Dealing With Columbus day

Taken from a chapter in the book How to Raise an American were celebrating our monthly Patriots Birthday Party today with our 9-year old son, honoring today, Columbus

Each month we have a Patriot’s Birthday Party held for a famous American, or in this case someone who open the new world to further exploration and settlements, and bringing the modern world to indigenous peoples who were still living in the stone age. That’s right, 5000 years after the wheel was first used in the old world the people of the new world had not even discovered the wheel yet.

We will not only discuss what the person did to make them special, but what America was like at the time, what they wore, and what they ate. Often he will get a small gift related to the person or event, like today he got a real compass, and a lesson in basic map navigation like Columbus would have needed to know how to do. We also plan our meal around it, tonight having Italian. When possible we will also watch a movie or documentary together about the person, or get a book from the library.

It’s great fun and educational, and he can’t wait to see who I pick next month.

Others were:

Ben Franklin - always Philly Cheese Steak night, Boston Baked beans; and French Fries in honor of him being the first ambassador to France. Then maybe watch the movie 1776

John Glenn –makes a great TV Dinner night, and the astronaut movie choices are endless.

Get the Idea?

The possibilities are as much planning for as doing it. Reagan, Washington, Harry Truman, Sally Ride, Helen Keller, Lou Gehrig, Henry Ford, Jesse Owen, Walt Disney, Jackie Robinson, Abe Lincoln, Father Flanagan, and on and on.

***Can’t blame him for western civilization coming this way.***

If Colombus had not discovered the New World it would have been discovered a few years later by the Portugese on their way to India by way of circumventing Africa.

And if the Indians had discovered the OLD WORLD they would have still died off due to European diseases.

Every year the debate rages around this time whether the expansion of European civilization into the western hemisphere was a positive or negative development in human history.

Funny how that 'debate' coincides with ever expanding multiculturalism which just happen to become the national mantra after 1965. Of course the unchecked invasion into our country might have something to do with it too.

Is everyone aware that Columbus named the first island he came to San Salvador? Holy Savior?

Masons tried to change it at one time, but it still retains the Catholic name.

How many cities, states, etc. in the United States have Catholic or Christian names? A lot — Especially along El Camino Rael in California. All saints names — ssssh — don’t tell the people in California that San Francisco was really named San Francisco de Assisi.

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