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Evacuation Day March 17
Every year, the Henry Knox Color Guard of the Massachusetts Sons of the Revolution, https://www.massar.org/ , celebrate this important day in our history with a ceremony on Dorchester Heights. This ceremony took place on March 17, 2021. Camp Constitution was on hand:
American Minute with Bill Federer Saint Patrick and the times he lived in: He “…found Ireland all heathen and left it all Christian!”
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Reposted with permission from The American Minute
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.
(Sam’s solution was for parents to remove their children from the government schools and either homeschool or send them to private Christian schools.)
The Blumenfeld Archives http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
Join the Sam Blumenfeld Archive today. It is a free resource.
Public School Whistle Blower Ramona Bessinger Speaking at Camp Constitution Ladies’ “Spring Fling Held Friday May 1 to Sunday May 3
We are pleased to announce that Ramona Bessinger will be attending and speaking at our Ladies “Spring Fling” which runs from Friday May 1 to Sunday May 3 at the Alton Bay Christian Conference center.
Ramona was a 22-year veteran public school teacher in Rhode Island. In 2021, she took a stance against the DEI curriculum that was promoting race hatred in the classroom. This stance led to threats and intimidation, but she didn’t relent. Her story went national. She now dedicates her time exposing government schools and offers resources for parents.
Here is a speech she recently gave at the Rhode Island First Rally:
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A link to her website: www.ramonabessinger.com/about-4
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Activities include arts and crafts, Bible studies, optional marksmanship training, and an evening campfire. Our guest speaker will be Michelle Gallagher, author of Monumental Prayers and Forefathers Monument Guidebook.
The cost for the weekend which includes two nights of lodging, five meals and materials will be $200. per person. Payments can 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 C/O Hal Shurtleff146 Powder Mill Rd. Alton, NH 03809. For an application or more information, please call or E-mail Hal Shurtleff 857-498-1309 campconstitution1@gmail.com
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Today March 5, Marks the Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
Today is the anniversary of what became known as the Boston Massacre where five Bostonians were shot and killed by British soldiers.
In 2020, Camp Constitution attended the 250th anniversary of the Massacre which took place at the Old Granary Burial Ground where the victims are buried. The event was sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution with the Henry Knox Color Guard of the Sons of the American Revolution also on hand for the event.
May their memory always be honored.
Camp Constitution Needs to Replace Its Van. Can You Help?
Last week as I was heading from my home to a speaking engagement when the transmission in our van malfunctioned. I had the vehicle towed to our mechanic in Alton, NH. The van is a 2019 Chrysler Grand Caravan with over 178,000 miles. The mechanic gave us an estimate of between $5,500 to $6,000 to rebuild the transmission, but he recommended that due to the age and mileage of the vehicle, we not spent the money for a repair.
We decided to take his advice and will replace the vehicle. Thankfully, Roberta Stewart, a member of our board of directors, has generously allowed us the use of her truck until she returns to New Hampshire in May. We estimate that the cost to find a suitable replacement will be $30,000+. We have already received a pledge of $1,000.
We are asking our friends and supporters for donations to help cover the cost of a replacement van. Those who are able to help may donation via our PayPal accounted accessed from our website’s homepage: https://campconstitution.net/ or via check payable to Camp Constitution
Those who own a business or manage non-profits can become official Camp Constitution sponsors and be listed as a Camp Sponsor for donations of $100. or more: Camp Sponsors | campconstitution.net
Blessings,
Hal Shurtleff, Director
Camp Constitution
Alton, NH
(A picture of our van in 2019 after having Brice Socha did the signage.)
Ivy League Credentials Used to Mean Something Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth bars military officers from Ivy League programs — here’s why he’s right.
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On February 27, 2026, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed an order barring U.S. military officers from attending professional education programs at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, and MIT, among others, beginning in the 2026–27 academic year. His reasoning was direct — these institutions have become hostile to the values, mission, and culture of the American military.
The reaction from the left was immediate. Racism. Transphobia. Culture war. Political theater. Retaliation. The usual playbook.
Before accepting that framing, it is worth looking at what these schools actually did.
Hegseth didn’t arrive at this conclusion from the outside looking in. He went to Princeton. He earned his graduate degree at Harvard. He sat in those classrooms, walked those campuses, and watched how that world thinks and operates. He knows what is taught, what is rewarded, and what is quietly punished inside those walls.
When he signed that order, he wasn’t taking a political shot. He was doing what the record demanded.
And the record backs him up completely.
School by School
Columbia
The federal government froze $400 million in funding after finding the university had systematically failed to protect Jewish students. Swastikas drawn in classrooms. Formal complaints left uninvestigated for nearly two years. Columbia eventually settled — $200 million, federal oversight of its Middle East studies department, and a full overhaul of student discipline. One of the wealthiest universities on earth couldn’t bring itself to protect its own students. That is not a policy failure. That is a character failure.
Harvard
More than $2.2 billion in federal research funding frozen. President Claudine Gay was asked directly by Congress whether calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated campus policy. She couldn’t answer. She resigned shortly after — the shortest presidency in Harvard’s 386-year history — and was later found to have plagiarized portions of her own dissertation. Harvard is now in federal court fighting the freeze. They would rather litigate than lead.
Penn
$175 million in funding suspended. President Liz Magill resigned the same week as Gay, following the same congressional hearing, for the same reason. Two Ivy League presidents. One straightforward moral question. Neither could answer it.
Brown
A $510 million freeze threatened. Settled for $50 million. Brown’s administration had previously negotiated with protest encampments, promising a board vote on divesting from Israel. The board voted no. But the moment a university starts bargaining with the people shutting it down, it has already told you who is really in charge.
Yale
The ADL gave Yale a D on its 2025 Campus Antisemitism Report Card. The Department of Education opened two separate federal investigations for failing to protect Jewish students. Jewish students were physically blocked from entering campus events. Yale receives nearly $900 million annually in federal funding. All of it now sits under a cloud. They spent more energy watching what Harvard did than protecting their own students.
MIT
When the federal government offered universities a straightforward compact — merit-based admissions, free speech, no DEI — MIT’s president rejected it. MIT then sued the federal government to block funding cuts. When pressed on a DEI nonprofit under federal investigation, they cut ties only after being forced into the open. Brilliant institution. Wrong priorities. Every time.
The Diversity That Isn’t
These schools sell diversity as their highest virtue. It’s on every website, every banner, every commencement speech.
What they mean is representation of every identity — except the ones that built this country.
Their faculties vote for one party at rates above 95 percent. Not 51 percent. Not 60 percent. 95 percent. You won’t find conservative professors. You won’t find many Christians. Anyone who thinks differently learns quickly — keep your mouth shut or find somewhere else to work.
And Jewish students? They’re leaving. Between 2023 and 2025 Jewish enrollment dropped at Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and Penn — nearly 100 fewer Jewish students per class. One in three Jewish students on these campuses now says they censor themselves out of fear. In 1967 Columbia’s student body was 40 percent Jewish. These schools didn’t just fail their Jewish students. They drove them out.
That is not diversity. That is a closed system that costs families anywhere from $83,000 to nearly $100,000 a year — and hands you a credential at the end.
And they don’t survive on tuition alone. These institutions collect billions in federal funding every year. Taxpayer money. Working-class money. From the very people they look down on.
And for decades, that credential has flowed directly into the officer corps of the United States military.
What the Military Needs
The American military is built on people the Ivy League has never fully understood.
Young men and women who enlisted at eighteen. Families who prayed for their safe return. Communities that buried their own and kept going.
The military promotes on merit because failure costs lives.
What it needs from leaders is moral clarity, decisiveness, and a belief in the country they defend. What it does not need is officers shaped by institutions that have spent years teaching that America itself is the problem.
Thirteen service members were killed in Kabul. The Afghan government collapsed in seventy-two hours. Billions in equipment handed to the Taliban on live television. The leadership class overseeing that outcome held the finest credentials in the world.
The diplomas didn’t help.
The Bottom Line
Trump and Hegseth are not anti-education. They are anti-failure.
Institutions that couldn’t protect Jewish students, couldn’t answer basic moral questions, and have spent decades producing leaders more comfortable with ideology than strategy are not worthy partners for the United States Armed Forces.
For years, the Ivy League told working-class America that their faith was a crutch, their patriotism was naive, and their values were relics of a less enlightened time.
They were wrong.
The people carrying this country — in uniform, in factories, on job sites, in towns far from any Ivy campus — knew it all along.
Here is something worth remembering. Harvard was founded in 1636 to train clergy. Yale was founded by ten pastors. Princeton’s original seal still reads “Under God’s Power, She Flourishes.” Columbia’s first president said the school’s purpose was to teach students “to know God in Jesus Christ.” Brown was founded by Baptist churches. These were not secular institutions that happened to tolerate faith. They were built on it.
Every one of them.
They abandoned that foundation a long time ago. What replaced it was on full display when two of their presidents couldn’t tell Congress that calling for genocide is wrong.
You either stand for something or you don’t. These schools do stand for something. Just not America. Not her military. Not the Judeo-Christian values that built this country — and built them.
The families who send their sons and daughters to fight for this country never forgot where this nation came from.
The Pentagon hasn’t either.
It’s about time.
The Weekly Sam: Gavin Newsom Can’t Read. Sam Blumenfeld’s “Alpha Phonics” Can Help
In this short video, Hal Shurtleff, host of the Camp Constitution Report, discusses Gavin Newsom’s admitted illiteracy, what Sam Blumenfeld had to say about dyslexia and Sam’ solution: The use of phonics. Hal pointed out that the dismal results that we see in our nation’s government schools are the desired results as Sam proved many years ago.
A link to the archive: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/
Honoring the Memory of George Washington
| Today, February 22, 2026, marks the 294th anniversary of the birth of George Washington, who, in this writer’s opinion, was the greatest man born in America. He is rightfully known as the “Father of His Country.” At his funeral, Major General Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee said that Washington was “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Even his enemies had profound respect for him. When King George III heard that Washington planned to resign his commission and return to his farm, he said ‘If he does that ,he will be the greatest man in the world.”
While there are numerous biographies written about this great and good man, I recommend two short books and his “Farewell Address” “Washington’s 110 Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior” He wrote these 110 rules when he was 16 years old from a set of rules established by French Jesuits in 1595. Here is a sample of those rules: “When in Company, put not your Hands to any Part of the Body, not usually Discovered.” |
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| “In the Presence of Others Sing not to yourself with a humming Noise, nor Drum with your Fingers or Feet.”
“The Bullet Proof George Washington”: An account of George Washington’s part in the July 9th, 1755, battle during the French and Indian War. During the two-hour battle, the 23-year-old Colonel Washington had ridden on the battlefield, delivering the general’s orders to other officers and troops. The officers had been a special target for the Indians. Of the eighty-six British and American officers, sixty-three were casualties. Washington was the only officer on horseback not shot down. Following the battle, Washington wrote a letter to his brother in which he readily and openly acknowledged: “By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!” Fifteen years later, an old, respected Indian chief sought out Washington. The chief, explaining that he had led the Indians against them in the battle fifteen years earlier, revealed to Washington what had occurred behind the scenes during the conflict: “I called to my young men and said, mark yon tall and daring warrior. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies. Our rifles were leveled, rifles which, but for you, knew not how to miss–’twas all in vain, a power mightier far than we shielded you. Seeing you were under the special guardianship of the Great Spirit, we immediately ceased to fire at you…I am come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in battle.”
His “Farewell Address”: Washington’s plan to retire from office would come to be known as his “Farewell Address.” In 1792, when Washington considered leaving office, he had James Madison write a draft. In 1796, Alexander Hamilton did a rewrite and Washington edited it. The “American Daily Advertiser,” a paper in Philadelphia, the seat of the nation’s capital at the time, published it on September 19, 1796. Here are a few of the points that have stood the test of time: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain, would man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness” “It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding the exercise of the power of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments into one, and thus create whatever the form of government, a real despotism” and “The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.” May this generation of Americans endeavor to keep George Washington’s legacy alive.
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