The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today:<\/p>\n
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Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago<\/a>, and saved it for this post, so thank you Spoogels, and Happy Independence Day to all of us. Stay strong, resolute, and proud<\/em>. Spoogels says: May 27, 2019 at 9:25am<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nEDITOR\u2019S NOTE<\/a>: When this column first appeared in JWR two decades ago, on May 28, 1999, it was read on radio stations across the nation and went on to become what would, years later, come to be termed \u201cviral\u201d. We wish that the author, a long-time friend of JWR\u2019s publisher, were still writing today. PLEASE SHARE via social media. \u201cAn American credo, By Don Feder\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\nON THE DAY when we memorialize those who gave their lives so America would endure, we should ask what it means a citizen of this republic. Here are the thoughts of one American, a credo for the coming millennia.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I was conceived at Plymouth, born in Lexington and Concord, and reached maturity at Philadelphia.<\/strong><\/p>\nI went through the fires of Shiloh, Gualdacanal, the Chosin Resovoir, Khe Sanh and a thousand other battlefields, and emerged rededicated to the ideals on which America was founded.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Ever ready to defend my liberty and independence, to make any sacrifice and bear any burden \u2013 still, I seek no quarrel.<\/strong><\/p>\nI march to the sound of the guns out of necessity alone. I fight not for glory or territory, or to make others bend to my will, but to vindicate my rights and preserve my freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I\u2019m proud of my past. Words like Valley Forge, Gettysburg Address and Pearl Harbor \u2014 names like Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt \u2014 make my blood stir.<\/strong><\/p>\n\nGlancing behind me, I see generations of men and women who labored and struggled, lived and died to let me stand where I am today \u2014 who cleared the land, planted the crops, built the factories, raised the cities and made the discoveries that created a civilization which all the silent, suffering ranks of slaves, serfs and subjects who came before them could never imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America\u2019s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation\u2019s destiny.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
EDITOR\u2019S NOTE<\/a>: When this column first appeared in JWR two decades ago, on May 28, 1999, it was read on radio stations across the nation and went on to become what would, years later, come to be termed \u201cviral\u201d. We wish that the author, a long-time friend of JWR\u2019s publisher, were still writing today. PLEASE SHARE via social media. \u201cAn American credo, By Don Feder\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\nON THE DAY when we memorialize those who gave their lives so America would endure, we should ask what it means a citizen of this republic. Here are the thoughts of one American, a credo for the coming millennia.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I was conceived at Plymouth, born in Lexington and Concord, and reached maturity at Philadelphia.<\/strong><\/p>\nI went through the fires of Shiloh, Gualdacanal, the Chosin Resovoir, Khe Sanh and a thousand other battlefields, and emerged rededicated to the ideals on which America was founded.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Ever ready to defend my liberty and independence, to make any sacrifice and bear any burden \u2013 still, I seek no quarrel.<\/strong><\/p>\nI march to the sound of the guns out of necessity alone. I fight not for glory or territory, or to make others bend to my will, but to vindicate my rights and preserve my freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I\u2019m proud of my past. Words like Valley Forge, Gettysburg Address and Pearl Harbor \u2014 names like Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt \u2014 make my blood stir.<\/strong><\/p>\n\nGlancing behind me, I see generations of men and women who labored and struggled, lived and died to let me stand where I am today \u2014 who cleared the land, planted the crops, built the factories, raised the cities and made the discoveries that created a civilization which all the silent, suffering ranks of slaves, serfs and subjects who came before them could never imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America\u2019s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation\u2019s destiny.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
ON THE DAY when we memorialize those who gave their lives so America would endure, we should ask what it means a citizen of this republic. Here are the thoughts of one American, a credo for the coming millennia.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I was conceived at Plymouth, born in Lexington and Concord, and reached maturity at Philadelphia.<\/strong><\/p>\nI went through the fires of Shiloh, Gualdacanal, the Chosin Resovoir, Khe Sanh and a thousand other battlefields, and emerged rededicated to the ideals on which America was founded.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Ever ready to defend my liberty and independence, to make any sacrifice and bear any burden \u2013 still, I seek no quarrel.<\/strong><\/p>\nI march to the sound of the guns out of necessity alone. I fight not for glory or territory, or to make others bend to my will, but to vindicate my rights and preserve my freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I\u2019m proud of my past. Words like Valley Forge, Gettysburg Address and Pearl Harbor \u2014 names like Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt \u2014 make my blood stir.<\/strong><\/p>\n\nGlancing behind me, I see generations of men and women who labored and struggled, lived and died to let me stand where I am today \u2014 who cleared the land, planted the crops, built the factories, raised the cities and made the discoveries that created a civilization which all the silent, suffering ranks of slaves, serfs and subjects who came before them could never imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America\u2019s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation\u2019s destiny.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. I was conceived at Plymouth, born in Lexington and Concord, and reached maturity at Philadelphia.<\/strong><\/p>\nI went through the fires of Shiloh, Gualdacanal, the Chosin Resovoir, Khe Sanh and a thousand other battlefields, and emerged rededicated to the ideals on which America was founded.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Ever ready to defend my liberty and independence, to make any sacrifice and bear any burden \u2013 still, I seek no quarrel.<\/strong><\/p>\nI march to the sound of the guns out of necessity alone. I fight not for glory or territory, or to make others bend to my will, but to vindicate my rights and preserve my freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I\u2019m proud of my past. Words like Valley Forge, Gettysburg Address and Pearl Harbor \u2014 names like Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt \u2014 make my blood stir.<\/strong><\/p>\n\nGlancing behind me, I see generations of men and women who labored and struggled, lived and died to let me stand where I am today \u2014 who cleared the land, planted the crops, built the factories, raised the cities and made the discoveries that created a civilization which all the silent, suffering ranks of slaves, serfs and subjects who came before them could never imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America\u2019s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation\u2019s destiny.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I went through the fires of Shiloh, Gualdacanal, the Chosin Resovoir, Khe Sanh and a thousand other battlefields, and emerged rededicated to the ideals on which America was founded.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Ever ready to defend my liberty and independence, to make any sacrifice and bear any burden \u2013 still, I seek no quarrel.<\/strong><\/p>\nI march to the sound of the guns out of necessity alone. I fight not for glory or territory, or to make others bend to my will, but to vindicate my rights and preserve my freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I\u2019m proud of my past. Words like Valley Forge, Gettysburg Address and Pearl Harbor \u2014 names like Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt \u2014 make my blood stir.<\/strong><\/p>\n\nGlancing behind me, I see generations of men and women who labored and struggled, lived and died to let me stand where I am today \u2014 who cleared the land, planted the crops, built the factories, raised the cities and made the discoveries that created a civilization which all the silent, suffering ranks of slaves, serfs and subjects who came before them could never imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America\u2019s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation\u2019s destiny.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. Ever ready to defend my liberty and independence, to make any sacrifice and bear any burden \u2013 still, I seek no quarrel.<\/strong><\/p>\nI march to the sound of the guns out of necessity alone. I fight not for glory or territory, or to make others bend to my will, but to vindicate my rights and preserve my freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I\u2019m proud of my past. Words like Valley Forge, Gettysburg Address and Pearl Harbor \u2014 names like Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt \u2014 make my blood stir.<\/strong><\/p>\n\nGlancing behind me, I see generations of men and women who labored and struggled, lived and died to let me stand where I am today \u2014 who cleared the land, planted the crops, built the factories, raised the cities and made the discoveries that created a civilization which all the silent, suffering ranks of slaves, serfs and subjects who came before them could never imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America\u2019s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation\u2019s destiny.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I march to the sound of the guns out of necessity alone. I fight not for glory or territory, or to make others bend to my will, but to vindicate my rights and preserve my freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I\u2019m proud of my past. Words like Valley Forge, Gettysburg Address and Pearl Harbor \u2014 names like Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt \u2014 make my blood stir.<\/strong><\/p>\n\nGlancing behind me, I see generations of men and women who labored and struggled, lived and died to let me stand where I am today \u2014 who cleared the land, planted the crops, built the factories, raised the cities and made the discoveries that created a civilization which all the silent, suffering ranks of slaves, serfs and subjects who came before them could never imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America\u2019s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation\u2019s destiny.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. I\u2019m proud of my past. Words like Valley Forge, Gettysburg Address and Pearl Harbor \u2014 names like Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt \u2014 make my blood stir.<\/strong><\/p>\n\nGlancing behind me, I see generations of men and women who labored and struggled, lived and died to let me stand where I am today \u2014 who cleared the land, planted the crops, built the factories, raised the cities and made the discoveries that created a civilization which all the silent, suffering ranks of slaves, serfs and subjects who came before them could never imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America\u2019s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation\u2019s destiny.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Glancing behind me, I see generations of men and women who labored and struggled, lived and died to let me stand where I am today \u2014 who cleared the land, planted the crops, built the factories, raised the cities and made the discoveries that created a civilization which all the silent, suffering ranks of slaves, serfs and subjects who came before them could never imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America\u2019s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation\u2019s destiny.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. 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I am an American. While recognizing the errors that were made in nation-building (has a nation ever been built exclusively on light?), I proclaim America\u2019s past glorious indeed, a boon to humanity, and consider myself among the blessed of the earth to share this nation\u2019s destiny.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. 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Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. Liberty is my birthright. To speak my mind, choose my leaders and legislators, defend my home and family, and worship the Creator in my fashion \u2014 these are not privileges, but G od-given rights. Governments can respect or deny them; they cannot change them.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. I have no rulers. Those who make, interpret and enforce our laws are servants. When they no longer recognize that verity, their authority loses legitimacy.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. 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I am an American. My rights are a sacred trust to be exercised in the cause of justice and virtue. They are not the playthings of a spoiled child or mechanisms of self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. English is my language. Our ancestors arrived on these shores speaking everything from Chinese to Yiddish. It was English that united us, that allowed us to overcome age-old antagonisms.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
From the Mayflower Compact to the latest piece of legislation introduced in Congress, our history and heritage are written in the tongue of the Magna Carta and the King James Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. I have no distinctive race, religion or ethnicity. I am black, white, yellow, brown and red \u2014 Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Hindu. I came here from the hamlets of Old England, the bogs of Ireland, Napoli\u2019s sunny shore, the Pale of Settlement and the villages of Vietnam. American isn\u2019t a color or creed, but a state of mind.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. I welcome immigrants who are here to work and build, who identify with our past and ideals, who were spiritual Americans before they landed. Broken English is fine, as long as faith remains unbroken. An American speaks with the heart as much as the lips.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. My ism is Americanism. I reject all dogmas and ideologies. Collectivism, racism, militarism and imperialism have no place here. The rot that\u2019s eaten away at the soul of so many nations and cultures must be fiercely resisted.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. I recognize only one loyalty higher than allegiance to our flag \u2014 faith in G od. I acknowledge that America and G od, the physical and the spiritual, are inseparable. America was founded by people of faith and grew to greatness by His grace. I pray that we will always be the instruments of His will.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. I weep over the fact that American history is no longer taught in our schools. In its place is a worldly, cynical skepticism inculcated by authors and educators at war with our basic values.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. I cringe at the collection of connivers, cowards, clowns and quacks that passes for our political leadership. I wonder that so many of my compatriots have no idea what America means and show no gratitude for the blessings that are theirs.<\/strong><\/p>\nI am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am an American. My ranks grow thin; the night closes in. Whether I will be the last of my kind or the vanguard of their resurgence, only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\nSOURCE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPosted in <\/span>Celebrations<\/a>, Christian Values<\/a>, Patriotism<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGod bless America. Stand strong if you believe in the things our Founding Fathers fought for.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following was posted at The Conservative Treehouse today: Happy Fourth of July July 4, 2021 | Menagerie | 134 Comments Treepers, as you can see below, I copied this from Spoogels comments several years ago, and saved it for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5888,11430],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-independence-day","tag-the-conservative-treehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42533,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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