THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

“Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.”

The biggest failure of the Greatest_Generation was that after living through the the ‘Great Depression’ and saving the world from from Fascism they despreately wanted to spare their children, who they spawned in great abundance, the hardships that they went through. But they didn’t pay attention to what was really happening. The Long_march_through_the_institutions had begun, and they would utilize our own freedoms and Constitutional rights against us. Aided and abetted by an out of control judiciary hell bent on rewriting the Constitution as they saw fit. Because they could.

The irony is the Soviet Union collapsed. But the infection of Marxism/Communism simply found a new host. And this evil poison was injected into three generations of our young people by none other then the schoolteachers of our children, whose salaries and health care are paid for by the taxpayers of their towns.

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

Hard times are coming Hopefully Srong men will return. Though probably not in my lifetime. The chaos that is enveloped the nation wasn’t spontaneous. This has been building for decades. The death of George Floyd by the knee of a Minneapolis simply lit the fuse to a powder keg that was already there.

In spite of the Pandemic and the rioting which has roiled the nation, our Country is 244 years old today. It’s still worth celebrating.

So here’s to the fourth of July, Independence day for the U.S.A. . “A Republuc if we can keep it.“