Posted on 07/03/2009 6:55:59 AM PDT by captjanaway
As many people across the nation enjoy a day off for July 4th, the grills will be fired up and the fireworks will light up the night sky. It is a time for celebrating our nation’s freedom from the British government’s tyranny and control over a group of independent patriots, determined to build a nation based upon individual freedoms and rights. While the current trend in Washington is to move toward the oppressive, suffocating monstrosity of big government (which is spawning TEA Parties across the nation), it is a time for my family and me to reflect, not only on the sacrifices of those in 1776 who left their homes and families to fight to build this great nation, but also on those who, generations later, advanced that courageous mission.
From the Stanfields and Reeps in the American Revolution to the Taylors, Stanfields, Nichols and Reeps in the Civil War to those family members who fought from World War Two to Iraq, mine is an ancestry of men whose love of God, country and family kept them on the front lines.
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Thank you. More like this, please!
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