Fourth of July

Courtesy of the red, white and blue - Toby Keith

American Soldier - Toby Keith

Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning - Alan Jackson

God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood

Have You Forgotten? - Darryl Worley

Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly - Aaron Tippin

The 8th of Novemeber - Big and Rich

                                         

Made in America - Toby Keith

Veteran's Day 2012

Thank You to those who are willing to sacrifice for family and freedom.

 This is from around the time my niece served on the Ike, keeping the Hornets flying.

This is the Ike I remember from when I was a kid; The mighty F14's ready to defend

George and George

 From the Deleware official website is this:

Little Known Facts about the American Revolutionary War

King George almost abdicated the throne when the British lost!

      After Yorktown, George III vowed to keep fighting. When parliament demurred, the King wrote a letter of abdication -- then withdrew it. He tried to console himself with the thought that Washington would become a dictator and make the Americans long for royal rule. When he was told that Washington planned to resign his commission, the monarch gasped: "If he does that, sir, he will be the greatest man in the world."

Ike To The Rescue

My niece is on this little boat.

USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, At Sea (NNS) -- Only hours after departing for its 2010 deployment, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) diverted from flight operations to assist the U.S. Coast Guard in a rescue at sea the night of Jan. 2, saving the life of a stranded mariner.

56 Men

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

*Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

*Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army;
another had two sons captured.

*Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

*They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, Nine were farmers and large
plantation owners; men of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence
knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

*Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the
British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

*Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost
constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding.
His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of *Dillery, *Hall, *Clymer, *Walton, *Gwinnett,
*Heyward, *Ruttledge, and *Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, *Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had
taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington
to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

*Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died
within a few months.

*John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives.
His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves,
returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.

Remember: freedom is never free!



(Found somewhere on the internet)