A Letter to Youth by Youth: Freedom Lives or Dies with Us By Alise Uhl
My fellow young Americans, 85 years ago on December 7, 1941, our country was attacked on a lazy, peaceful day at Pearl Harbor. It dealt a devastating blow. One that could have knocked America to her knees. It did the opposite.
We took to the skies.
A select few of our young pilots were called upon to execute a top-secret counterattack on Japan. Doolittle’s Raid was practically a suicide mission.
Our country didn’t know it at the time, but they turned their eyes on those young men for justice.
And those pilots and bombardiers didn’t run. They didn’t hide. They didn’t buckle when they had already seen so much.
No.
They stepped forward.
They chose to give up the rest of their lives, give up marrying their sweethearts, and give up meeting their children so that American children could live, breathe, marry, and die in freedom.
Just a few generations later, those children are you and me.
If our nation now turned its eyes on us, could they trust us?
Loving our country and her people means more than basking in the freedom to say whatever we want. More than pushing for our generation to get its way because we are going to be the next ones to lead. More than wanting only “the fun part of freedom.”
Everyone should have freedom of speech. Every man and woman was born with that right. But will what we currently shout taste bitter in the mouths of our offspring, or will it be the anthem they sing as they teach their kids what freedom is?
Do those who mentored us have the assurance that the next generation is not simply waiting their turn to take political office for personal interests? Do they know that we won’t forget, trample over, take advantage of, or reverse the good they have accomplished?
Are we ready?
World War II was our last just war. Nearly a century ago. Our army mobilized only after Congress declared war on an attacking nation. If another country assaulted ours today, and Congress declared war, and the people demanded justice, would they get it?
When we look back to just one of the wars that shaped America, we realize the nation put herself into the hands of boys who were forced to become men. She put herself into the hands of young women who became nurses, stood behind those men, and helped many of them through their dying breaths.
Do we know what it is like to walk through a war memorial and truly honor those men and women who paid the ultimate price for freedom? To look back and silently promise them that their story, their lives, their deaths will not be forgotten?
This is not just history. This is our heritage. And when our heritage becomes a part of us, it refuses to become a relic of the past.
Are we willing to give more than a mere moment of silence to the same cause that our fathers were willing to fight and die for? To give our sweat, our tears, our fight, and, if it comes to it, our blood?
I don’t just speak of foreign wars and affairs or a power rising against us from without.
There is an enemy within. It is the crushing wave of false ideology, projected as truth, penetrating the young minds of our kids. It is the stifling of the God-fearing American spirit under the sweeping hail of propaganda.
I have testified at my state capitol for the same causes and worked in the same campaigns as older generations of patriots have. And I saw them stand. They left a legacy you and I still live in the wake of every day. Americans know what happened over the last six years in our schools, our hospitals, our churches, and even our homes because they fought for us to know. I interacted with ordinary people who chose to stand and paid for it dearly.
Some lost their livelihoods, their health, and some even their right to walk free. It began with one voice here, and another voice there. They alone risked what big government, big business, and people with power would bring down on them for their action. Yet, it was enough to inspire others to rise with them.
Because of them, Americans are now more informed, and therefore more equipped, to fight propaganda in our midst.
But, young people, are we?
It isn’t enough for one of our voices to be heard. It isn’t enough for one patriot to salute. We need a young generation of patriots who will salute. A people who together speak. A nation that falls on its knees in acknowledgment of the God of righteousness. Young citizens who hail the Constitution, its protection of our rights, and its checks and balances will rise up and say the pledge proudly as one nation under God. And never get over it.
One truth. One God. One more chance.
What our country thinks of these principles will alone determine the question of her greatness.
I know what it is like to be in the company of patriots. I have more rarely found it my honor to be in the company of young patriots.
The colors. They must be hoisted again. Not by the aged, patriotic, should-be-honored generations that have gone on before us.
No.
They must be passed on to and raised and upheld by our young, strong, responsible arms that will carry them for our children. Freedom isn’t free. Let it sober us. Those who fought for us have to know they can trust us. That we aren’t just progressing our way, but the way God, Designer of our liberty, gives us the responsibility to. Not just for ourselves, but for our posterity.
Freedom – it lives or dies with us.
We are the remnant.
By Alise Uhl, 18 years old, and a 2024 Camp Constitution attendee.
Support for “Pride” Month Shows Measurable Decline:
The following is a news release from our friends at Liberty Counsel:
In 2026, reports indicate a dramatic reduction between 60-70 percent in corporate sponsorships for “pride” events as compared to recent years. This loss in funding, as well as local government funding, permits, and support, are forcing many major metropolitan events in areas like Arlington, Texas, Long Beach, Louisville, Nashville, New York City, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Tampa, and Tucson to scale back parades, cancel events altogether, or charge admission due to the “catastrophic” shortfall of funding. The LGBT advocacy organization “Phoenix Pride” recently filed for bankruptcy protection citing loss of “sponsorship and fundraising” due to the “current political climate.”
Notable companies backing off public alignment with LGBT support include Accenture, Amazon, Bank of America, BlackRock, Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co., Google, McDonald’s, Meta, Target, and more.
In addition, the Human Rights Campaign, a longtime LGBT civil rights advocacy group, also reported that 65 percent of the Fortune 500 companies once on its Corporate Equality Index withdrew their participation. The corporate pullback suggests businesses are interpreting public LGBT association as a financial risk amid consumer trends, shareholder concerns, and political pressure.
Dynamics for the month of June are also changing at the state level. In April 2026, Tennessee led the way declaring June 2026 as “Nuclear Family Month” celebrating God’s design for family and rejecting gender ideology and other “humanistic globalist ideologies.” On June 1, Indiana made the same recognition. In Arkansas, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared June “Fidelity Month” encouraging practices that cultivate a “fidelity to God,” while Oklahoma proclaimed June 2026 as “Life Month” to recognize the “inherent human dignity and value of every human life.” Also, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis designated June as “Faith and Family Month” recognizing religious faith, traditional family, and fatherhood as necessary pillars of safe and strong communities. These alternative observances directly combat radical, destructive ideologies and point back to faith and traditional family as the means for a free, wholesome, and lasting society.
In March 2026, Gov. DeSantis signed a bill into law that defunds any local government programming, policy, or activity designed to “provide preferential treatment” with respect to “race, color, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.” The law effectively bars local “pride” events in Florida from receiving state funds.
Declining alongside “pride month” participation is public opinion on “gender change” and “same-sex marriage.” A recent 2026 Gallup poll found that only four in 10 Americans view the attempt to change one’s gender “morally acceptable.” As for “same-sex marriage,” overall support waned from 72 percent in 2022 down to 65 percent, while the view that same-sex relationships are “morally acceptable” fell to 62 percent down from 71 percent in the same time frame. The poll also noted a significantly larger drop among the Republican demographic with only 37 percent now saying “same-sex marriage” should be legal, an 18 percent drop from 2022 (55 percent). The pushback against gender ideology is responsible for at least 27 states enacting laws protecting minors from harmful gender procedures and medical mutilation, 27 states protecting females from males in interscholastic sports, and at least 11 states introducing legislation to ban “same-sex marriage,” even though most of the marriage initiatives have failed to gain enough support for passage.
Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “The decline in corporate support for ‘pride month’ is in concert with consistent public pushback and a rise in federal and state actions against gender ideology. The cultural debate is far from over as it seems businesses are paying more attention to their financial bottom line than what is morally right. Eleven years past the Obergefell v. Hodges opinion regarding ‘same-sex marriage,’ we have drag queens with sexualized performances in front of children, males in female sports, and child medical mutilation. Now, this radical gender ideology is being rejected.”
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Tax the Sun? Camp Constitution Instuctor Professor Willie Soon on the Dr. Drew Show to Discuss the Climate Grift
Professor Willie Soon recently appeared as a guest on the “Ask Dr. Drew Show.” Professor Soon, an instructor at Camp Constitution’s annual family camp since 2017 has long been exposing the climate change hustle, and he does it with biting humor.
Remembering America’s Founding Principles: Inside Camp Constitution: An Interview of Hal Shurtleff by Pastor David Whitney
Camp Constitution instructor and host of “Don’t Imbibe the Kool Aid” interviews Camp Constitution co-founder and director Hal Shurtleff.
Pastor Dave’s show originates on America Out Loud News: https://www.americaoutloud.news/
The Weekly Sam: The Gangster Regime in Washington By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
A gangster is a member of a gang of individuals who are guilty of crimes. A crime, as
we all know, is an act violating a law that prohibits it. Most of our prohibitions are
based on the Ten Commandments. But many more prohibitions have been added by our
statist government such as failure to use a seatbelt or talking on a cellphone while
driving. But true gangsters are guilty of major crimes: murder, extortion, kidnapping,
theft, etc.
The problem with the regime in Washington is that the man in the White House refuses to
reveal his birth certificate or education records. Why? What is he hiding? Is he in
violation of the law requiring the a presidential candidate to prove that he is a natural
born American? And is he surrounded by a gang in the White House who are
accomplices in this great deception?
All of these accomplices in the White House and in Congress are clearly violating the
Constitution of the United States, which they have all sworn to uphold. That in itself is a
crime.
Furthermore, there is nothing in the Constitution that permits the gang in
Washington to bail out banks and insurance companies, take ownership of automobile
companies, impose a national health care plan, enact draconian restrictions on commerce
and industry in the name of global warming, or indoctrinate children in the public
schools.
Those who now occupy the White House believe that they are a law unto themselves and
no longer have to uphold the Constitution of the United States, which limits what the
federal government can do. The socialist gang in the White House believes in unlimited
government, capable of doing anything it wants. And those in Congress who agree with
the principle of unlimited government are equally guilty of violating their oaths of office.
And our national media, to its shame, casts a blind eye to all of the criminality now
taking place in Washington in the guise of “government.” That is the most disappointing
aspect in all of this: the news media of a free country which is supposed to be the
citizens’ watchdog, becoming an accomplice in the promotion of unconstitutional
government.
Not a single one of the well-paid talking heads will question the
constitutionality of what the White House is doing.
Because our mechanisms of government are now run by a gang, the entire system has
become corrupt from top to bottom. All of the departments ruled by the executive
branch are now run by Gangster Number One. He calls the tune, whether it be the
department of education, or of defense, commerce, or foreign affairs. The corruption
starts at the top and filters its way down to the bottom.
These are the facts of life that Americans must now confront. The Declaration of
Independence states that “all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to
suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed.“ In other words, the present situation, as bad as it is, has not
gotten bad enough to justify physical revolution. There is still the ballot box, and
Americans will be able to get the gangsters out of Washington in the Congressional
election in 2010. It is then we shall know to what the degree the American people have
become as corrupt as their government, or whether they still believe in the Constitution of
the United States.
What is particularly disheartening and somewhat startling is the sight of elected
American lawmakers, so-called Democrats, finally showing their true socialist colors.
These enemies of the American system now occupy the halls of Congress and many state
legislatures, doing all in their power to transform the nation our founding fathers gave us
into one resembling any number of decrepit socialist utopias spreading misery around the
world. Our legislators and leaders have brought us to this precipice, using trillions of
taxpayer’s dollars to finance all of their criminal projects. But only the American people
can set things right again. And let’s pray that they do.
Editor: The above article comes from the Blumenfeld Archives: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
The Weekly Sam: HOME SCHOOLING AND THE EDUCATIONAL CRISIS by Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Home schooling is now the fastest growing educational phenomenon in the United States. For example, in April of this year, Massachusetts had its first home-school convention and more than 600 registries showed up, many with babes in arms preparing for the future. These are young Christian families who have decided that their children will never see the inside of a public school. No one knows exactly how many children are being educated at home. Estimates vary from 200,000 to a million. What we do know is that there are now home-school associations in every state and more home-school conventions, conferences, seminars, workshops, and book fairs than anyone family can attend.
Why is the home-education movement attracting so many new young families? Much of it has to do with the renewal of the Christian family and the desire to adhere to Biblical principles in child rearing. The growing knowledge among Christians that the public schools are aggressively proselytizing Christian children into humanism via such programs as values clarification, sensitivity training, globalism, multiculturalism, evolution, sex education, and death education is perhaps the most compelling reason why parents are turning to home schooling as the preferred alternative. Also, many families are disappointed in the lukewarm religious content of many Christian schools that seem to adopt too much from the public schools in curriculum and general practice.
What the parents want is a strong, radical shift in orientation toward the Bible. They seek its moral and spiritual security in a world inundated by pornography, drugs, violence, abortion. political corruption and pagan depravity. The home school is being recognized as perhaps the only sure safe haven for children growing up in an increasingly dangerous society. Meanwhile, the education establishment has become quite concerned with the growth of the Horne-education movement, which is contributing to the exodus from the public school. In fact, in its 1988 convention, the National Education Association virtually declared war on home education with its Resolution C-34:
“The National Education Association believes that home-school programs cannot provide the child with a comprehensive education experience. “The Association believes that, if parental preference home-school study occurs, students enrolled must meet all state requirements. Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used. The Association further believes that such home-school programs should be limited to the children of the immediate family, with all expenses being borne by the parents.”
While the NEA deprecates the home school as an educational institution, the home schoolers are proving that their children are indeed getting a “comprehensive education experience” far superior to the academic junk-food that public schoolers are fed for twelve years and result in declining test scores and increased functional illiteracy. All of this has led to an education reform movement which is costing the taxpayers additional billions without any visible improvement to date. In addition, wherever home schoolers have been tested~ they’ve done better than their public-school counterparts. For example, in Tennessee, where about 900 home schoolers were registered with the state in 1989 — even though it is estimated that about 4,000 Tennessee children are being taught at home — home schoolers did quite well. The Chattanooga News-Free Press of Dec. 11, 1989, reported:
“State tests show that second graders are about equal to their classroom-educated counterparts. But by the fifth grade, home schoolers have passed their classroom peers in reading, and by the seventh grade home schoolers excel in both math and language, scores show.”
In 1987, the performance of homeschoolers in Tennessee was equally impressive. Of the 561 homeschoolers tested, 213 outscored 245,000 of their public school counterparts. Fifty-nine homeschool second graders were among the nation’s top 16 percent in reading ability and in the top 10 percentile in math. In the eighth grade, 30 homeschoolers scored 89 percent in reading and 79 percent in math. The 61,518 public school students scored 82 percent in reading and 72 percent in math. (Chattanooga Times, 8/13/87).
The reason why home schoolers do so well is because one-on-one tutoring is far superior to the classroom situation where children who need help get lost in the crowd. In tutoring you get immediate feedback, immediate correction, and thus the child is less likely to develop bad academic habits. Also, home-schooling parents are more apt to teach their children to read by intensive phonics than by the discredited, inefficient look-say or whole-word method. This makes an enormous difference when the goal is academic excellence.
Another reason why home schoolers excel is because home educators are highly motivated, dedicated parents, committed to providing their children with the best education possible. They want their children to become the best that America has to offer. The home-educated youngster represents the finest expression of the American Christian character; moral in behavior, peer independent, self-confident, respectful of elders, self-disciplined, inventive, freedom loving, patriotic, enterprising, God fearing. These are the youngsters who will become the leaders of tomorrow. It is symptomatic of our corrupt, paganized society that it is the finest Christian families, who have accepted their responsibility to educate and rear their children in a Godly manner, who are being , harassed and prosecuted by educational bureaucrats and state attorneys in Iowa, Michigan and elsewhere, determined to impose an atheistic sovereignty over God’s children. There will be many trials and tribulations in the days ahead, but in Christ, victory is ultimately assured.
(The above article is from the Sam Blumenfeld Archive:
http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
CAMP CONSTITUTION LADIES’ 2026 SPRING FLING/ADVANCE REPORT OF ACTIVITIES by Mrs. Edith Craft
May 1, 2026 – May 3, 2026 – Sixth Annual Spring Fling/Advance – Alton Bay Christian Center, Alton, NH
Camp Constitution Ladies started the weekend on Friday night with a Potluck that was so generously, abundantly supplied with Main Dishes, Salads, Breads, Desserts, and Beverages, etc. There was much more food than our group of Ladies could possibly eat. Special Treat: Ever Sweet Shop (cookie decorating) with Lacey Lounsbury. Here was a ‘craft’ you could eat!! There was great fellowship while eating, getting to know first-timers, greeting returning friends, and enjoying singing at an indoor ‘campfire!’ (Noted: warm and dry!)
We had a full Agenda of speakers, sharing God’s Word, sharing encouraging words with each other, crafts to be assembled, beautiful Camp Constitution shirts to purchase, and an array of books for purchase, just to mention a portion of our continuous activities.
Guests Presenters/Speakers and their topics or gifts were: Pat Palmer, first-time music presenter with piano and songs; Morning Chair Yoga, first-time attendee, Priscilla Feeney; Devotions: “Prayer” Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 with Priscilla Terry; Michelle Gallagher spoke on “The Forefathers Monument” (using a fact-filled PowerPoint presentation and presenting the book she authored); and Deb Roux spoke on the Guide to the Forefathers Book Project and reminded us to join in the celebration of America’s 250 Anniversary, attending activities in Plymouth, MA. Our very own Roberta Stewart spoke on “What to Do When I’m Gone,” complete with guide books to aid the process of connecting with family and loved ones. All of the beautiful, ingenuous crafts were presented by Maura Shurtleff who is uniquely gifted in the area of craft-making. What a line-up of activities!
One great, effective activity was to Pray Every Hour on the Hour which was started years earlier by a precious prayer warrior, Sapphire Giminez. Every Lady was encouraged to participate just by praying whatever was on their heart. What an enriching and emboldening activity!
Every meal from the Dining Hall was delicious, plenteous, and well-presented by a friendly and accommodating staff. No one could leave a meal without being full and satisfied.
CC Ladies’ Sixth Annual Spring Fling/Advance was made possible and successful by hard-working, dedicated organizers: Roberta Stewart, Maura Shurtleff, Kathy Mickle, and Hal Shurtleff. We had our very own RN on site, Kathy Mickle. Special Thanks! To ALL hands-on organizers and sponsors.
Every attendee was abundantly blessed by all the gifts and special treats that were provided and covered in one inclusive fee. The generosity of this group far exceeds most gatherings of ladies’ groups.
As you read the above Blessings experienced this May, 2026, please consider our next Advance!
The Most Honorable Work in the World Culture spent fifty years convincing women it wasn’t. by Alexander J. Destino Jr.
Is there a greater honor or more important job in the world than being a wife and mother?
God designed women for this calling and equipped them for it — nurturing, strength, instinct, and love. No man can replace what they do. It is the foundation of the family — where faith is first formed and where civilization begins.
“She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.” — Proverbs 31:25
Being a wife and mother — there is nothing more feminine, more powerful, or more purposeful a woman can do. It is exactly what God created her for. But generations of women have been told by the culture that fulfillment is found somewhere else. It never was.
“She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.” — Proverbs 31:27
This is not a small calling. This is world-shaping work. The fruit of a faithful mother lasts forever.
“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.” — Proverbs 31:28
Convincing women that motherhood is somehow “less than” is one of the greatest lies ever told. The progressive feminist movement promised liberation. What it delivered was a second full-time job — and the American family paid the price.
Most mothers today aren’t choosing between career and home. The choice was made for them. There was a time in this country when a family could have a home, a car, two or three children — and do it on one income. That wasn’t a fairy tale. That was America. When the culture told women the home was beneath them, it also helped engineer an economy that made sure they couldn’t afford to stay there. Then it called that progress.
The women who worked full-time and came home to be mothers anyway — they are not the failure of this story. They are the strength of it. They did what they had to do. The failure belongs to the culture that put them there.
“Train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind.” — Titus 2:4–5
This calling was never meant to die with one generation. It was meant to be passed down.
Any political movement that builds a serious economic framework to allow families to thrive on one income again will have the support of the American people for generations. The family vote is the most powerful vote in this country. When families can survive on one income, families will flourish — and this nation will properly raise its children again.
The resources are there. The billions wasted on fraud, bloated bureaucracy, and programs that have done nothing to strengthen the American family could be redirected toward the people doing the most important work in the world — raising the next generation.
God did not make a mistake with His design for marriage and motherhood. The mistake was abandoning His design.
And it is never too late to find our way back.
(Reposted with permission from the author. )
The Weekly Sam: How to Dumb Down a Nation By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
It’s easy. Destroy its literacy, and you’ve dumbed it down. And once dumbed down, it
becomes the potential victim of any power that wants to dominate it.
If you look at the most illiterate nations on the planet, you find that they are ruled by
despots, their people live in abject poverty and have no hope for a better future. That
doesn’t mean that literate nations, like Germany, can’t produce monsters. But when they
do, we know that satanic influences are behind it.
America, from its beginning, was the most literate nation on earth, and the result was
positive in every respect. Why was it so literate? Because the people and their leaders
were governed by the precepts of the Bible, and biblical literacy was paramount in the
education of the country’s children.
But once we got a government schooling system, which was taken over by atheist
progressive educators, the God of the Bible was removed from the schools. It then
became possible to introduce a new socialist curriculum with teaching methods
calculated to reduce American literacy. The Bible was now relegated to an hour of study
in church on Sundays. And because it was no longer part of the curriculum, children no
longer considered it important to life.
A blatant, anti-biblical morality was introduced in the schools through such programs as
values clarification, sensitivity training, transcendental meditation, sex education, death
education, drug education, multiculturalism, psychotherapy, evolution, secular
humanism, and other such programs. Moral degeneration has been the inevitable result.
The result is that America has been greatly dumbed-down.
(The above was written by my late friend and mentor Sam Blumenfeld about twenty-five years ago. Sam offered
a solution and that was his “Alpha-Phonics.” We have his “Alpha-Phonics” with all 128 lessons in audio or video free or charge
here: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm or a hardcopy available from our on-line shop:
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April 19, 2026 Marks the 251st Anniversary of the Battle of Concord and Lexington-The Shot Heard Around the World
Today, April 19, 2026 is the anniversary of the Battle of Concord and Lexington.
This video begins with a narration of the event, and then we see the Lexington Militia, led by Captain John Parker, mustering on the green, taking roll call. Shortly thereafter, the British, led by Major James Pitcairn, demanded that the “rebels’ lay down their arms, and then the “shot that was heard about the world “rings out. The brief battle ends with the loss of eight militiamen including Jonathan Harrington who crawled across the road and died in his wife’s arms, and ten wounded including Prince Estabrook, a slave who eventually got his freedom. Only one British soldier wounded during the short battle. The British went on to Concord where they met stiff resistance and were driven back to Boston.
Camp Constitution provides tours of Concord and Lexington. To schedule a tour, please call Hal Shurtleff 857-498-1309 or E-mail him at campconstitution1@gmail.com