Tag Archives: WWII

Enter the Story

Yesterday we commemorated the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Code named Operation Overlord, the successful Allied effort to establish a beachhead on the shores of France, this monumental day was the first step in the long slog toward taking Berlin in our quest to defeat Nazi Germany. This critical moment in world […]

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Garden of Republic

Every year, on the final Monday in May, Americans pause to honor all of those who “died while in the military service.” There is no greater gift one can give to his or her country. From the brave ones who fell from the first shots fired at Lexington-Concord, to the latest American casualty brought home […]

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The Patriot.01 – A Patriot’s Baseline

The year I came into the world (1951), America was awash in patriotism. Our soldiers and sailors, marines and airmen had, just a few years earlier, returned home from delivering decisive victories in the Pacific and Atlantic theaters of WWII. We had not only trampled our enemies under our feet, we had extended the hand […]

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Enter The Story Part 1

Be on the lookout for a new series … THE PATRIOT … COMING SOON! You are reading Part 1 of an article I originally published on my old Kingdom>>Church>>Culture blog. The article was posted on June 11, 2008. The American story has captivated the world. In 1831, Alexis deTocqueville, a French politician and historian, traveled […]

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Ideas: Nation Building

“Politics is downstream of culture, and culture is downstream of religion.” In my last post I wrote: “At least two generations of American students have suffered under the anemic regime of a revisionist American history. Don’t misunderstand. I’m not into whitewashing the unseemly elements of our nation’s past. We need to pursue the truth, wherever it […]

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