Friday Red shirt days

Red Shirt If the red shirt thing is new to you, read below how it went for a man... Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a folded flag, but did not put two and two together. After we boarded our flight, I turned to the sergeant, who'd been invited to sit in First Class (across from me), and inquired if he was heading home. No, he responded. Heading out I asked? No. I'm escorting a soldier home. Going to pick him up? No. He is with me right now. He was killed in Iraq , I'm taking him home to his family. The realization of what he had been asked to do hit me like a punch to the gut. It was an honor for him. He told me that, although he didn't know the soldier, he had delivered the news of his passing to the soldier's family and felt as if he knew them after many conversations in so few days. I turned back to him, extended my hand, and said, Thank you. Thank you for doing what you do so my family and I can do what we do. Upon landing in Chicago the pilot stopped short of the gate and made the following announcement over the intercom. "Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to note that we have had the honor of having Sergeant Steeley of the United States Marine Corps join us on this flight He is escorting a fallen comrade back home to his family. I ask that you please remain in your seats when we open the forward door to allow Sergeant Steeley to deplane and receive his fellow soldier. We will then turn off the seat belt sign." Without a sound, all went as requested. I noticed the sergeant saluting the casket as it was brought off the plane, and his action made me realize that I am proud to be an American. So here's a public Thank You to our military Men and Women for what you do so we can live the way we do. Red Fridays. Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing Red every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our troops used to be called the "silent majority." We are no longer silent, and are voicing our love for God, country and home in record breaking numbers. We are not organized, boisterous or overbearing. Many Americans, like you, me and all our friends, simply want to recognize that the vast major it of America supports our troops. Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops with dignity and respect starts this Friday -- and continues each and every Friday until the troops all come home, sending a deafening message that ... Every red-blooded American who supports our men and women a far, will wear something red. By word of mouth, press, TV -- let's make the United States on every Friday a sea of red much like a homecoming football game in the bleachers. If every one of us who loves this country will share this with acquaintances, coworkers, friends, and family, it will not be long before the USA is covered in RED and it will let our troops know the once "silent" majority is on their side more than ever, certainly more than the media lets on. The first thing a soldier says when asked "What can we do to make things better for you?" is. "We need your support and your prayers." Let's get the word out and lead with class and dignity, by example, and wear something red every Friday. IF YOU AGREE -- THEN SEND THIS ON. IF YOU COULDN'T CARE LESS -- THEN HIT THE DELETE BUTTON

Another soldier is coming home

Teacher's letter to Obama

TEACHER SLAMS OBAMA
>
> >
>
> > April 17,
> 2009
>
> > The White
> House
>
> > 1600
> Pennsylvania Avenue NW
>
> >
> Washington
> , DC 20500
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > Mr.
> Obama:
>
> > I have
> had it with you and your administration,
> sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas
> has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative
> of the United States of
> America
>
> >
> collectively or of me personally.
>
> >
>
> > You are
> so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim
> world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the
> President of the United States of America
> . You are responsible to the citizens of the
> United States .. You are not responsible to
> the
>
> > peoples
> of any other country on earth.
>
> >
>
> > I
> personally resent that you go around the world apologizing
> for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant
> and do not care about their status in the
> world. Sir, what do you think the First World War
> and the Second World War were all about if not the
> consideration of the peoples of Europe
> ?
>
> > Are you
> brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan
> was all about? Do you not understand or know the
> history of the 20th century?
>
> >
>
> > Where do
> you get off telling a Muslim country that
> the United States does not consider itself a
> Christian country? Have you not read the
> Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the
> United States ? This country was founded on
> Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this
> country, at least until you came along, come directly from
> this heritage. Do you not understand
> this?
>
> >
>
> > Your
> bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront
> to all Americans. Our President does not bow down
> to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi
> Arabia. You don't show Great Britain, our
> best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve
> yet you bow
>
> > down to
> the king of Saudi Arabia. How dare you,
> sir! How dare you!
>
> > You
> can't find the time to visit the graves of our greatest
> generation because you don't want to offend the Germans
> but make time to visit a mosque
> in Turkey. You offended our dead and
> every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than
> the people who saved the German people from
> themselves. What's the matter with
> you?
>
> >
>
> > I am
> convinced that you and the members of your administration
> have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle
> and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of
> you.
>
> >
>
> > You are
> so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the
> American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the
> real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank,
> Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and
> the Freddie Mac bonuses.
>
> > What do
> you intend to do about
> them? Anything? I seriously doubt
> it. What about the U.S. House members passing out
> $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members - on top of
> the $2.5 million in
>
> > automatic
> pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I
> understand the average House aide got a 17%
> bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs
> with my employer. You haven't said anything
> about that. Who authorized that? I
> surely didn't!
>
> >
> Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving
> $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period,
> that's $45 million more than the AIG
> bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie
> executives
have
> already been awarded $51 million - not a bad
> take. Who authorized that and why haven't you
> expressed your outrage at this group who are largely
> responsible for the economic mess we
> have
>
> > right
> now?
>
> >
>
> > I resent
> that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and
> not caring about what you idiots
> do.
>
> > We are
> watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly
> fed up with all of you.
>
> >
>
> > I also
> want you to know that I personally find just about
> everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my
> sensibilities.
>
> >
>
> > I promise
> you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a
> chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful
> country.
>
> >
>
> >
> Sincerely,
>
> >
>
> > Ms
> Kathleen Lyday
>
> > Fourth
> Grade Teacher

Shannon Kimbrell

Please visit http://www.confederateamericanpride.com/
It is a wonderful site.

It begans with me

Are you tired of our country spiraling out of control? Our you discouraged at our morals which are in utter decay? Why did we try and fix something that was not broke? In the 1940 s and 1950 s there was not the crime rate, dismay, and suicide that is plaguing our country today. We need to start standing up and saying that the fix for this situation begins with me. Slowly but surely together we can turn this tide but we need to do it before it is too late.

Is our schools "dumbing" down our children?

I had an interview today with a gentleman who was very upset about this subject. He said he attended a certain college where he actually outscored the incoming high school students on the placement tests. He graduated in 1972 from high school and he was very upset over the downturn of our schools. I told him that me and my husband are planning on homeschooling because of this fact and also because I will not permit my child to go somewhere that he is not allowed to take "Jesus". They say we offend them, but they are equally as offensive. Example: Miss California had every right to answer the question the way she did, just as Perez had every right to ask the question. We now live in a nation were there is no wrong or right, or let me clarify this: rather we live in a nation were morals and standards are now wrong.
Is it working? Do you really think that this new world order is working? Is there more respect for each other? NO! Instead there is more divisive issues every day. Our schools need to get back to what was working, no hidden agendas, no hidden anything, just good old fashioned math, reading, and english along with teaching the kids American history. Science is also good because we need people who do research and solves problems.
Lets stop making excuses and start working on solutions. It is about time we start thinking of our children instead of promoting our hidden agendas.

Simpler times

Where has the simpler times gone? Where everyone trusted you and you didn't have to jump through loops backwards to get a job? Credit check, background check, personality test, etc..... Our workers did better jobs in the 1940's and 1950's and you didn't have all of this to go through. Hello, if something isn't broke then don't fix it.

Richard Kirkland an amazing story

By MAC WYCKOFF

How many of you would try to save a friend knowing it might result in your own death?

Probably some of you would.

How many of you would try to save the life of an enemy knowing it might result in your own death?

Probably very few, if any, of you would take that risk.

Yet, that is exactly what Richard Rowland Kirkland did during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Both who he is and what he did are worth learning about.

Born in August 1843, he was the fifth son of Mary and John Kirkland. They lived in the rural community of Flat Rock in the Kershaw District, South Carolina.

A friend described him as a slender, but well-proportioned muscular man at 5â8", who weighed about 150 pounds. His photograph reveals a handsome young man with a mustache.

A good marksman, Kirkland excelled in riding a horse. His war letters reflect a religious young man of moderate education typical of the thousands of young men who went to war in 1861.

Despite his youth, Kirkland was eager to fight for his country. He enlisted before his older brothers and friends in Company E, 2nd South Carolina. After a year of service as a private, he switched to Company G to be with his friends and was soon promoted to sergeant.

By December of 1862, Kirkland had become a combat veteran, having seen action at 1st Manassas, Savage Station, Maryland Heights and Antietam. He had also witnessed the death of several of his best friends.

During the Battle of Fredericksburg on Dec. 13, 1862, Kirklandâs unit formed behind the Stone Wall at the base of Maryeâs Heights and helped slaughter the Union attackers. After a day of severe fighting, the scene shifted from severe fighting to tremendous suffering.

After dark on the 13th, doctors and soldiers began caring for the injured. The walking wounded made their way to the rear while those with disabling wounds remained on the field.

Daylight on the 14th revealed a ghastly scene to the Confederates behind the Stone Wall. About 8,000 Union soldiers had been shot in front of the wall and many of them remained where they had fallen. As hours went by without food, water or medical treatment, their suffering increased.

Nearby soldiers from both sides listened to the painful cries and pleas for help. While the suffering emotionally moved many, none dared face almost certain death to provide help.

At some point in the day, Kirkland could no longer bear listening to the pleas, so he walked over to the home of Martha Stevens. He went upstairs and told General Joseph Kershaw, his brigade commander, that he would like to try and help the wounded Union soldiers.

The surprised general at first refused the request, but he later relented.

Kirkland gathered all the canteens he could carry and filled them at the near by water well. Then, at extreme risk to himself, he ventured out to help the Federal soldiers. He carried water and warm clothing to the suffering Federal soldiers.

Kershaw anxiously watched Kirkland for 1 ¸ hours on his ãerrand of mercy, Christ-like mercy.ä

Kirkland went on to fight at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. On Sept. 20, 1863, during the Battle of Chickamauga, Kirkland and two buddies got out in front as they charged up Snodgrass Hill.

Realizing their predicament, they turned to rejoin their unit. Kirkland lingered for a fatal moment to fire one more shot and was mortally wounded. His final words were, "Tell my pa, I died right."

His body was returned home for burial. Years later, a friend visited his grave and described the location as "one of the most sequestered, unfrequented, and inaccessible spots I ever saw."

In 1909, his remains were moved to Quaker Cemetery in Camden just a few paces from the grave of Gen. Kershaw.

In 1965, the magnificent statue sculpted by the famous artist Felix DeWeldon was unveiled in front of the Stone Wall in Fredericksburg where he had performed his humanitarian acts.

At a time we sorely need heroes, this young Southern boy set an admirable example of concern for his fellow human beings and extreme courage.

Please help! Mom and aunt's van transmission has gone out. They do not have the money to repair their transmission and aunt has to be at the cancer clinic Tuesday April 21, 2009. The van is their only source of transportation and without it mom has no way to work and she is supporting aunt during this critical time on just $400 a month! Please, this is an urgent need so that aunt can get the medical attention she needs! Any donation even a dollar counts. Our goal is to raise $2000 in order to either repair their transmission or purchase another car.

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Website for aunt

I have a website and blogger for aunt under the name quartersfromheaven.com. Please visit these sites in honor of her and dedicated to colon cancer victims.

The Declaration Of Independence Has Been Repealed

The Declaration Of Independence Has Been Repealed
> Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
> Monday, April 06, 2009
>
> On April 2, 2009, the work of July 4, 1776 was nullified at the meeting of the G-20 in London. The joint communiqué essentially announces a global economic union with uniform regulations and bylaws for all nations, including the United States. Henceforth, our SEC, Commodities Trading Commission, Federal Reserve Board and other regulators will have to march to the beat of drums pounded by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a body of central bankers from each of the G-20 states and the European Union.
>
> The mandate conferred on the FSB is remarkable for its scope and open-endedness. It is to set a "framework of internationally agreed high standards that a global financial system requires." These standards are to include the extension of "regulation and oversight to all systemically important financial institutions, instruments, and markets...[includin

g] systemically important hedge funds."
>
> Note the key word: "all." If the FSB, in its international wisdom, considers an institution or company "systemically important", it may regulate and over see it. This provision extends and internationalizes the proposals of the Obama Administration to regulate all firms, in whatever sector of the economy that it deems to be "too big to fail."
>
> The FSB is also charged with "implementing...tough new principles on pay and compensation and to support sustainable compensation schemes and the corporate social responsibility of all firms."
>
> That means that the FSB will regulate how much executives are to be paid and will enforce its idea of corporate social responsibility at "all firms."
>
> The head of the Financial Stability Forum, the precursor to the new FSB, is Mario Draghi, Italy's central bank president. In a speech on February 21, 2009, he gave us clues to his thinking. He noted that "the progress we have made in revising the global regulatory framework...would have been unthinkable just months ago."
>
> He said that "every financial institution capable of creating systemic risk will be subject to supervision." He adds that "it is envisaged that, at international level, the governance of financial institutions, executive compensation, and the special duties of intermediaries to protect retail investors will be subject to explicit supervision."
>
> In remarks right before the London conference, Draghi said that while "I don't see the FSF [now the FSB] as a global regulator at the present time...it should be a standard setter that coordinates national agencies."
>
> This "coordination of national agencies" and the "setting" of "standards" is an explicit statement of the mandate the FSB will have over our national regulatory agencies.
>
> Obama, perhaps feeling guilty for the US role in triggering the international crisis, has, indeed, given away the store. Now we may no longer look to presidential appointees, confirmed by the Senate, to make policy for our economy. These decisions will be made internationally.
>
> And Europe will dominate them. The FSF and, presumably, the FSB, is now composed of the central bankers of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States plus representatives of the World Bank, the European Union, the IMF, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
>
> Europe, in other words, has six of the twelve national members. The G-20 will enlarge the FSB to include all its member nations, but the pro-European bias will be clear. The United States, with a GDP three times that of the next largest G-20 member (Japan), will have one vote. So will Italy.
>
> The Europeans have been trying to get their hands on our financial system for decades. It is essential to them that they rein in American free enterprise so that their socialist heaven will not be polluted by vices such as the profit motive. Now, with President Obama's approval, they have done it.
>
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The White House on Faith

Senator Obama also laid down principles for how to discuss faith in a pluralistic society, including the need for religious people to translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values during public debate. In December 2006, President Obama discussed the importance of faith in the global battle against AIDS.

Hmm........Sounds more like the New World Order every day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1byTDgu7iA

Let's have a Tea Party!!!!

Racist Obama Site

http://www.theobamaforum.com/showthread.php?t=5553

Talk about racism! You better look this up, this is really scary and we need to do something about it now!

One World Currency?

Please follow this link and read the story. The book of Revelations is coming true more every day! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802521198942455.html

High energy bills for SC residents

http://www.gopetition.com/online/26427.html

I have created a petition to investigate why South Carolina's residents power bills have nearly doubled in the last year. Please click on this link to sign the petition.

Rossvally movie!

This is going to be a great movie! I cannot wait for it to come out! I just pre-ordered the movie last week. This is a true and very touching story. The story can be found in the book by a Rev. Shaw. It is the story of a young drummer boy named Charlie Coulson in the Civil War. Go to Praise Expressions or RMJC for more information on the movie.

I am restarting my blog! I have another blog also!

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