As your family, my family has it’s roots in St. Augustine with it’s changing ownership from Spain to France and finally America. Another root sold off holdings in what is now Buckingham Palace, temporarily settling in the original Thirteen colonies before heading to Florida. From my mothers side, we have the distinguished fortune of both the Scottish and the Irish who quickly made their way to the new west which at that time was Chicago! As in your family, we had many who were circuit riding preachers sharing their faith in God and the faithfulness of Jesus and encouraging all who would listen not to forget the sacrifices that had been made for the free lives they currently lived! I look back at those lives and feel s sense of excitement and pride, while they most likely felt physically drained at the exhausting cost of personal freedom and happy that their children were born free!

What is the cost that you and I will be willing to pay in the near future? To what end will our children be willing to fight oppression and suppression of truth? Now is the time we must examine our hearts and decide when and how to instruct our children about the hope of our salvation, the hope of our future! Like our founding fathers who first were seeking freedom to worship freely the God of creation, our children must know that there is a hope within earshot and calling upon Jesus is the decisive first utterence from their mouths! Just as God promised Israel many times “that the battle has ALREADY been won and delivered to you hands”, we too should be mindful that our founding fathers first called upon God to bless and keep this nation! Will HE not defend those who call upon HIM in times of trouble? No matter the wrong committed, HIS defence of Israel was steadfast and we should not expect any less! We should not wither at the likes of Billery and his/her likes. Instead, our love toward one another, as many have shared and written here, should be our inspiration going forward.

The NET has brought our worlds closer, and I for one look forward to the day when I can meet each of you personally to acknowledge your poingant writings that were inspring to me at a time when I was at my must vulnerable! And I see this happening as we each faithfully attack the works of darkness in the hearts of those that seek to deceive us, no matter which side of the isle they’re on in Congress or our communities! Stand fast in truth, as the gentleness of your responses will disarm those that seek to undermine the work of our fathers! Grace and peace to you all…

A fine tribute as well. And you’re right about McCain. If Repubs want a non-Dem, they’ll be well advised to avoid McCain.

Look at his pals. The “McCain-Feingold bill”, the “McCain-Kerrey bill” (Bob Kerrey, Nebraska Democrat), the “McCain-Feinstein bill,” the “McCain-Lieberman bill,” the “McCain-Leahy bill,” the “McCain-Edwards-Kennedy bill” and even the “McCain-Kerry” bill – the list goes on.

John McCain has been in bed with more liberals than a 20-year veteran Berkeley whore.

They are the MSM, TV, movies and radio. Where they should shut-up, because they have nothing important to say, yet they have the biggest mouths!

I quit taking the newspaper, cancelled my magazine subscriptions, and quit watching TV for quite awhile now. I will NOT support these jacka*****.
who hate everything about this country and promote sexual lasciviouness of everykind.

BUT, why are they still here??? Because they are hypocrites, liars, traitors, and every negative adjective one can think of. These people are bad, and will cause our nation great harm in the future. Your children will have no hope under these mopheads.

We like to blame the politicians for our sad state of affairs, and most of them would be hung in a just world. However, the people freely elected their officials and have brought about this soft revolution through their own will. Constitutional republics don’t seem very immune to contracting political AIDS.

The left understands that this is a revolution. What they don’t understand is that events like the twin towers are mere sparks in the coming inferno. Arm yourselves and pray.

But you’re right: this should be a time of reflection and recognition of the sacrifices our ancestors made to be in this country and to defend it.

My maternal grandfather – Wilhelm Lautenslager – served in the U.S. Navy during WWI. He was born in Pennsylvania of German immigrant parents. His parents spoke only German, but there he was, a first generation American, willing and able to serve his country.

My dad – Giacomo Antonio Aiello – was also a first generation American, born in 1914 in California. His grandfather had arrived originally in 1886 from a small fishing village in Sicily. They came to fish the waters of Pacific Ocean, and here they established their own “Little Italy” on the San Francisco Bay. (Historical footnote: Joe Dimaggio’s family came from the same village of 300, situated just west of Palermo.)

In January, 1942 – just a month after Pearl Harbor – my father, his brother, and virtually all the young men of that community were drafted into military service to defend their country. Both my father and my uncle were sent to the European theater, and my dad worked for a time as a translator when the US army swept into the “soft underbelly” of Italy as the fascists retreated.

So… A man of German descent fighting Germans in WWI; then a man of Italian descent fighting Italians in WWII.

Where’s the irony? There is none. These men were Americans, and their loyalties were unquestioned and proven by their actions. Their parents and grandparents came to America and left the old world behind.

This is what has always made America exceptional: we are a people united by ideas, not by bloodlines. No other country in the world has had such a successful history of social fusion.

This is something we should be proud of – and brag about – on this Veterans Day.

The Clintons aren’t the only conspirators in this nation’s demise. The Bush’s are doing there best to destroy it too! It was after all, Bush the Elder, who coined the phrase “New World” order.

On this Veterans Day, as a Marine, Combat Veteran of the Vietnam War, and son of an Army Airborne Ranger who was dropped onto Normandy over sixty years ago, I don’t feel much like being honored by a country that does not appreciate it’s freedoms. Last Tuesday, the idiots/citizens of this country voted to surrender. Our enemies are overjoyed and comming soon!

It makes me sick, and I will pray every day that the cowards of this nation get exactly what they asked for!!!

I fear that only God can intervene at this point to save the U.S.