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Veterans for Constitution Restoration is a non-profit, non-partisan educational and grassroots activist organization. The primary area of concern to all VetsCoR members is that our national and local educational systems fall short in teaching students and all American citizens the history and underlying principles on which our Constitutional republic-based system of self-government was founded. VetsCoR members are also very concerned that the Federal government long ago over-stepped its limited authority as clearly specified in the United States Constitution, as well as the Founding Fathers' supporting letters, essays, and other public documents.

Actively seeking volunteers to provide this valuable service to Veterans and their families.

Tribute to a Generation - The memorial will be dedicated on Saturday, May 29, 2004.

Thanks to CholeraJoe for providing this link.

Iraq Homecoming Tips

~ Thanks to our Veterans still serving, at home and abroad. ~ Freepmail to Ragtime Cowgirl | 2/09/04 | FRiend in the USAF

PDN members and fans. We hope you will consider this simple act of patriotism worth passing on or taking up as a project in your own back yard. In summary:

Who They Are: Operation: Stitches Of Love was started by the Mothers of two United States Marines stationed in Iraq.

What They Are Doing: We are gathering 12.5"x12.5" quilt squares from across the country and assembling the largest quilt ever produced. When completed we will take the quilt from state to state and gather even more squares.

Why They Are Doing This: We are building this quilt to rally support for the Coalition Forces in Iraq and to show the service members that they are not forgotten. We want the world to know Nothing will ever break the stitches that bind us together as a country.

Ideas to start a local project:

Obtain enough Red, White and Blue material (cloth) for a 12.5 x 12.5 quilt square.
If you have someone in your family that sews, make it a weekend project and invite neighbors to join you.

Consider this tribute as a project for your civic group, scouts, church or townhall group.

Locate an elementary school with an after school program in your neighborhood or locate an after school program in your neighborhood not attached to a school and ask if you could volunteer one or two afternoons and create some squares with the kids.

Invite some VFW posts to share your project in honor of their post.

Send us webmaster@patriotwatch.com for digital photos of in progress and finished project for various websites, OIFII.com and the media.

PDN is making this appeal in support of Operation: Stitches Of Love
Media Contact: Deborah Johns (916) 716-2749
Volunteers & Alternate Media: PDN (916) 448-1636

Your friends at PDN

UPDATED THROUGH APRIL 2004

The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul

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"The FReeper Foxhole Compiled List of Daily Threads"

Amazing - Forrest joined the the fight as a private when he was 40 years old and outfitted his own cavalry.

Some quotes from the wizard of the saddle:

"I did all in my power to break up the government, but I have found it a useless undertaking, and am now resolved to stand by the government as earnestly and as honestly as I fought." - NBF, after the war
"I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars and came out a beggar."-NBF
"I came out of the war pretty well wrecked...completely used up, shot all to pieces, crippled up...a beggar."-NBF
"This is my country. I am hard at work upon my plantation and carefully observing the obligations of my parole. If the Federal government does not regard it they will be sorry. I shall not go away."-Forrest, responding to a suggestion that he should leave the country to avoid being arrested and tried for treason.
"We have already lost all but honor by the last war and I must say, that in order to be men, we must protect our honor at all hazards and we must also protect our homes and families. -Nathan Bedford Forrest
"We were born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?" - NBF, addressing the African-American community of Memphis at the city fairgrounds, July 5, 1875.
"I want our country quiet once more, amd I want to see our people united and working together harmoniously."-NBF
"Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together."-Nathan Bedford Forrest, calling for and end to civil unrest.

These quotes came from the booklet May I Quote You, General Forrest edited by Randall Bedwell, published by Cumberland House, 1997.