Town of Alton, NH Memorial Day Observation May 26, 2025
The Town of Alton, New Hampshire knows how to observe Memorial Day. This event was sponsored by the Claude R. Batchelder Post #72. Numerous community groups participated in this event including the Alton Community Church, Boy Scouts, Prospect Mountain High School Band, Alton Dance Academy, Alton Youth League, Alton Police and Alton and New Durham Fire Departments.
Pastor Casidy of the Alton Community Church opened in prayer then a short parade from Monument Square to Riverside Cemetary where a short service was held, and then back to Monument Square where short speeches and the Decoration of the War Memorials were made. It closed with the singing of God Bless America and Amazing Grace led by Alton Selectman Paul LaRochelle.
Education Options New Hampshire: An Interview with Jody Underwood
We had the opportunity to interview Jody Underwood, President of Education Options New Hampshire Home – EdOpt Since last summer, Jody’s group holds two-to-three-hour expositions around New Hampshire. These expos are usually held in a public library or a local church. Attendees at these expos are offered alternatives to government schools from homeschool cooperatives, private schools, Christian schools, on-line resources like our Sam Blumenfeld archives http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm a as well as extra-curricular activities including day and overnight camps. These expos are also an excellent place to network. At the Weare expo held earlier this week, members of a local homeschool cooperative asked us to speak to their group.
From Ed Opt’s website:
Our mission is to provide information, support, and connections to families who want to explore education options. To do this, we hold expos in different regions around the state, connect people to the resources that will help them, and support families in their efforts to educate their children.
EdOpt is a 501(c)(3) non-profit education organization. We accept tax-deductible donations to help us with our mission.
Is There White Genocide in South Africa?
Last week, the Trump Administration allowed abut fifty White South Africans who claimed that they were targets of government sanctioned persecution. Some of the Left took strong exception to the White South Africans presence in the United States and their claims of persecution.
In 2019, Camp Constitution’s chaplain Rev. Steve Craft was in South Africa and interviewed Hanna, a White South African who discusses the persecution that White South Africa farmers and their families are facing including murder and torture:
The Weekly Sam: The National Education Association Trojan Horse in American Education
Author and homeschool pioneer Sam Blumenfeld gave this presentation shortly after his book exposing the NEA was published
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2025-05-17T16_09_59-07_00
This audio is from the Sam Blumenfeld Archive:
http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
Actor says abortion of his son ‘eats at my soul’
‘I don’t know what else to say about it except I wonder what he might have done in life’
In his recently-published memoir, “Karen: A Brother Remembers,” actor Kelsey Grammer revealed that two of his preborn children were aborted — experiences that appear to have greatly affected him. While society parrots the idea that abortion is solely a woman’s issue, Grammer’s story of abortion regret underscores the reality that men are also impacted by the killing of their preborn children.
‘The abortion of my son eats at my soul’
According to People, Grammer wrote that in 1974, a former girlfriend aborted their child. Though Grammer said he was “willing” to keep the baby, he “did not plead with her to save his life,” and instead “volunteered to have my son’s body vacuumed out of his mother’s.”
“I regret it. That’s all I meant to say,” he said, adding, “I know that many people do not have a problem with abortion, and though I have supported it in the past, the abortion of my son eats away at my soul.”
Grammer also railed against the abortionists responsible for killing preborn children, saying, “The doctor, or so-called doctors, who have executed generations of children in this manner — I have no idea how they call themselves doctors. Something about the ‘first, do no harm’ thing. But I offer no controversy.”
The topic also came up during a recent interview with Parade magazine, in which he spoke of his aborted son, saying, “It’s a lingering regret. Yeah, it lingers. I don’t know what else to say about it except I wonder what he might have done in life and how much potential existed.”
Years later, Grammer experienced abortion a second time when doctors convinced him and his wife Kayte that aborting their son was necessary so that the baby’s twin, Faith, might live. In explaining what happened, it’s clear that Grammer understands that abortion is the killing of a preborn child.
“We killed our son so Faith might live. We wept as we watched his heart stop,” Grammer wrote. “It is the greatest pain I have ever known. Kayte’s scream was enough to make a man mourn a lifetime.” Faith is now 12 years old, and Grammer has seven born children in all.
Though these experiences appear to have had a profound impact on his life, his views about abortion seem unclear.
“I supported the idea that a woman has the right to do what she wants with her own body. I still do,” he wrote. “But it’s hard for me. Still is.”
Grammer and his wife Kayte actually attended the March for Life in 2016, and the National Right to Life Convention the year prior. His wife Kayte posted to Instagram after the March, “There are better ways to avoid pregnancy than abortion. We advocate those. We can respect a woman’s right to choose and respect a child’s right to life at the same time. They do not need to stand in opposition. We need never kill another innocent life. Respect life.”
Grammer has even been criticized for proudly wearing a pro-life t-shirt — making it difficult to decipher his remarks (and hers).
Men regret abortion too
Regardless of whether or not he supports abortion, it’s clear that Grammer — like countless other men — has experienced post-abortion grief and trauma. In sharing his story, he is helping other men impacted by abortion, affirming that they are not alone in the pain they feel.
A study from Support After Abortion found that “one in seven men may be coping from negative impacts from abortion.” The study report explains, “Men in the study reported depression, sadness, guilt, regret, anxiety, anger, thoughts of what could have been, emptiness, substance abuse, a sense of lost fatherhood, and other emotions.”
Live Action News has shared some of those men’s stories, including in its Can’t Stay Silent campaign.
(Reposted with permission from World Net Daily.)
Camp Constitution’s 17th Annual Family Camp Two Months Away
Camp Constitution will hold its 17th Annual Family Camp at the Singing Hills Christian Camp https://www.singinghills.net/ Plainfield, NH. from Sunday July 13 to Friday July 18, 2025.. A minimum deposit of $100. is required. A link to the camp registration: https://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/
Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution, Keith Hanson of Critical Dynamic, Professor Willie Soon, world renowned astrophysicist and climate realist, Catherine White of The Constitution Decoded, Alex Newman, author and host of the Sentinel Report, and Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain.
Guest instructors are Mr. Kurt Hyde, retired Lieutenant Colonel from the US Air Force, and election fraud expert, and. Mrs. Michelle Gallagher, author of Forefathers Monument Guidebook In addition to the classes, the camp will offer marksmanship courses, martial arts, hiking, basketball, volleyball, wiffleball, and optional field trip and swimming, chess, gaga and corn hole tournaments. Campers and staff end the day with an evening campfire.
Camp Constitution’s annual camp is a family camp open to entire families, unaccompanied minors, and adults. The cost for the week which includes lodging, meals and class handouts is $300 for those 13 and over. $200. For campers 12 and under, and three and under with parents are free.
Can’t attend but would like to help a family or young person attend? Please consider making a donation. Donations may be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net. or by check payable to Camp Constitution and mailed to me at 146 Powder Mill Rd. Alton, NH 03809
For more information contact Hal Shurtleff (857) 498-1309 campconstitution1@gmail.com
The Weekly Sam: Sam Blumenfeld on Camp Constitution’s YouTube and Podomatic Pages
In addition to the Sam Blumenfeld Archives, we have posted some of Sam’s lectures and presentations on our YouTube Channel, and in audio format, on our Podomatic page:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2025-05-03T15_57_33-07_00
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The Weekly Sam: Ten Reasons Why Christian Parents Should Take Their Children Out of Public Schools By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
There has been much debate of late among Christians whether or not their children
should be taken out of the public schools and put into private Christian schools or
homeschooled. I firmly believe that they should be taken out, and I’ve outlined ten good
reasons why this should be done, and done as soon as possible.
The first reason is pretty obvious. The Bible commands parents to bring up their
children in the love and admonition of the Lord. We read in Deuteronomy 6:6: “And
these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach
them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
How can a Christian parent obey that commandment and put a child in a school that is so
militantly anti-Christian and anti-God? The public schools represent the antithesis of a
Godly education. They should not be patronized by Christians.
Reason two: The public schools are not only anti-Christian but represent a government
establishment of religion called Humanism. Your child is at risk of being deChristianized
by the religion of public education. Here’s what humanist John J. Dunphy wrote in the
Humanist magazine of January 1983:
“I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in
the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as
proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects
the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers
must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist
preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead
of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of
educational level-preschool day care or large state university. The classroom
must become an arena of conflict between the old and the new-the rotting corpse
of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of
humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized
Christian ideal of ‘love thy neighbor’ will finally be achieved.”
We already know that millions of Christian children have lost their faith because they fell
prey to humanist proselytizers who preach that God does not exist and that human beings
can be as gods. Do you have any guarantee that your child will be immune from these
lies?
Reason three: The educators have redefined the purpose of education. Its purpose is no
longer to impart academic skills so that your child can develop independent intelligence,
and make a life for himself. The new purpose of education was defined by Professor
Benjamin Bloom in his book, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, published in 1956, in
which he wrote:
“By educational objectives, we mean explicit formulations of the ways in which
students are expected to be changed by the educative process. That is, the ways in
which they will change in their thinking, their feelings, and their actions …. The
evidence points our convincingly to the fact that age is a factor operating against
attempts to effect a complete or thorough-going reorganization of attitudes and
values …. The evidence collected thus fur suggests that a single hour of classroom
activity under certain conditions may bring about a major reorganization in
cognitive as well as affective behaviors.”
As a Christian parent you will never know-and you will never be told-when that single
hour of classroom activity will be sprung on your child. The child who returns home
from school that day, may not be the same child you sent to school that morning. You’ve
played Russian roulette with your child’s spiritual life, and you’ve lost. In addition, this
change of values between children and parents inevitably leads to intense conflict within
the family. When children adopt humanist values, they become haters of their family’s
biblical values. That’s what destroys so many Christian families.
Reason four: Public schools now teach sex education almost as a form of pornography,
encouraging children to engage in premarital recreational sex. The result is that many
Christian girls have lost their virginity, developed sexually transmitted diseases, become
pregnant, had an abortion, and lost their self-esteem. The boys, under peer pressure, are
forced into sexual intimacy long before they are ready to be fathers. The children are
considered animals with no control over their sexual urges.
Reason five: Drug education arouses interest in drugs, especially when the children are
told that they must make their own decisions about drugs. This gives children a choice,
which any Christian parent would consider the wrong thing to do. There is no decision
making when it comes to drugs. A Christian child need not know all about drugs. All he
needs to know is that drugs are unequivocally forbidden. But that’s not the message
conveyed in the public schools. The result? Many Christian children get into drugs and
become hooked.
Reason six: As you know, we are presently involved in a life-and-death cultural war
between Christianity and secular humanism. When you patronize the enemy’s
institutions you are giving tacit approval of what that institution stands for. In addition, if
you have any understanding of the forces that oppose us, you know that they have
billions of dollars with which to fight us. So why give them your children? If you want
to win this war, the easiest, least bloody way to win it is by withdrawing your children
from their institutions. They cannot succeed without your children. It’s as simple as that.
So by giving them your children you are helping them tie the noose around the neck of
Christianity.
Reason seven: It is unreasonable to expect Christian children to be missionaries in the
public schools when they have not had professional training, are unable to answer the
arguments of their enemies, gain the contempt of their teachers, and become demoralized
in the process. You can’t expect children to do the job which even adults find difficult.
Reason eight: Satanists in the public schools have targeted Christian students for
persecution and even murder. That’s what took place at Columbine High School in
Littleton, Colorado, and also in a school in Paducah, Kentucky. In other words, Christian
children are at risk in public schools where Bible reading and prayer are outlawed, but
Satanism isn’t. Satanists have free reign in the public schools and your child may
become a victim of their evil force.
Reason nine: Children in the public schools are considered to be animals, because the
behavioral psychology that now governs public education is based on the theory of
evolution which claims that human beings and monkeys have a common ancestor.
Humanist behaviorists use animal training techniques to teach your precious child who
was made in the image of God. But the schools teach your child that he or she is simply
a higher form of monkey. When children accept the notion that they are animals, they are
apt to act as animals, without conscience, without a sense of moral absolutes.
Reason ten: Because of widespread educational malpractice in the schools, your child is
in danger of becoming learning disabled, dyslexic, or afflicted with attention deficit
disorder. Your child is in danger of becoming functionally illiterate. At least thirty
percent of the children in public schools emerge at the end of the process unable to read
properly, spell correctly, or do basic arithmetic. Do you have a guarantee that your child
will not be a victim of this educational malpractice?
I’m sure that I could come up with many more reasons. But these ten I hope will give
Christian parents enough food for thought so that they will make the right choice in favor
of God’s commandment. The public schools cannot be saved by Christians. Nor should
Christians want to save them since they have been rendered morally dangerous by
Supreme Court decisions and the likes of the National Education Association.
By withdrawing your children from the public schools, you will be making your own
declaration of independence from the satanic institutions that the public schools have
become. You will be exercising the precious freedom you still have to take control of
your children’s education. And by doing so, you will be preserving the heritage of
freedom to pass on to your children, and your children’s children.
(The above comes from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives. To sign up, follow this link http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
Camp Constitution celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington
Camp Constitution celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington this past weekend April 18-19. We started with our 3rd Annual Homeschool Overnight at the Lane House, located a few blocks from the Green, where attendees observed the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere which ended at the original Hancock-Clark House where Sam Adams and John Hancock were staying when Paul Revere warned them that the “regulars” not the British were coming.” We returned to the Lane House for a few hours of sleep before walking down to the Lexington Green to watch the reenactment of the Battle of Lexington. This was the first year that VIP viewing passes and media credentials were few and far between. As a result, we didn’t get a good video of the event, but here is a link to last year’s reenactment:
After the reenactment, we went back to the Lane House for a hearty breakfast and a few hours’ sleep before getting our float ready for the Lexington Parade.
(Hancock-Clark House Lexington) (Some of our attendees in front of the Lexington Library)
The Parade Committee would not allow those with floats to hand things out to the on-lookers during the parade, but we did manage to pass our pocket copies of the U.S. Constitutions and information to those stopping by our float prior to the parade. Many took pictures of the float with our banners. A lady from Finland hoping to become a U.S. citizen thanked us for our efforts but lamented that most Americans know little about our Constitution. Another woman from Thailand who is a naturalized citizen shared the same sentiments.
Thanks to all who attended and helped out. A special thanks to Dennis Pierson for lending us his trailer, Pastor Steve Barberadt of the Black Robe Regiment http://www.blackrobereg.org/ for the use of his truck and marching in the parade, and Jonathan Swartz for his shuttle services.
He is Risen! “I know that my redeemer liveth” American Minute with Bill Federer
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