Comments on: Letter From Valley Forge

By: rhfrost

rhfrost — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:39:40 +0000

The so-called term religious right is a misnomer placed on a group of believers' in a sovereign God above all man made religions. They do not hate anyone but pray to free each creation of a loving Father from the sins of this world, enveloping the promise given to them at birth with a hope of a eternity with the Savior of all mankind, Jesus Christ. The world wants to include them in a worldly religion, but they deal with a relationship as St. John describes in 1 John 4 "Perfect Love Casts out fear". Please trust in Jesus and his eternal love in you. All things are possible through God. Our country is a Christian Country. One founding father, a Christian, said we were the last best hope of all mankind. Keep the Faith……….

By: rhfrost

rhfrost — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:39:11 +0000

Praise to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As we look towards our ancestry as a free nation in these United States I always point to the Pilgrims and the Puritans. We all came from either the two. For the last 70 or so years the society has been getting sloppy and lazy in our cultural ethic of responsibility. As a monument on the Chelmsford, Massachusetts green points out over a revelutionary war grave says: These men died for the freedom we have, and it is up to succeeding generations to guard the freedom.

By: Tchristemac

Tchristemac — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:56:38 +0000

That is a great letter and a testament to our soldiers…..I have said it a bunch this past weekend and will say it again… THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE!

By: TheSwabbie

TheSwabbie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:20:09 +0000

Dan,

Thank you for that letter, how tremendous that you have something so tangible from your ancestor. I recently discovered 2 of my ancestors served during the Revolutionary War in North Carolina. One was a Colonel, the other a Major. The Major was captured at the disasterous battle of Camden South Carolina and somehow died at the hands of the British. Little is know of his death other than that. He is buried in Columbia South Carolina. I dont live far from there and would love to find his grave and pay my respects. We owe much to these men who started the fire and continued until we were free. Our freedom only continues because of the enormous cost that has been paid over the last 233 years. God Bless.

By: pablo

pablo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:44:20 +0000

Steppenwolf: Monster Suicide America…

Youtube it, pay attention to the lyrics.

By: cruzin

cruzin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:04:26 +0000

I had a grand father(many G's) that helped build Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga. also a grandfather that immigrated to New Hamshire from Canada to fight for the colonist . My other side of the family were from out west where they fought the "white devils " that stole their land.

By: aharris

aharris — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:30:44 +0000

I know on one side that we immigrated from England some time after the Revolutionary War and started a fairly successful ceramics/tableware business in the Cincinatti area, but at some point, a branchof the family broke off and moved west to Kansas to become gentleman farmers. We've been there ever since.

It's pretty untraceable on the other side due to some paternity issues a few generations back.

My husband is adopted, so who knows with him?

By: Louise B

Louise B — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:36:01 +0000

When my daughter had to do a family history report for her Spanish class (we live in New Mexico,) she discovered that although one branch of the family tree fought in the Revolution, all the rest were populated with either rebels (and had to escape the original homeland) or scientists (my grandfather developed a battery that enabled our submarines to stay down longer during WWII even though he had Parkinson's disease). I told her that was a noble heritage to have. She heads off to college in the fall to study biology with an eye toward medical research. I guess she's going the scientist route.

By: KrisNewEngland

KrisNewEngland — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:43:40 +0000

Descended from Pennacook Indians here. Originally part of the larger Iroquois tribe, which was divided by the colonists and the British. Which began their downfall.

But I don't hold a grudge. I grew up in MA and currently live in CT. I love that we in New England "started it all" – I'm very proud of that, despite what it did to some of my ancestors. Fact is, if the colonists hadn't betrayed the Indians, the British certainly would have. They had already started to divide the tribe by the mid 1700's.

By: Bilwick

Bilwick — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:37:30 +0000

I wonder what Obama did for the Fourth. Usually the president appears at some kind of celebration or makes some kind of speech; and usually its buncombe because nearly every president of the 20th and 21st Centuries, with the exception of Reagan maybe, is involved with undoing the legacy of the Founders. But if there is one president who is diametrically opposed to the classical-liberal ideals that led to the Declaration of Independence, it's our current president, "Il Dufe." Instead of the spirit of Locke and Paine ("the government that governs best governs least), The World's Greatest Community Organizer's motto seems to be Mussolini's "Everything for the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." Anything he might say on the Fourth related to the origins of the holiday would have to be so hypocritical even he would have to choke on the words.