The Crisis

The Crisis

December 23, 1776 THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is...

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Why Are You Marching Son

Why Are You Marching Son

By:  John Wayne Why are you marching son?  I’d really like to know.  Because of Valley Forge, or perhaps the Alamo? Or one if by land, two if by sea?  A trumpet’s call, the will to be free? What of a man who stood straight and tall, who wept silent tears when he saw...

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Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so...

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