My country, one Nation

I was never really interested in our country's history in school because, I never thought I would ever use it and I thought it was boring until.........I had my children. When you have your children it is your responsibility to teach them everything about the world that you can, so the more I would think about how big the world was the more I read. I really had alot of fun learning, I went back to school and found that I loved history, I loved the words that were written when our country began.
I fell head over heels I love our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the words were beautiful and really well thought out. How could I not want to share and explain what they meant to my kids let alone to our country. The freedoms that we have, the love and respect our government has for us, have you read it lately? History has even more meaning after I learned that my own Great 9 times grand father Abraham Shaw came to America on the Mayflower (he signed the Mayflower Compact), then settled in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1635, Abraham was an Incorporator of Dedham and signed the town covenant, known as the "Dedham covenant". The Dedham Covenant was a very important inspiration to the writing of the Declaration of Independence. During the first year of the Dedham settlement, Abraham proposed the erection of a water mill for the purpose of grinding corn and the town granted him about 70 acres of land and granted permission to build a corn mill unfortunately he died in 1638 before he could finish the mill.
The pride that my Family feels has been put to the test as of late, why you ask? Because of all the lies that have been told by our Government! These leaders have let down my Kids, let alone all of us. We trust them to help make our country better not worse! Aren't we suppose to keep them accountable, they are our pubic servants, we put them in office. Our local public servants steal money from us tax payers, they raise our taxes and tell us we have to work harder because they have to cut more jobs just so they can make their budget. How come I can balance my budget but thy can't! Really.....are you serious? I try not to watch T.V. news anymore because it just makes me really mad, you know madder than a wet hen?
Abraham Shaw had to earn his rights as a freeman by working to establish the Massachusetts colony. In 1632 the residents of Watertown protested against being compelled to pay a tax for the erection of a stockade fort at Cambridge; this was the first protest in America against taxation without representation and led to the establishment of representative government in the colony. I have a whole new understanding of the history of our nation. It's no longer just something I read in a book, now it's a part of my heart because America runs in my veins! God bless my America and yours!
Surf you later
Lili

Under God?

In God we trust, I pledge elegance to the Flag of United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, notice a pattern here, God! Our country has forgotten one of the most important things that made this country great. We all know that other country's want to be us because, we were free, loved, protected, and all part of the greatest country ever made.
Let me take you back for a moment in time when some good men had a good idea, no a great one. They thought and worked hard for some time and to our good fortune they were God fearing men and had the faith that under God we could be something different!
Now we are here and in trouble, our nation is divided in so many fractures that not even surgical pins could help, we have immigration problems, hate is still ramped in our cities and then there is political correctness, oh for heavens sake, are you kidding me. How about we get off our butts and do something, not just vote for whatever they say we should, but ask the fat cats to stop the lies and ask We the People what we really think. We could do little things like, stop checking the box marked what Race are you...ah human, say we are all one race. Tell the Fat cats to stop taking all the money for their salary's and act like they are here to serve us not themselves.
How about this point (and fact), the scientists all use something that we don't really think about but B.C. and A.D., what does that mean you ask? Before Christ (B.C.) and After Death (A.D.), soooo what the heck is going on, even Darwin himself at the end of his life said "it was just a theory" he himself was a believer in a creator and in GOD! If we all go back to a simpler time when we believed in something, read our rights and demand them, then we just might be OK.
The big one is the freedom of speech, I just said my peace and that is my right! Now put that in your cigar and smoke it. Surf ya later, Lili