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I’m grateful to the Ricochet member who–in a comment on a main feed thread about something else–drew my attention to this Public Service Announcement by a bunch of soi-disant celebrities,** just eight years ago. Thank you: https://youtu.be/e1zjNntlXPo I’m still not exactly sure what they’re advocating for. Oh, wait. Yes, I am sure. They're advocating for the… Continue reading The Purpose of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
210 years ago today, when the flag of the still relatively-young republic had only fifteen stars, on September 14, 1814, an American lawyer by the name of Francis Scott Key published a poem he'd written upon witnessing the bombardment of Baltimore's Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the War of 1812. The poem… Continue reading The Defense of Fort McHenry: For the World
Tradition has it that, on April 23 in AD 303, a young and promising Roman soldier in the army of the Emperor Diocletian was beheaded after gruesome torture, and died professing his Christian faith to the end. Very little is known of his life, but it’s believed he was born into a devout Christian family,… Continue reading A Bloody Cross–April 23, 2024, A Day for England
On April 4, 1818, the Congress of the United States adopted a new national flag which consisted of thirteen alternating red and white stripes (one for each original colony), and--at the flag's upper left--a field of blue with a star representing each state. (There twenty of them at the time. Now there are fifty.) The… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Old Glory!
A few of my favorites to celebrate the day. The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band. I have an indelible memory of their concert, many years ago now, just up the road in Washington, PA which the late Mr. Right and I attended together: https://youtu.be/a-7XWhyvIpE The Battle Hymn… Continue reading Happy 247th Birthday, United States of America!
It's Memorial Day weekend here in the USA. The approved Memorial Day for 2023 is Monday, May 29, although my mother-in-law never called the actual day anything but Decoration Day, and never commemorated it on any day other than May 30 in any given year. Unfortunately, in 1971, as part of a mad rush at… Continue reading Memorial Day, 2023
Tradition has it that, on April 23 in AD 303, a young and promising Roman soldier in the army of the Emperor Diocletian was beheaded after gruesome torture, and died professing his Christian faith to the end. Very little is known of his life, but it’s believed he was born into a devout Christian family,… Continue reading A Bloody Cross
A few of my favorites to celebrate the day. The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band. I have an indelible memory of their concert, many years ago now, just up the road in Washington, PA which Mr. Right and I attended together: https://youtu.be/a-7XWhyvIpE The Battle Hymn of the… Continue reading Happy Birthday, United States of America!
I’m proud of my country. Not in the Michelle Obama “first time” sense, but one which, for once, I’m comfortable “sharing” (as the abominable Markle might put it.) My Lord. So many flag wavers. You’d think the country had turned “American” all of a sudden. Loved it, from the Horse Guards, to the Trooping the… Continue reading A Very Un-British Feeling
Tradition has it that, on April 23 in AD 303, a young and promising Roman soldier in the army of the Emperor Diocletian was beheaded after gruesome torture, and died professing his Christian faith to the end. Very little is known of his life, but it’s believed he was born into a devout Christian family,… Continue reading A Bloody Cross