“Former Vice President Mike Pence said during the Family Leadership Summit on Friday that crumbling inner cities are not “his concern” as he argued for more aid to Ukraine.
Pence spoke with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson about a variety of issues, including Ukraine’s conflict with Russia. The former Vice President said that he is confident that if Russian leader Vladimir Putin takes over Ukraine, then Putin will advance toward the rest of Eastern Europe, which the United States will have to defend.
Pence said he wants to give the Ukrainian military what they need to repel Russia. He said that Ukraine’s potential membership with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will have to be decided after the conflict is over.
“Peace comes through strength, and the United States needs to continue to project strength,” Pence remarked.
In response, Carlson remarked, “I know you’re running for president. You are distressed the Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks. Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years. Drive around. There is not one city that has gotten better in the United States. And it’s visible.” (Courtesy Breitbart.com)
Wow.
I have always said that if you give a phony politician enough rope, he will hang himself.
Remember 2004 Democratic Presidential Primary Candidate Howard Dean? He was not exactly a frontrunner. However, you couldn’t tell him that. He got a little too excited at a Campaign Rally and became the laughingstock of the election.
When Pence first announced that he was going to run for president, I thought to myself that this guy will get 2 votes, his own, and his wife… and his wife might vote for someone else.
You know, I was truly shocked when Mike Pence first turned on President Donald J. Trump.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have been.
The things which drew a lot of average Americans to literally fall in love with Candidate and then President Donald J. Trump was the fact that he was “one of us”.
He was not a professional politician.
He knew how to laugh , nd he spoke to us, whether in one of his live appearances or on television, as if we were close friends who had known each other all of our lives.
He was authentic.
Unfortunately, with the future of our Constitutional Republic hanging in the balance, average Americans found out that his Vice-President, Mike Pence, was not.
Former Vice-President Mike Pence proved himself to be just another plain vanilla professional politician, more than willing to trade his spine for political expediency.
And, boys and girls, as we all know, actions have consequences.
Failure to act does, too.
In Pence’s case, his failure to act started our Sovereign Nation on a downward spiral, at home and abroad.
At that time, Pence’s actions really disillusioned me.
You see, Pence proclaims himself to be a Christian.
Well, that’s not for me to judge.
However, he turned his back on a man whom Dr. James Dobson described after sitting down with him before the 2016 Presidential Election as “a new Christian”…to side with individuals who want to legalize full-term abortions and who believe in 36 genders.
And now, under honest probing questioning by Tucker Carlson , he has revealed himself to care more about a country overseas, which has already been set too much of hard-working American taxpayers’ money, than America’s crumbling infrastructure.
One of the “Fruits (or Gifts) of the Holy Spirit” described in the Bible is that of “discernment”.
I think that Brother Pence needs to exchange his “gift of discernment” for one that actually works.
“President Joe Biden called in on King Charles III at Windsor Castle on Monday on his way to this week’s NATO summit, being treated to tea and talk on climate change.
The U.S. leader was met with a parade and band at Windsor Castle on Monday afternoon, the 950-year-old fortress which is a British Royal residence and the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world. The Band of the Welsh Guards played the Star Spangled Banner and Biden inspected the troops with King Charles III.
Biden appeared transfixed for a moment when he received a traditional sword salute presenting of arms from an officer of the Guards at the end of one of the lines of soldiers in the guard of honour, leaving Britain’s King Charles having to work to regain the President’s attention. Appearing confused, or even consciously ignoring Charles III, Biden seemed to be trying to engage the guardsman in conversation.
After a moment’s gesticulation and spoken remarks, the King appeared able to get the President moving in the right direction once again. In a break of protocol, after being shepherded away, President Biden threw his arm around King Charles’ back.” (Courtesy Breitbart.com)
“Nothing to see here.”
Yeah, right.
While Americans wait to see if the Biden White House will actually admit that the bag of cocaine found there last week belonged to hopelessly-addicted Hunter Biden, we have once again been embarrassed by Hunter’s Dementia-riddled father, the installed President of the United States of America.
It is obvious to both our allies and our enemies alike that Biden’s mental acuity is eroding rapidly.
A lot of fun has been had at Biden’s expense over the fact that he is losing his war with dementia.
However, in terms of the safety of our country’s citizens and our nation’s continued existence, it is definitely not a laughing matter.
Any American who paid attention during the campaign soon figured out that Biden has some serious mental and physical health issues.
It was one thing to over look his inappropriate behavior during the Obama Presidency when he was just the Vice-President and Obama, Susan Rice, and Valerie Jarret were running the show, anyway.
Guess what?
They are still running the show!
I am certain that it has been difficult for them to cover for Biden’s compromised state.
They knew that he was a doddering old fool even before the Democratic Primaries.
However, when the time came for Biden to start appearing during the Democrat Primaries and then, the Presidential Campaign itself, it was quite obvious that “Lunch Bucket Joe” was shy a potato chip or two.
Now, the President of the United States of America reminds average Americans of their relatives who live in nursing homes whom they have not seen in a while because they cannot bear to witness them deteriorating like Biden is.
HIs wife, “Dr.” Jill Biden and the rest of his Handlers can try as hard as they can to hide his condition.
Their minions in the Main Stream Media and the New Bolsheviks can continue to dutifully cover for them on Social Media
But, unfortunately for Liberals, Americans are aware that Joe is declining rapidly, both physically as well as mentally.
Even clueless Vice-President Kamala Harris and the Democrat Elites know that Joe’s time in the Oval Office is limited.
She knows that Biden is as incapable of doing his job as she is hers, as demonstrated to the world during the horrible loss of American and Afghani lives in Afghanistan brought about by his pulling our troops out and closing up Bagram before he got the American Civilians and our allies out and all of his gaffes and doddering behavior since then.
Joe Biden is a perfect example of the “Peter Principle”, a book published decades ago, which posited the theory that people rise in their professional endeavors to their level of incompetence.
The problem with having the Dummy From Delaware sitting in the Oval Office is that he is not paying the price for his incompetence.
Also, as my friend @dbongino just reminded me, pretty much everyone who enters the West Wing has to empty their pockets, and the Secret Service would immediately notice and stop anyone walking in with even a small bag of white powder. https://t.co/XEWaIjBPgW
The above explanation by Former Secret Service Agent and nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dan Bongino is the most spot on accurate explanation of how cocaine was brought into the White House.
With all of the security measures that have been put in place all over the residential and “business” areas of the complex, it is extremely unlikely that anyone besides those Biden family members escorted by Secret Service Agents left it there.
That is why leaked reports have changed the location of the cocaine twice from the original location in the library, as reported by the HazMat Team who found it.
This is another cover-up…plain and simple.
Just as the odds makers in Las Vegas have pointed out, there is one suspect who is the odd-on favorite to be the one who left a bag of cocaine lying around the White House.
Hunter Biden has a lengthy history of drug addiction, which he detailed in his 2021 autobiography, describing several cycles of sobriety followed by relapse.
In February 2014, Hunter was discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine — less than a year after he was commissioned as an ensign in the public affairs office.
There are videos of Hunter doing crack while driving and pictures of him doing crack with hookers found on his laptop.
During the Capitol 4th of July Fireworks, which the Bidens were watching from the White House balcony, Hunter looked sweaty and nervous.
Was he doing something illegal involving his nose on the White House balcony?
“Multiple liberal outlets have trashed the new film “Sound of Freedom” as “QAnon-adjacent” and “fit for QAnon” in recent days, descriptions that relegate the film about human trafficking to fodder for conspiracy theorists.
Both U.K. publication The Guardian and website Jezebel claimed that the film starring Jim Caviezel, which was based on the true story of a U.S. Homeland Security agent rescuing two young children from human traffickers in South America, was attached to QAnon, a right-wing community that has been accused of buying into fringe conspiracy theories.
Although the film, produced by Angel Studios and released over the July 4 holiday, never engages in such conspiracy theories while exposing the underbelly of the real underground sex slave trade, both outlets linked the film to fringe right-wing extremists in an attempt to discredit it and its box-office success.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)
Of course they did.
The movie which they are attacking is beating the socks off the high-budget “Woke” “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”.
The story behind this movie is that they made it 8 years ago in Columbia, and 20th Century Fox had the movie to be released, but Disney bought them out and shelved the movie (wonder why). Years later, Angel Studios buys the rights, and the director went on social media to promote the film after he could not get it in any theaters or even Netflix. Finally, people got behind it, and now, average Americans are flocking to theaters to see it, and Liberals are attacking it.
Now, why would Liberals attack a movie illuminating the horrific nature of the International Child Sex Trade Business?
Why did Disney never release the movie to theaters?
Here is where I make the Far Left Democrats mad at me…again.
Ask yourselves, gentle readers,
What is one of the major Hot Button Issues with Far Left Democrats, both regarding our Education System and “popular culture”?
The “right” to sexually educate children from kindergarten age on up including introducing gender-fluid, “binary” sexuality, and other sexually deviant behavior.
This grossly inappropriate evil sickness that is desperately trying to gain acceptance in American Society is trying to present itself as being helpful, harmless, and intellectually “Woke”.
In reality, it is no less evil than the sex slave trade dealt with in “Sound of Freedom.”
That is why Liberals are throwing a Hissy Fit.
The whole purpose of “Wokeness” is to make Traditional Faith and Values appear bigoted and close-minded and to make sexually deviant behavior “normal” and culturally acceptable.
The overwhelming success of “Sound of Freedom” is proof that average Americans aren’t buying what the “Woke” Far Left Democrats are selling.
To the Woke Far Left Democrats trying to tell American parents and grandparents that our children are “everybody’s”…
“The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.” – Abraham Lincoln
If you have been paying attention to what has been happening in our Sovereign Nation since the installation of “President” Joe Biden, you have witnessed clueless arrogant Far Left Local and National Democrat Politicians, celebrities and professional athletes acting like a bunch of spoiled ungrateful, miserable wannabe Marxists.
These “Ungrateful Miserables” if you will, aided by the Biden-Harris Administration, continue to attempt to erase our nation’s history through their attempts to introduce a fictional version of our nation’s history into the curriculum of public school systems and universities, in order to further divide our nation through Cultural Marxism.
Those who are leading this movement to “radically change” this “Shining City Upon a Hill” into a Third World Marxist country echo the sentiments of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, and the rest of the Far Left self-proclaimed geniuses who cost the Democratic Party the Presidency in 2016 and who cheated their way into the White House in 2020.
These “Ungrateful Miserables” believe that anybody who works hard for a living and believes in God and Country is a Jingoistic imbecile.
According to the dictionary, Jingoism is an extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.
In other words, being guilty of believing that America is the greatest country on the face of God’s Green Earth and believing in American Exceptionalism.
For the past 2 decades at least, children and young adults, attending American Institutes of Learning, from kindergarten to college campuses, have been taught by Liberal teachers and professors that America is “just another country” and to be a patriot is to somehow be close-minded, ignorant, and bigoted, not necessarily in that order.
Evidently, the overeducated imbeciles who planned this Marxist uprising that we have witnessed over the last several years have never understood in their ungrateful little lives what has made and continues to make our country exceptional.
Where the exceptionalism of America lies…is not in the Halls of Power…nor in the Halls of Academia. But, rather in the courage and spirit of the average American. A courage and spirit, which our history proves, has driven American citizens to build a nation, which is indeed exceptional among all others.
The secret of this country’s exceptionalism is the “Average Joe”, the 9 to 5′er, working himself into the grave to try to provide for his family.
It was this same “Average Joe”, who fired the shot heard around the world and began the War for American Independence, who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in World War II, who waded through rice paddies in Vietnam, and who swallowed sand in Desert Storm and Desert Shield. The same “Average Joe” who, as a New York City Policeman or Fireman, ran up the stairs of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01 instead of running down them. The same “Average Joe”, who simply wants things to be easier in this life for his children and grandchildren, than he had it.
It is this same “Average Joe”, who takes family and friends in, when they are in the midst of a life-altering tragedy. The same “Average Joe”, who volunteers on a soup line or at a Senior Citizens Home, or who begins a successful business in his basement.
And, it is this same “Average Joe” who, being fed up with the Democratic Party’s Far Left Crusade against anything and everything traditionally American, went to the voting booth and elected Donald J. Trump, a Citizen Statesman, as our 45th President.
And that, boys and girls, is why, on this 4th of July, almost 7 years after average Americans watched with a sense of prideful accomplishment as Donald J. Trump took the Oath of Office, Modern American Liberals are still showing the world their posteriors while continuing to throw the longest mass temper tantrum in recorded history, even though they “won” the 2020 Presidential Election.
Their ego-driven political ideology does not permit them to consider the reality that theirs is still the minority political ideology in this nation, a Far Left Fascist political ideology which none but a small minority on the Far Left of the Political Spectrum embrace.
While the East and “Left” Coast are indeed heavily-populated in their metropolitan areas with Liberals (some of them even Legal Citizens), the reality of what actually happened on November 8th, 2016 can been plainly seen on any Electoral Map.
As George Orwell said,
“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
So, to summarize, by embracing Marxism, by labeling Patriotism as “Jingoism”, and by ridiculing and accusing those of us who love our country and hold fast to Traditional American Values as being “racists”, the Democratic Party are well into the process of ruining this country, and making average Americans so mad that they are fighting back by showing up to school board meetings and speaking out against the Democrat-driven Cultural Marxism which they are attempting to brainwash our children with.
The anti-American arrogance of the “Ungrateful Miserables” comprising the Democratic Party has already cost them the House of Representatives. The way things are progressing, it will not only cost them the Presidency…it will also cost them the Senate, as well.
If I was a Modern American Liberal with any sort of self-awareness, I would be ashamed of disrespecting both my flag and my country.
Unfortunately, the Far Left “Democratic Socialists” who have taken over the once mainstream Democratic Party and who guide poor old, demented Joe Biden are not self-aware.
It is this lack of self-awareness that is allowing average Americans to witness the beginning of the implosion and political extinction of the Democratic Party right before our very eyes.
In the opinion of this 64-year-old, sitting in the Northwest corner of the Magnolia State in America’s Heartland, Modern American Liberals, and their ideological leaders, who trod the Halls of Power with impunity, underestimate the American Spirit, just as King George and the British Aristocracy did, so many years ago.
As our enemies, both foreign and domestic, have discovered since the birth of our nation, Americans will fight for our freedom.
We showed this fact to the world on November 8th, 2016.
And now, almost 7 years later, thanks to the arrogant overreach of the Far Left Ideologues who are controlling Joe Biden, his Administration and the Democrat Politicians on Capitol Hill, the citizens of our Sovereign Nation are beginning to once again rise like a phoenix from its ashes and are preparing to SAVE AMERICA!
May God bless you and your family on this 4th of July, the Year of Our Lord, 2023, and may God Bless America.
Why would over 50,000 people line up for 5 hours in the hot South Carolina sun to hear an “indicted” former President of the United States of America speak?
Because, like it or not, he will be the Republican Candidate running to be the 47th President of our Sovereign Nation.
No other Republican Presidential Candidate draws crowds like this.
Why is this man still drawing crowds like this?
After all, he has been “indicted”.
The reason is very simple:
Unlike Senator “Miss” Lindsey Graham, who was booed off the rally stage by his constituency, Trump tries his darnedest to keep his promises.
Trump is not a professional politician who has spent decades in the bubble known as Capitol Hill.
That is why his supporters still support him.
That is why they booed Graham.
Graham is a Washington Insider and a protégé of the late Senator John McCain.
Graham says that he supports Trump. The problem with that is that his words and actions show that he supports the Washington Status Quo more.
But. I digress…
The reason that Trump’s popularity continues to grow, allowing him to outdistance Gov. Ron DeSantis by 30-50 points in the Republican Primary Polls, is the fact that he has shown himself to be a man who cares more about reaching out to the American people than “reaching across the aisle “.
That’s why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hates him so much.
Trump does not “play the game” and “kiss his ring.”
The Democrat Elite thought that they would bury Trump by using political indictments to get him out of the picture.
This week will go down in American History as the week in which the Supreme Court stood up for the Traditional American Faith and Values our Founding Fathers held so dear.
In 3 landmark decisions, the majority ruled that Americans cannot be forced to do something which is against their faith, that Americans should be awarded College Scholarships on the basis of merit and not the color of their skin, and that the President of the United States of America cannot bypass our System of Checks and Balances in order to pay off College Loans with $430 billion of American Taxpayers’ money in order to buy votes.
Our Founding Fathers are up in Heaven smiling about what has happened this week.
So are the majority of average Americans.
The Far Left Democrats, along with their puppet Joe Biden, are positively apoplectic.
Without being able to tell us that our Christian Faith is secondary to what the Democrat-led government and special interest groups decree as being “normal,” and therefore, its acceptance is mandatory, they are unable to force us to recognize their authority instead of God’s.
In order for the Democrat Elite to succeed in “radically changing” America from a Constitutional Republic to a mob-ruled Marxist fascist totalitarian falsely-labeled “Democracy,” they need useful idiots willing to give away their individual freedom and to accept immorality and sexual perversion as normal behavior.
Without being able to buy votes through Affirmative Action and paying off College Loans, the Democrats know that they will lose voters.
After all, what do they have to offer besides an installed dementia-riddled President and a failed political ideology that has only led to despair and poverty in any country that has foolishly installed it as their form of government?
Thank God for our Founding Fathers who established us as a Constitutional Republic with 3 co-equal branches of government!
Otherwise, the Far Left Democratic Party, led by the Democrat Elite, would destroy our country as we know it.
“Former President Donald Trump celebrated the one-year anniversary of the overruling of Roe v. Wade, hailing the Faith and Freedom Coalition standing for “God, family, and country.”
“As we gather today, our beloved nation is teetering on the edge of tyranny,” Trump told the “Road to Majority 2023” event Saturday night in Washington, D.C., which aired live on Newsmax.
“I believe that, and you believe that, our enemies are waging war on faith and freedom on science and religion, on history and tradition, on law and democracy, on God Almighty himself. They are waging war.
“That’s not a war they’re gonna win.”
Trump denounced Democrats, who he said “they lie, they cheat, and they steal.”
“The radicals are setting fire to our Constitution, abolishing free speech, attacking religious belief, erasing our borders, corrupting our elections – and we have corrupt elections – and trying to impose their blasphemous creed and woke communism on every American man, woman, and child,” Trump continued. “And that’s what they’re doing, and they’re trying so hard. We’ve never had a situation like is going on right now in our country, but the people in this room will never let them do it. They’ll never let them get away with it.”
Trump denounced the election interference campaign and the weaponization of the Biden administration’s Justice Department against his chief political opponent.
“The menacing specter of left-wing repression has been growing steadily for years and years,” Trump continued. “It’s been growing and we were stopping it very powerfully for years, and now it’s picked up at a level that nobody’s ever seen before.
“First they slandered Americans of faith as haters and bigots. Then they corrupted the media. They installed radical left judges to subvert our Constitution. They used the IRS to target conservatives, they spied on our campaign, and specifically, they spied on my campaign and we caught him. Terrible.” (Courtesy Newsmax.com)
Last night, Former President Trump told a gathering of Americans what they already knew.
Before you stop reading this post because you believe that I am turning anti-Trump…hold on.
I believe that the overwhelming majority of Americans already know what is happening to our Constitutional Republic… and agree with him.
Unless you live in one of the “wretched hives of villainy” known as the Beltway, New York City, or the Left Coast, as average Americans you have watched in horror as the same failed fascist Marist political ideology which our parents and grandparents fought against is being openly embraced and championed by “useful idiots”.
And, the same perversion and child “sacrifice” that we read about in the Old Testament in Sunday School and learned about in World History class, which brought down Empires, is being lauded by Far Left Democrats as “rights” protected in “our Democracy”.
Where are the Vichy Republicans when all this is going on?
The Vichy Republicans who were sent to represent us on Capitol Hill seem more intent on flapping their gums in front of television cameras than actually doing something about it.
Meanwhile, the Far Left Democrat Elite, the puppet masters of Joe Biden, have weaponized the DOJ, resulting in political indictments of Former President Trump.
So, Trump is right.
Average Americans have been speaking out about this attack on our Sovereign Nation from within.
However, the Main Stream Media and the Tyrannical Minority in power choose to ignore and insult them.
As I see it, we have to use the two weapons available to all of us in order to win this war against those who want to “radically change” America.
First and foremost, we must all become Prayer Warriors, praying for our country and for principaled political leaders possessing faith and backbones to step up and fight against the evil corruption consuming our Sovereign Nation.
Second, we must go to the polls and vote, removing those who refuse to fight for average Americans.
“Former Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was booed at a conference in Washington, D.C., after criticizing the leadership of former President Donald Trump.
“I’m running because he’s let us down,” Christie said to a crowd at the Faith & Freedom Coalition event on Friday, referencing Trump. “He has let us down because he’s unwilling to take responsibility for any of the mistakes that were made and any of the faults that he has and any of the things he’s done, and that is not leadership everybody. That is a failure of leadership.”
At that point, several people in the largely pro-Trump crowd booed the former New Jersey governor.
“You can boo all you want,” the Republican presidential candidate responded. “But here’s the thing. Our faith teaches us that people have to take responsibility for what they do. People have to stand up and take accountability for what they do.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)
How did Former President Trump fail you, Chris Christie?
Are you still upset that he was not a Status Quo Republican who sucked up to the Democrat Elite while they tried to impeach him at every turn?
Or, are you still upset that he made professional politicians like yourself look grossly incompetent and spineless?
Why are you upset and attacking Former President Donald J. Trump?
After you left office, you made millions of dollars through consulting and advocating causes behind the scenes, not to mention being a contributor to the twenty-four hour news cycle any time you had a chance to get your big fat face in front of a camera.
You are dadgum skippy those Evangelicals had the right to boo you. They recognized a turncoat RINO when they saw one.
As shown by all the popularity polls, average Americans still support Trump.
Waitaminute…
I just realized why you are so upset at Trump.
As long as Trump remains in the race, you don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming the Republican Nominee.
You are strictly a Regional Candidate.
Regardless of what Democrats and Vichy Republicans like you believe, Capitol Hill and the Northeast do not rule over average Americans in the Heartland.
Oh, and concerning your “our faith” statement.
Yes, Our Lord and Savior preached that there are consequences for actions, but he also preached forgiveness of sins after repentance.
Former Governor Christie, during your “sermon” to those Evangelicals, you left out a very important scripture from the recounting of Jesus and the woman at the well:
“Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone…” – John 8:7
D-Day, also called the Battle of Normandy, was fought on June 6, 1944, between the Allied nations and German forces occupying Western Europe. To this day, over 79 years later, it still remains the largest seaborne invasion in history. Almost three million troops crossed the English Channel from England to Normandy to be used as human cannon fodder in an invasion of occupied France.
Among the young men who stepped off those boats, in a hail of gunfire, was a fellow named Edward, whom everyone called Ned, from the small town of Helena, Arkansas. Already in his young life, Ned had been forced to drop out of school in the sixth grade, in order to work at the local movie theatre to help support his mother, brother, and sister, faced with the ravages of the Great Depression.
He later went on to help build the US Highway 49 Helena Bridge across the Mississippi River.
He was a gentle man who loved to laugh and sing, having recorded several 78 rpm records in the do-it-yourself booths of the day. And now, he found himself, a Master Sergeant in an Army Engineering Unit, stepping off a boat into the unknown, watching his comrades being mercilessly gunned down around him.
Ned, along with the rest of his unit who survived the initial assault, would go on to assist in the cleaning out of the Concentration Camps, bearing witness to man’s inhumanity to man.
The horrors he saw had a profound effect on Ned. One which he would keep to himself for the remainder of his life. While his children knew that he served with an Engineering Unit in World War II, they did not know the full extent of his service, until they found his medal, honoring his participation in the Invasion of Normandy, going through his belongings, after he passed away on December 29, 1997.
He was my Daddy.
Today, all across the world, Fathers will be honored by their children, natural, adopted, foster, and those whom they took in as one of their own.
Did you ever wonder how this Global Remembrance got started?
There are two stories which are attributed as being the origin of Father’s Day.
According to the first tale, it all began in 1910, when Sonora Smart-Dodd of Spokane, Washington, tried to figure out a way in which to honor her dad, a remarkable man, who had single-handedly raised six children. Sonora, naturally, loved her dad with all her heart, and wanted everyone to recognize him for what he had done for her entire family. She made the decision to declare day of tribute, a Father’s Day, if you will, on her father’s birthday – June 19.
The next year, Sonora contacted the local churches in an attempt to get them to throw their support behind the celebration, but they simply laughed her off. After that setback, it took a while before Sonora’s proposal once again started gaining attention.
A bill in support of a national remembrance of Father’s Day was introduced in 1913. The bill was approved by US President Woodrow Wilson three years later. The bill received further support from President Calvin Coolidge in 1924.
This brought about the formation of a National Father’s Day Committee in New York within the next two years. However, our Federal Government, not exactly being strong in the pursuit alacrity, took another 30 years before a Joint Resolution of Congress officially recognized Father’s Day. Then, implementation of the bill was postponed another 16 years until President Richard Nixon declared third Sunday of June as Father’s Day in 1972.
The second story of the origin of Father’s Day involves Dr. Robert Webb of West Virginia. According to this version, the first Father’s Day service was conducted by Webb at the Central Church of Fairmont in 1908.
Around my house, we always thought that Hallmark and Walmart invented it.
Like you other fathers out there, I am asked every year what I want for my Father’s Day Gift.
The one present I want…I can’t have.
I wish that I had one more day with my Daddy.
My Daddy was the most important man in my life and remains so to this day.
He taught me how to love others through his actions every day of his life. He was a wonderful Christian man, who led me to Christ.
He was also the bravest man I have ever known, landing at Normandy Beach on D-Day.
My Daddy worked hard all of his life. He worked for Sears for 20 years. He taught me what hard work was and yet he always had time for me.
I wish that I had one more day to walk through Court Square Park in Memphis, Tennessee feeding the pigeons and the squirrels with my Daddy.
I wish that I had another opportunity to sit on the living room floor at Christmas and play Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots with him.
I wish that I had another chance to stand over to the side on Thanksgiving Afternoon and watch him, as he played Penny-ante Poker, “cutting up” with my mother and my aunts and uncles.
I wish that I could hear him singing “The Old Rugged Cross” in the kitchen again, with his beautiful tenor voice.
I wish that I could watch him again, sitting at the breakfast table simultaneously looking through his old Cokesbury Hymnbook and his Book on Hymnology, researching those great old hymns and taking notes, so that he could tell his 150 member Sunday School Class about the hymn which he was going to lead them in singing that Sunday Morning.
I wish that I could watch my Daddy playing with my baby daughter again, sticking out the lower plate of his dentures, as she tried to grab it.
I wish that I could see them again out in the driveway, sitting in his 1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic with her in the driver’s seat as they waited for the school bus to pick her up for pre-school.
I wish that I could spend another Christmas Morning with him to watch the fun as he gave my sister her yearly “gag gift”, just to watch her jump and squeal as the “snake” or “mouse” jumped out of the box.
I wish that I could sit and watch Saturday Morning Memphis Wrestling and then another Johnny Weissmuller “Tarzan” movie with him on a Saturday afternoon…or maybe a Three Stooges Short, just to hear him laugh.
It’s funny, y’know.
I look in the mirror at 64 years old… and I see him.
I look back over the years at the things that I did with the children that God brought into my life to care for and then I see the things that I’m doing now with my 10 year-old grandson, and I see my Daddy in myself.
Nowadays in America, it is harder than ever to be a Dad. Any male who is not impotent can sire a child…as is being proven daily across our country.
However, it takes a man to be a Daddy, a Papa, a Pop, a Pops, somebody’s Old Man, or simply, a Father.
I’ve had the privilege of having a hand in raising three step-sons, one nephew, and one very special daughter. I would not give back one moment of those experiences for anything that this world can offer.
I was not a perfect role model. I made mistakes…a lot of them. But, looking back, I know, in my heart, that I’ve made a difference in their lives. And, I thank the One Who Made Me for that opportunity.
I pray that I was able to pass along at least some of my Daddy’s Legacy of Christian Love to those I have had a hand in raising.
Dads…it costs nothing to pay attention….and give love.
Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. – Proverbs 22:6
Daddy, I wish you were here so I could tell you how much I love you and miss you.
I hope you’re proud of me.
Every good thing that I am, came from the life lessons which I learned from you and the Love and Amazing Grace of my Heavenly Father.
Today, while you’re up in Heaven, I hope you hug Mother and tell her,
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