there last summer.
He was the first person we met in Cartersville and we enjoyed the Banquet & Grand Ball finale together. And, of course, he wore his period uniform for the big event. At that time he was trying to decide where he wanted to move down South to begin his career. He has now selected Dothan, Alabama to be his new home.
Congratulations and best wishes, Vinny. You are a true asset for SCV and Alabama will be lucky to have you as a new resident. — Karen and Tom Holley
He was the first person we met in Cartersville and we enjoyed the Banquet & Grand Ball finale together. And, of course, he wore his period uniform for the big event. At that time he was trying to decide where he wanted to move down South to begin his career. He has now selected Dothan, Alabama to be his new home.
Congratulations and best wishes, Vinny. You are a true asset for SCV and Alabama will be lucky to have you as a new resident. — Karen and Tom Holley
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Thomson
Memorial Cemetery Restoration Celebration Sat., Sept. 21 10:00 a.m. |
The Thomson Memorial Cemetery Committee will host a grand event to showcase the results of three years of hard work. The goal was to restore the old Confederate cemetery to its former glory in recognition of our brave heroes. This cemetery is the final resting place for 110 CSA soldiers and has provided our camp the perfect historical site for our Confederate Memorial Day commemoration programs. With considerable help from Camp 91, the goal is nearly achieved. Come and enjoy the recognition of the fruits of your labors.
After a brief welcome, by Compatriot David Moore, committee chairman, along with the U. S. pledge and refreshments, there will be 10-12 docent stations where one can tour the cemetery and learn more about our people and heritage, including not only those from the WBTS era, but also individuals from later times.
Please come and support the TMC Committee, your camp and our Confederate heroes.
After a brief welcome, by Compatriot David Moore, committee chairman, along with the U. S. pledge and refreshments, there will be 10-12 docent stations where one can tour the cemetery and learn more about our people and heritage, including not only those from the WBTS era, but also individuals from later times.
Please come and support the TMC Committee, your camp and our Confederate heroes.
Camp 91 Accomplishments
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1. Clean up by many members & wives
2. Headstone cleaning & restoration expertise from Compatriot Mike Lacefield 3. Brickwork by Compatriot Ron Awe 4. Fence repair by friend Jimmy New 5. TMC Committee leadership: Compatriot David Moore & Commander Tom Holley |
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THE THOMSON GUARDS MONTHLY MEETING July 2024
Published in The McDuffie Progress and The Warrenton Leader
Published in The McDuffie Progress and The Warrenton Leader
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On the 23rd of June, the Thomson Guards held its monthly meeting in the Thomson – McDuffie County library. We welcomed our guests and enjoyed our opening prayer. We pledged our support for the United States and State of Georgia flags. We then saluted the Confederate flag and charged ourselves to tell the true history of the brave men who defended the South. Tom Holley and Mike Lacefield and their wives attended the SCV National Convention in Charleston and gave us all the noteworthy details of their mid-July trip.
Compatriot Lee Herron from Hiltonia, GA drove an hour and a half to present our program. Lee is a faithful member of the SCV, the SAR, and the Burke County Artillery and Skunk Hat Brigades. He and his cohorts constantly |
travel the South, entertaining and educating the public about patriotism, survival, honor and history. Lee presented us with a very interesting history of his ancestor John Jouett, a patriotic farmer and politician from Virginia and Kentucky. Jouett was a Captain in the 16th Regiment of the Virginia militia in the American Revolution. All three of his brothers also served. Jouett is best known for a 40-mile ride during the war that pegged him as the Paul Revere of the South. The all-night ride through brush and bramble was made to warn Thomas Jefferson, the outgoing governor of Virginia, and his sitting Virginia legislature, that British cavalry had been sent to capture them. He most surely saved their lives.
Afterwards, we passed the hat for donations, we thanked our visitors and our Chaplain closed the meeting with another nice prayer. Since our Camp basically does nothing but community service, our achievements are quite impressive. We mark all U.S. veterans’ graves with U.S. flags in May for Memorial Day and in November for Veterans Day. We hold a Georgia Confederate Memorial Day celebration for the public at the city cemetery in April. We post the U.S. flag, the GA flag and all military service flags along Tom Watson Way during holiday periods. We participate in Harlem’s Laurel & Hardy Festival, Thomson’s Camellia City Festival, Warrenton’s Sportsman’s Festival and this year at Wren’s Festival in October. We continue to ensure the Thomson Memorial Cemetery and all its veterans’ gravestones are maintained. We provide scholarships, monetary gratuities, book donations, and support to schools, camps and parks. We attend memorial services, banquets and other patriotic meetings all over Georgia.
Afterwards, we passed the hat for donations, we thanked our visitors and our Chaplain closed the meeting with another nice prayer. Since our Camp basically does nothing but community service, our achievements are quite impressive. We mark all U.S. veterans’ graves with U.S. flags in May for Memorial Day and in November for Veterans Day. We hold a Georgia Confederate Memorial Day celebration for the public at the city cemetery in April. We post the U.S. flag, the GA flag and all military service flags along Tom Watson Way during holiday periods. We participate in Harlem’s Laurel & Hardy Festival, Thomson’s Camellia City Festival, Warrenton’s Sportsman’s Festival and this year at Wren’s Festival in October. We continue to ensure the Thomson Memorial Cemetery and all its veterans’ gravestones are maintained. We provide scholarships, monetary gratuities, book donations, and support to schools, camps and parks. We attend memorial services, banquets and other patriotic meetings all over Georgia.
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We give of our sweat and treasury. We are the number two supporter of the GA Legal Defense Fund to stop the removal of statues of any kind in Georgia and Virginia. We mount Confederate flags in cemeteries in Thomson, Harlem, Wrightsboro and Warrenton. We remain in plain view and perform our community projects beyond any done by any other non-profit organization in our area. Our purpose is about learning our history, protecting our heritage and honoring our ancestors. We do nothing and say nothing that might bring dishonor to our camp or to our Confederate heroes. Join our camp! Contact our Camp Commander Tom Holley at [email protected] for more information.
Submitted by Lewis Smith, Camp Historian. |
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Commander's Post under Editorials by Lewis Smith
On the Jews: If statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. by Mark Twain |
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Meeting -- Tuesday, July 2024
Jack Jouett: The Paul Revere of the South
by Lee Herron
Jack Jouett: The Paul Revere of the South
by Lee Herron
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Lee Herron is the Vice President and Registrar of the Brier Creek Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution in Sylvania, GA. He is married to Tammy Forehand Herron and they live in Hiltonia, GA. They have two daughters, Courtney Herron Duffie and Summer Herron Wolfgram. They have one granddaughter Aidyn Grace Wolfgram who is 10 yrs. old and a great granddaughter Demi Grace who is 2 yrs. old.
Lee is a member of the Brier Creek Artillery & Militia “Skunk Brigade.” He retired from Procter & Gamble after 27 yrs. of service as an Industrial Maintenance Mechanic and then went to work for Kellogg and Ferrara Candy Company for the next 9 yrs. in the same capacity. He fully retired on March 17th, 2022 on the date of his father’s birthday. |
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The Skunk Brigade at Meadow Garden on July 4,
Lee Herron is fourth from left. |
His home camp is the Black Creek Volunteers #549 in Sylvania, GA and he is a Life Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (National and State of Georgia) on the service of his 2nd great grandfather Pvt. William Eason, Co. B Cobb’s Legion “Bowden Volunteers”, member of the National Society War of 1812 on the service of his 4th great grandfather Isaiah Hembree, National Society Sons and Daughters of Pilgrims on the record of his 11th great grandfather Colonel John George, and Sons of the American Revolution on the service of his 6th great grandfather 2nd LT Joseph Anthony of the Bedford County Militia in Virginia.
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Continued Restoration and Beautification of
Thomson Memorial Cemetery
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On Saturday, June 29th, Camp 91 Thomson Guards, working in conjunction with the Thomson Memorial Cemetery committee added two large pots with flowers at the main entrance. Diane Wood of Peacock Hill graciously donated the large beautiful pots. Mayor Cranford agreed to have the city regularly water the decorative flowers. On Saturday, September 21, after three years of renovation, the combined group plans a grand cemetery restoration celebration. The public will be welcomed and encouraged to attend.
Shown in top photo is Compatriot Damon Davis of the SCV
assisting Liz Yarborough of the cemetery committee.
assisting Liz Yarborough of the cemetery committee.
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Announcements
1. Please refer the camp website under About Us / Officers & Meetings, so that you can
record important meetings on your personal calendar.
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Commander Tom Holley wrote and published this manual as a convenient resource so that other camps , esp. those with new commanders, might find helpful guidelines for improving their camp’s viability. Practical ideas and specific examples are explained so they could be easily replicated or adapted. This manual was introduced by AOT Commander Jimmy Hill during the AOT recruitment training conference held this past May at the SCV headquarters in Columbia, TN.
Contact Tom if interested in ordering a copy. |
If not us, who? If not now, when?
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Celebrating Independence Day
George Walton
of Meadow Garden, Signer of the US Declaration of Independence |
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Abraham Baldwin,
Signer of the US Constitution and a Founder of University of Georgia |
Lewis Smith, camp historian, was the keynote speaker at the
14th Annual Signers Monument Celebration in downtown Augusta.
His topic was “A Look at Founding Fathers Who Are Forever Linked to Georgia,”
with an emphasis on Abraham Baldwin.
See the complete text and photos of his presentation on this website, under
Local History / Founding Fathers.
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Open House at Meadow Garden, home of George Walton, Signer of Declaration of Independence
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Karen Holley describes
a few of the many discoveries found during the current restoration process at Meadow Garden. The front door, stairway and “powder room” were all concealed since before the house was purchased by Daughters of the American Revolution in 1901. In the near future this dining room will be reinterpreted as the parlor. With only two rooms downstairs, this room would have been used by George Walton as his bedroom and law office. |
Signers’ Room (left to right):
Georgia State Regent Helen Powell with docents Karen Holley and Ginger Nicholson
Georgia State Regent Helen Powell with docents Karen Holley and Ginger Nicholson
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Thank you to
Compatriot Terry Johnson for making this wooden flag that he contributed to Camp 91 as a fundraiser. The flag replicates the flag used byGen. Robert E. Lee for his headquarters. Compatriot Paul McCorkle purchased the flag for $100. Terry will make another flag so that we can sell raffle tickets throughout the fall festival season. The winner will be announced after the Nov. 9 festival in Wrens. |
THE THOMSON GUARDS MONTHLY MEETING JUNE 2024
Published in The McDuffie Progress and The Warrenton Leader
Published in The McDuffie Progress and The Warrenton Leader
On the 25th of June, the Thomson Guards held its annual business meeting in the Thomson – McDuffie County library. After welcoming our guests, we enjoyed a Chaplain’s prayer and made our pledges to support the United States and State of Georgia flags. We then saluted the Confederate flag and charged ourselves to present the true history of the South to future generations.
During our regular business meeting we accepted a beautiful wooden Confederate flag for a future raffle, we discussed the recent GA Division reunion where we were presented with the GA Division’s Camp of the Year award, and we were reminded to submit our annual SCV dues. Our program for June was our annual business meeting. Afterwards, we passed the hat for donations, we thanked our visitors and our Chaplain closed the meeting with another nice prayer.
This month’s program, our annual business meeting, recapped all the things we did during the 2022-2023 year. Since our Camp basically does nothing but community service, our achievements were quite impressive. We marked all U.S. veterans’ graves with U.S. flags in May for Memorial Day and in November for Veterans Day. We held a terrific Georgia Confederate Memorial Day celebration for the public at the city cemetery in April with Civil War historian Dr. Hollingsworth (Augusta University professor) as guest speaker. We continued to post the U.S. flag, the GA flag and all military service flags along Tom Watson Way during holiday periods. We continued to participate in Harlem’s Laural & Hardy Festival, Thomson’s Camellia City Festival and Warrenton’s Sportsman’s Festival. This year we will also make our appearance at Wren’s Festival in October. We continued to make sure the Thomson Memorial Cemetery was kept thoroughly cleaned as well as cleaning all its veterans’ gravestones. We provided scholarships, monetary gratuities, book donations, and support to schools, camps and parks. We attended memorial services, banquets and other patriotic meetings all over Georgia. We gave of our sweat and treasury. We were the number two supporter of the GA Legal Defense Fund to stop the removal of statues of any kind in Georgia and also Virginia. We will mount Confederate flags in cemeteries in Thomson, Harlem, Wrightsboro and Warrenton this year. We will remain in plain view and perform our community projects beyond any done by any other non-profit organization in our area (in my personal opinion).
The purpose of our SCV Camp 91 is about learning our history, protecting our heritage and honoring our ancestors. We do nothing and say nothing that might bring dishonor to our camp or to our Confederate heroes. Join our camp! Contact our Camp Commander Tom Holley at [email protected] for more information. Submitted by Lewis Smith, Camp Historian.
During our regular business meeting we accepted a beautiful wooden Confederate flag for a future raffle, we discussed the recent GA Division reunion where we were presented with the GA Division’s Camp of the Year award, and we were reminded to submit our annual SCV dues. Our program for June was our annual business meeting. Afterwards, we passed the hat for donations, we thanked our visitors and our Chaplain closed the meeting with another nice prayer.
This month’s program, our annual business meeting, recapped all the things we did during the 2022-2023 year. Since our Camp basically does nothing but community service, our achievements were quite impressive. We marked all U.S. veterans’ graves with U.S. flags in May for Memorial Day and in November for Veterans Day. We held a terrific Georgia Confederate Memorial Day celebration for the public at the city cemetery in April with Civil War historian Dr. Hollingsworth (Augusta University professor) as guest speaker. We continued to post the U.S. flag, the GA flag and all military service flags along Tom Watson Way during holiday periods. We continued to participate in Harlem’s Laural & Hardy Festival, Thomson’s Camellia City Festival and Warrenton’s Sportsman’s Festival. This year we will also make our appearance at Wren’s Festival in October. We continued to make sure the Thomson Memorial Cemetery was kept thoroughly cleaned as well as cleaning all its veterans’ gravestones. We provided scholarships, monetary gratuities, book donations, and support to schools, camps and parks. We attended memorial services, banquets and other patriotic meetings all over Georgia. We gave of our sweat and treasury. We were the number two supporter of the GA Legal Defense Fund to stop the removal of statues of any kind in Georgia and also Virginia. We will mount Confederate flags in cemeteries in Thomson, Harlem, Wrightsboro and Warrenton this year. We will remain in plain view and perform our community projects beyond any done by any other non-profit organization in our area (in my personal opinion).
The purpose of our SCV Camp 91 is about learning our history, protecting our heritage and honoring our ancestors. We do nothing and say nothing that might bring dishonor to our camp or to our Confederate heroes. Join our camp! Contact our Camp Commander Tom Holley at [email protected] for more information. Submitted by Lewis Smith, Camp Historian.
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Commander’s Post
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Will July 4th, like Columbus Day,
soon simply disappear? We must speak out in defense of this sacred holiday, our Founding Fathers and the American Flag By Douglas MacKinnon |
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Founding Fathers' legacies under attack from far-left progressives
Hoover Institution senior fellow Shelby Steele joined 'One Nation with
Brian Kilmeade' (on Fox News) to discuss the far-left's war on American history.
Hoover Institution senior fellow Shelby Steele joined 'One Nation with
Brian Kilmeade' (on Fox News) to discuss the far-left's war on American history.
When I was a child, I loved the overall themes, celebrations and parades surrounding Columbus Day, a day President Franklin D. Roosevelt made a federal holiday in 1937. To me, it always conjured up images of adventure, the discovery of the "New World," and the planting of the seeds that would one day become the United States of America.
More than that, it was a day of celebration which seemed to unite all Americans… until it didn’t.
When and why did Columbus Day start to become so controversial? Like many protests against historical figures and times, much of it started with the left on our college campuses.
More than that, it was a day of celebration which seemed to unite all Americans… until it didn’t.
When and why did Columbus Day start to become so controversial? Like many protests against historical figures and times, much of it started with the left on our college campuses.
CANCEL CULTURE IN CONGRESS DATES BACK TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,
WHO REFUSED TO BE GAGGED
WHO REFUSED TO BE GAGGED
In 1992, in Berkeley, California, "Indigenous Peoples’ Day" was adopted. The idea was to swap out Columbus Day for a day that celebrates indigenous peoples. Not surprisingly, it was a movement that soon began to sweep across campuses nationwide as more and more left-leaning faculty and students condemned Christopher Columbus.
I am all for celebrating "indigenous people" and native Americans. They most certainly must be recognized, and their proud and fruitful history protected. While I am strongly in favor of that, I don’t believe it should come at the expense of competing history, facts or truths some on the left might find inconvenient.
Back in 2017, Harvard University – now a hotbed of protest, antisemitism and discrimination – adopted "Indigenous Peoples’ Day." They did so seemingly in lockstep with the far-left Cambridge City Council, which basically viewed Columbus as a war criminal.
Nadeem Mazen, the Cambridge city councilor at the time claimed in part: "At a basic level, we’re saying ‘no’ to a day named after someone who was a tyrant, and was a torturer, and was a destroyer of Indigenous people…"
I am all for celebrating "indigenous people" and native Americans. They most certainly must be recognized, and their proud and fruitful history protected. While I am strongly in favor of that, I don’t believe it should come at the expense of competing history, facts or truths some on the left might find inconvenient.
Back in 2017, Harvard University – now a hotbed of protest, antisemitism and discrimination – adopted "Indigenous Peoples’ Day." They did so seemingly in lockstep with the far-left Cambridge City Council, which basically viewed Columbus as a war criminal.
Nadeem Mazen, the Cambridge city councilor at the time claimed in part: "At a basic level, we’re saying ‘no’ to a day named after someone who was a tyrant, and was a torturer, and was a destroyer of Indigenous people…"
CRISIS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES:
WHAT UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS CAN LEARN FROM THE FOUNDING FATHERS
WHAT UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS CAN LEARN FROM THE FOUNDING FATHERS
Now, as one who has watched many in the left-of-center media, academia and alleged "historians" regularly censor, deny, invent or reimagine incontrovertible facts over the last eight years in a disgraceful effort to smear, damage, or bring down former President Donald J. Trump, I have learned to take the protests from the "defenders of history" on the left with less than a grain of salt.
Knowing that to be true, how much faith should be accorded the left’s viewing of history from centuries before? How clear is their vision when they are gazing back over 500 years through very clouded and biased
prisms of today? When they change the facts of history these last eight years, who is to say some of the "facts" the left uses to attack Columbus today can’t be wrong? To that point, others who have studied Columbus believe he sought to form good relationships with the native peoples of the New World and had no intention of doing them any harm and often fought to restrain his crew from mistreating the native peoples.
Knowing that to be true, how much faith should be accorded the left’s viewing of history from centuries before? How clear is their vision when they are gazing back over 500 years through very clouded and biased
prisms of today? When they change the facts of history these last eight years, who is to say some of the "facts" the left uses to attack Columbus today can’t be wrong? To that point, others who have studied Columbus believe he sought to form good relationships with the native peoples of the New World and had no intention of doing them any harm and often fought to restrain his crew from mistreating the native peoples.
IT’S TIME TO RESURRECT STATUES OF HEROES TORN DOWN BY THE MOB.
THEY ARE OUR NATIONAL TREASURES
THEY ARE OUR NATIONAL TREASURES
Regardless of whether the left has smeared Columbus with too broad a brush, the result is still total victory for them. Year by year, more and more Americans either stop celebrating Columbus Day, forget its existence or actively denounce it.
Not surprisingly to those paying attention, many on the far left are using the exact same tactics to smear and cancel our Founding Fathers, the 4th of July and the American flag.
But they are not names, monuments, moments or words surreptitiously being attacked in the dead of the night. They are heroes, majestic statues, courageous deeds and iconic words that are being smeared, censored and torn down in broad daylight by radicals daring you to stop them.
Our Founding Fathers did mutually pledge to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. They risked everything to declare in their Declaration of Independence from the tyrannical Crown:
Not surprisingly to those paying attention, many on the far left are using the exact same tactics to smear and cancel our Founding Fathers, the 4th of July and the American flag.
But they are not names, monuments, moments or words surreptitiously being attacked in the dead of the night. They are heroes, majestic statues, courageous deeds and iconic words that are being smeared, censored and torn down in broad daylight by radicals daring you to stop them.
Our Founding Fathers did mutually pledge to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. They risked everything to declare in their Declaration of Independence from the tyrannical Crown:
MEET THE AMERICAN WHO WAS THE 'WORKING MAN' FOUNDING FATHER,
IRISH IRONSMITH GEORGE TAYLOR
IRISH IRONSMITH GEORGE TAYLOR
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Those of us who do strongly believe in the vision and genius of our Founding Fathers still represent a majority in our nation. We are the "governed," but for far too many years, we have not been asked – or given – our "consent." Even though we are the majority, we have allowed the forces of the left to silence our voices far too many times.
I say this as one who three-plus years ago, spent months "living" in the 1776 timeframe. I did so because I was doing research for a book. Two years ago, that book, "The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence" was published.
The sole reason for writing that book was to warn of the left’s escalating attempts to cancel the 4th of July, the American flag and our Founding Fathers, and outline how best to stop them.
President Reagan – who I had the honor to write for in the White House – once famously and presciently said: "Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction…"
I – and many others – believe that generation of loss is now upon us. But I maintain that we can reverse that trend, save our freedom and reestablish the vision of our Founding Fathers in less than a generation. All we must do is reclaim our voices and reassert our consent.
As fewer and fewer of us pause to celebrate the true meaning and glory of the 4th of July, the best way to begin to reclaim our voices would be by speaking out in defense of this sacred holiday, our Founding Fathers and the American flag.
For if we don’t, they will surely suffer the same fate as Columbus Day.
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the book: "The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence."
Those of us who do strongly believe in the vision and genius of our Founding Fathers still represent a majority in our nation. We are the "governed," but for far too many years, we have not been asked – or given – our "consent." Even though we are the majority, we have allowed the forces of the left to silence our voices far too many times.
I say this as one who three-plus years ago, spent months "living" in the 1776 timeframe. I did so because I was doing research for a book. Two years ago, that book, "The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence" was published.
The sole reason for writing that book was to warn of the left’s escalating attempts to cancel the 4th of July, the American flag and our Founding Fathers, and outline how best to stop them.
President Reagan – who I had the honor to write for in the White House – once famously and presciently said: "Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction…"
I – and many others – believe that generation of loss is now upon us. But I maintain that we can reverse that trend, save our freedom and reestablish the vision of our Founding Fathers in less than a generation. All we must do is reclaim our voices and reassert our consent.
As fewer and fewer of us pause to celebrate the true meaning and glory of the 4th of July, the best way to begin to reclaim our voices would be by speaking out in defense of this sacred holiday, our Founding Fathers and the American flag.
For if we don’t, they will surely suffer the same fate as Columbus Day.
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the book: "The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence."
Source: https://apple.news/AC2YgeICsQwmIyDvV8-WXxQ — Fox News On Air: July 18, 2022, 06:33