George Washington
retreated to Valley Forge for safety in the winters during the
revolutionary war. History remembers 10,000 troops settling in tents in
a freezing winter. 4,000 of them without blankets and many without
shoes. 2,000 never receive blankets though they managed to build small
barracks housing 12 soldiers each. 2,500 of them died that winter.
America's Valley Forge ended with more troops than they started. They
were ready to fight and disciplined for war despite the hardships.
Benjamin Franklin wrote George Washington from France, "you would, on this side of the sea, enjoy the great reputation you have acquired. I frequently hear the old generals of this martial country, who study maps of America and mark upon them all your operations, speak with sincere approbation and great applause of your conduct, and join in giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age."
Washington himself wrote after Valley Forge, "grateful thanks due to the great Author of all the care and good that have been extended in relieving us in difficulties and distress."
Martha Washington visited her husband in every winter of the campaign. She arrived in Valley Forge with carriages full of clothing, medicine, and blankets. She organized other women to help. She repaired torn clothes and acted proving medical relief.
There needs to be a return to the common sense and American values delivered from Valley Forge -- forged in blood, tears, and agony. We need to treat our tax dollars as a sacred trust. We need to restore confidence in the American institutions that got us here. We need to rely on the "invisible hand of providence" to deliver us from our "difficulties and distress."
We need to remove the huge staffs of congress and in the executive branch. We need to restore our freedom to have a fair jury. We need to restore our rights as American citizens to freedom of religion in the manner set up by our founding fathers. We need a free press and to remove the right of the government to block it in any circumstances. We need to remove regulations which govern by oppression. We need a fair tax, not a progressive tax which is a hallmark of communist regimes. A good start would be the list in the book, "Throw Them All Out", which suggests solutions in a few pages of how to remove greed and graft from Washington.
George Washington continued his Valley Forge as he took oversight in the building of our nation -- both the constitution and the presidency. His greatest enemy was Muslim nations who took 25 percent of all of our tax dollars as ransom for us to free them from slavery. He established the marines and a navy and sent them over to fight again for our right to a free market on the open seas.
Today our free market system and the inalienable rights preserved by the republic's constitution mean something only to the degree that we still follow them. They have held us in good stead for many years. Our nation started out restoring freedom to those slaves who were sold into our country as slave labor. Two of the signers of the declaration of independence were black. The heritage of being American was bought in blood by all of us. It is time we vote in representatives that believe in our own form of government.
Benjamin Franklin wrote George Washington from France, "you would, on this side of the sea, enjoy the great reputation you have acquired. I frequently hear the old generals of this martial country, who study maps of America and mark upon them all your operations, speak with sincere approbation and great applause of your conduct, and join in giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age."
Washington himself wrote after Valley Forge, "grateful thanks due to the great Author of all the care and good that have been extended in relieving us in difficulties and distress."
Martha Washington visited her husband in every winter of the campaign. She arrived in Valley Forge with carriages full of clothing, medicine, and blankets. She organized other women to help. She repaired torn clothes and acted proving medical relief.
There needs to be a return to the common sense and American values delivered from Valley Forge -- forged in blood, tears, and agony. We need to treat our tax dollars as a sacred trust. We need to restore confidence in the American institutions that got us here. We need to rely on the "invisible hand of providence" to deliver us from our "difficulties and distress."
We need to remove the huge staffs of congress and in the executive branch. We need to restore our freedom to have a fair jury. We need to restore our rights as American citizens to freedom of religion in the manner set up by our founding fathers. We need a free press and to remove the right of the government to block it in any circumstances. We need to remove regulations which govern by oppression. We need a fair tax, not a progressive tax which is a hallmark of communist regimes. A good start would be the list in the book, "Throw Them All Out", which suggests solutions in a few pages of how to remove greed and graft from Washington.
George Washington continued his Valley Forge as he took oversight in the building of our nation -- both the constitution and the presidency. His greatest enemy was Muslim nations who took 25 percent of all of our tax dollars as ransom for us to free them from slavery. He established the marines and a navy and sent them over to fight again for our right to a free market on the open seas.
Today our free market system and the inalienable rights preserved by the republic's constitution mean something only to the degree that we still follow them. They have held us in good stead for many years. Our nation started out restoring freedom to those slaves who were sold into our country as slave labor. Two of the signers of the declaration of independence were black. The heritage of being American was bought in blood by all of us. It is time we vote in representatives that believe in our own form of government.
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