Memorial Day Ceremony Alton, NH May 27, 2024
Due to the bad weather, the parade, service at Riverside Cemetery, and the service at Monument Square with the decorating of the monuments was canceled. This even was by hosted by the American Legion’s Claude R. Batchelder Post 72 in Alton, NH. It was presided over by Commander Dave Hussey, Chaplain George Feeney played “Taps” and recited the Veteran’s Prayer. Russ Sample led us in singing “God Bless America, and the Lord’s Prayer.
James Garfield’s 1st Memorial Day Speech May 30, 1868
I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung. With words we make promises, plight faith, praise virtue. Promises may not be kept; plighted faith may be broken; and vaunted virtue be only the cunning mask of vice. We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue. For the noblest man that lives, there still remains a conflict. He must still withstand the assaults of time and fortune, must still be assailed with temptations, before which lofty natures have fallen; but with these the conflict ended, the victory was won, when death stamped on them the great seal of heroic character, and closed a record which years can never blot.
I know of nothing more appropriate on this occasion than to inquire what brought these men here; what high motive led them to condense life into an hour, and to crown that hour by joyfully welcoming death? Let us consider.
Eight years ago this was the most unwarlike nation of the earth. For nearly fifty years no spot in any of these states had been the scene of battle. Thirty millions of people had an army of less than ten thousand men. The faith of our people in the stability and permanence of their institutions was like their faith in the eternal course of nature. Peace, liberty, and personal security were blessings as common and universal as sunshine and showers and fruitful seasons; and all sprang from a single source, the old American principle that all owe due submission and obedience to the lawfully expressed will of the majority. This is not one of the doctrines of our political system—it is the system itself. It is our political firmament, in which all other truths are set, as stars in Heaven. It is the encasing air, the breath of the Nation’s life. Against this principle the whole weight of the rebellion was thrown. Its overthrow would have brought such ruin as might follow in the physical universe, if the power of gravitation were destroyed and
“Nature’s concord broke,
Among the constellations war were sprung,
Two planets, rushing from aspect malign
Of fiercest opposition, in mid-sky
Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound.” (From Milton’s Paradise Lost)
The Nation was summoned to arms by every high motive which can inspire men. Two centuries of freedom had made its people unfit for despotism. They must save their Government or miserably perish.
As a flash of lightning in a midnight tempest reveals the abysmal horrors of the sea, so did the flash of the first gun disclose the awful abyss into which rebellion was ready to plunge us. In a moment the fire was lighted in twenty million hearts. In a moment we were the most warlike Nation on the earth. In a moment we were not merely a people with an army—we were a people in arms. The Nation was in column—not all at the front, but all in the array.
I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost; that the characters of men are molded and inspired by what their fathers have done; that treasured up in American souls are all the unconscious influences of the great deeds of the Anglo-Saxon race, from Agincourt to Bunker Hill. It was such an influence that led a young Greek, two thousand years ago, when musing on the battle of Marathon, to exclaim, “the trophies of Miltiades will not let me sleep!” Could these men be silent in 1861; these, whose ancestors had felt the inspiration of battle on every field where civilization had fought in the last thousand years? Read their answer in this green turf. Each for himself gathered up the cherished purposes of life—its aims and ambitions, its dearest affections—and flung all, with life itself, into the scale of battle.
And now consider this silent assembly of the dead. What does it represent? Nay, rather, what does it not represent? It is an epitome of the war. Here are sheaves reaped in the harvest of death, from every battlefield of Virginia. If each grave had a voice to tell us what its silent tenant last saw and heard on earth, we might stand, with uncovered heads, and hear the whole story of the war. We should hear that one perished when the first great drops of the crimson shower began to fall, when the darkness of that first disaster at Manassas fell like an eclipse on the Nation; that another died of disease while wearily waiting for winter to end; that this one fell on the field, in sight of the spires of Richmond, little dreaming that the flag must be carried through three more years of blood before it should be planted in that citadel of treason; and that one fell when the tide of war had swept us back till the roar of rebel guns shook the dome of yonder Capitol, and re-echoed in the chambers of the Executive Mansion. We should hear mingled voices from the Rappahannock, the Rapidan, the Chickahominy, and the James; solemn voices from the Wilderness, and triumphant shouts from the Shenandoah, from Petersburg, and the Five Forks, mingled with the wild acclaim of victory and the sweet chorus of returning peace. The voices of these dead will forever fill the land like holy benedictions.
What other spot so fitting for their last resting place as this under the shadow of the Capitol saved by their valor? Here, where the grim edge of battle joined; here, where all the hope and fear and agony of their country centered; here let them rest, asleep on the Nation’s heart, entombed in the Nation’s love!
(Camp Constitution’s motto is “Honor the Past….Teach the Present….Prepare the Future.” https://www.campconstitution.net
Memorial Day –Honoring American Heroes of Courage, Sacrifice, & Faith – American Minute with Bill Federer
& Faith Memorial Day –Honoring American Heroes of Courage Sacrifice
Memorial Day in America, as an annual observance, can be traced back to the end of the Civil War, a war in which over a half-million died.
Southern women scattered spring flowers on graves of both northern Union and southern Confederate soldiers.
Many places claimed to have held the original Memorial Day, such as:
- Warrenton, Virginia;
- Columbus, Georgia;
- Savannah, Georgia;
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania;
- Boalsburg, Pennsylvania;
- Waterloo, New York.
One such place was Charleston, South Carolina, where a mass grave was uncovered of 267 Union soldiers who had died in a prison camp.
On May 1, 1865, former slaves organized a parade, led by 2,800 singing black children, in which they prayed, read Bible verses, sang spirituals, and reburied the soldiers with honor as an act of gratefulness for their ultimate sacrifice which gave them freedom.
In 1868, General John A. Logan, commander of the Civil War veterans’ organization “The Grand Army of the Republic,” called for a Decoration Day to be observed annually on May 30.
An estimated 180,000 Black soldiers served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Republican abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a Decoration Day address at Arlington National Cemetery in 1871:
“We must never forget that the loyal soldiers who rest beneath this sod flung themselves between the nation and the nation’s destroyers.”
President James Garfield’s only executive order was in 1881 where he gave government workers May 30th off so they could decorate the graves of those who died in the Civil War.
In 1921, President Warren Harding had the remains of an unknown soldier killed in France during World War I buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery.
Inscribed on the Tomb is the phrase:
“HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD.”
Since 1921, it has been the tradition for Presidents to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The number 21 being the highest salute, the sentry takes 21 steps, faces the tomb for 21 seconds, turns and pauses 21 seconds, then retraces his steps.
The number 21 is explained on the U.S. Army Center of Military History website (history.army.mil/index.html):
Warriors … demonstrated their peaceful intentions placing their weapons in a position that rendered them ineffective …
Rendering a salute by cannon originated in the 14th century as firearms and cannons came into use. Since these early devices contained only one projectile, discharging them once rendered them ineffective.
Originally warships fired seven-gun salutes–the number seven probably selected because of its astrological and Biblical significance … The Bible states that God rested on the seventh day after Creation, that every seventh year was sabbatical and that the seven times seventh year ushered in the Jubilee year.
Land batteries, having a greater supply of gunpowder, were able to fire three guns for every shot fired afloat, hence the salute by shore batteries was 21 guns …
Early gunpowder, composed mainly of sodium nitrate, spoiled easily at sea, but could be kept cooler and drier in land magazines. When potassium nitrate improved the quality of gunpowder, ships at sea adopted the salute of 21 guns.
The 21-gun salute became the highest honor a nation rendered …
Great Britain, the world’s preeminent seapower in the 18th and 19th centuries, compelled weaker nations to salute first …
Eventually, by agreement, the international salute was established at 21 guns, although the United States did not agree on this procedure until August 1875.”
On Memorial Day, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge stated:
“There can be no peace with the forces of evil. Peace comes only through the establishment of the supremacy of the forces of good.
That way lies through sacrifice … ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.'”
The Memorial Day poem, “In Flanders Fields,” was composed during World War I, by a Canadian Expeditionary gunner and medical officer named John McCrae, who fought in the Second Battle of Ypres near Flanders, Belgium.
Describing the battle as a “nightmare,” as the enemy carried out one of the first chlorine gas attacks, McCrae wrote:
“For seventeen days and seventeen nights none of us have had our clothes off, nor our boots even, except occasionally. In all that time while I was awake, gunfire and rifle fire never ceased for sixty seconds …
And behind it all was the constant background of the sights of the dead, the wounded, the maimed, and a terrible anxiety lest the line should give way.”
Finding one of his friends killed, McCrae helped bury him along with the other dead in a field.
Noticing the field covered with poppy flowers, he wrote:
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”
Notable individuals who fought in World War I include:
- Sergeant Alvin York, who single-handedly took out 35 machine guns and captured 132;
- John J. Pershing, General of the Armies;
- Douglas MacArthur, Brigadier General;
- George S. Patton, tank commander;
- Leonard Wood, future Army Chief of Staff;
- Harry S Truman, artillery officer and future 33rd President;
- Eddie Rickenbacker, commander of 94th Areo Squadron;
- Quentin Roosevelt, a pilot, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was shot down and died;
- Charles Whittlesey, commander of the “Lost Battalion” behind lines;
- Frank Luke -“balloon buster”;
- Irving Berlin, composer of “God Bless America”;
- Edouard Izac, naval office captured on a U-Boat, who escaped;
- Henry Johnson of the “Harlem Hellfighters”;
- Dan Daly, Marine Sergeant charged and captured machine gun nests;
- Ernest Hemingway, author of A Farewell to Arms;
- J.R.R. Tolken, British author of The Lord of the Rings;
- C.S. Lewis, British author of The Chronicles of Narnia.
One soldier was Orval William Epperson.
Born on a rugged Ozark farm near Anderson, Missouri, he fought in France, being assigned to the 338th Machine Gun Battalion 88th Division.
Upon returning to America, he married Therese DeBrosse, and had three children: Joan, Orval Wilford, and Tirzah, the mother of the author of this article.
Orval and Therese’s only son was Orval Wilford “Billy” Epperson.
He served in World War II as a bombardier on a B17 Flying Fortress, 525th Squadron, 379 Bomb Group A.P.O. 550 (#0-768946).
23-year-old “Billy” Epperson flew from Camp Crowder in southwest Missouri to Kimbolton, England.
He had written a Mother’s Day note to his mom, tied it with a handkerchief to a small weight and dropped it from the plane as it flew over his hometown of Neosho, Missouri.
A neighbor got it and brought to his mother, who lived at 344 S. Hamilton.
Little did either know that that would be the closest they would be again, as Billy was shot down by the Nazis over the English Channel near Holland on July 9, 1944.
His name is on the monument near Omaha Beach, at the Cimitière Amèrican de Normandie (in Colleville-sur-Mer, France) at the Killed in Action Wall (“Tablet of the Missing”).
On June 6, 1944 President Franklin Roosevelt offered a D-Day Prayer, which is now part of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., thanks to the effort led by Chris Long of the Ohio Christian Alliance, as documented in his book For Their Honor:
“My fellow Americans: … I ask you to join with me in prayer:
Almighty God, Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization …
Give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces …
We know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph … Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.”
In 1958, President Eisenhower placed soldiers in the tomb from World War II and the Korean War.
In 1968, one hundred years after the first observance, Memorial Day was moved to the last Monday in May.
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan placed a soldier from the Vietnam War in the tomb.
DNA test later identified him as pilot Michael Blassie, whose A-37B Dragonfly was shot down near An Loc, South Vietnam.
He had graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1970, and prior to that, graduated from St. Louis University High School in 1966, ten years before the author of this article.
In 1998, Michael Blassie’s remains were reburied at Jefferson Memorial Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.
In 2000, Congress passed The National Moment of Remembrance Act (Public Law 106-579), whereby on each Memorial Day, at 3:00pm, citizens should pause for a moment of prayer:
“Congress finds that … it is essential to remember and renew the legacy of Memorial Day … to pay tribute to individuals who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the United States …
Greater strides must be made to demonstrate appreciation for those loyal people … whose values, represented by their sacrifices, are critical to the future of the United States …
and to encourage citizens to dedicate themselves to the … principles for which those heroes of the United States died …
A symbolic act of unity … to honor the men and women of the United States who died in the pursuit of freedom and peace … as a day of prayer for permanent peace.”
Memorial Day grew to honor all who gave their lives defending America’s freedom in every war, including:
- Revolutionary War (1775-1783) 25,000;
- Barbary Wars (1801-1805; 1815) 45;
- War of 1812 (1812-1814) 20,000;
- Mexican-American War (1846-1848) 13,283;
- Civil War (1861-1865) 625,000;
- Spanish-American War (1898) 2,446;
- World War 1 (1917-1918) 116,516;
- World War 2 (1941-1945) 405,399;
- Korean War (1950-1953) 36,516;
- Vietnam War (1955-1975) 58,209;
- Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) 258;
- Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan (2001-2014) 2,356;
- Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2012) 4,489; and
- subsequent wars against Islamic terrorism, securing our borders, and in Ukraine.
At the Memorial Day Ceremony, May 31, 1993, President Bill Clinton remarked:
“The inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier says that he is ‘Known but to God.’
But that is only partly true. While the soldier’s name is known only to God, we know a lot about him.
We know he served his country, honored his community, and died for the cause of freedom. And we know that no higher praise can be assigned to any human being than those simple words …
In the presence of those buried all around us, we ask the support of all Americans in the aid and blessing of God Almighty.”
Charles Michael Province, U.S. Army, wrote the poem:
“It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.”
Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary stated in its definition of “MEMORIAL”:
“That which preserves the memory of something … A monument is a memorial of a deceased person, or of an event. The Lord’s supper is a memorial of the death and sufferings of Christ.”
Memorials are important in Scripture. The Lord told Moses in Exodus 12:
“Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel …
In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house … Your lamb shall be without blemish … And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day … and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses … For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and … execute judgment … and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you …
And this day shall be unto you for a MEMORIAL … throughout your generations … an ordinance for ever.”
Memorial is mentioned in Joshua, chapter 4:
“When all the people were clean passed over Jordan … Joshua called the twelve men … out of every tribe …
And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder …
… That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan … and these stones shall be for a MEMORIAL unto the children of Israel for ever.”
In his Memorial Day Address, May 31, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge said:
“Settlers came here from mixed motives … Generally defined, they were seeking a broader freedom.
They were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance to the principle of self-government …
It has been said that ‘God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness.'”
Coolidge was citing an Election Sermon given in Boston, April 29, 1669, by Massachusetts Governor Judge William Stoughton, who described the Puritans fleeing persecution in England to settle in the New World:
“God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.”
Henry W. Longfellow used a similar line in his classic Courtship of Miles Standish:
“God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.”
This was explained further in Benjamin Franklin Morris’ classic The Christian Life and Character of The Civil Institutions of The United States (1864):
“The persecutions of the Puritans in England for non-conformity, and the religious agitations and conflicts in Germany by Luther, in Geneva by Calvin, and in Scotland by Knox, were the preparatory ordeals for qualifying Christian men for the work of establishing the civil institutions on the American continent.
‘God sifted’ in these conflicts ‘a whole nation that He might send choice grain over into the wilderness’; and the blood and persecution of martyrs became the seed of both the church and the state …
It was in these schools of fiery trial that the founders of the American republic were educated and prepared for their grand Christian mission …
They were trained in stormy times, in order to prepare them to … establish the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty and of just systems of civil government.”
Concluding in his Memorial Day Address that America’s republic is worth preserving, President Calvin Coolidge stated May 31, 1923:
“They had a genius for organized society on the foundations of piety, righteousness, liberty, and obedience of the law …
Who can fail to see in it the hand of destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided by a Divine Providence?”
Douglas MacArthur told West Point cadets, May 1962:
“The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training-sacrifice.
In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image …
No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of Divine help which alone can sustain him.
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.”
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The Weekly Sam: How to Dumb Down a Nation by Sam 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 had a solution to the dumbing down of America with his Alpha-Phonics. Please visit his archive: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
Why Does The Lasker Foundation Refuse to Acknowledge Its Founders’ Racist Roots?
If you visit the Lasker Foundation’s website https://laskerfoundation.org/ and click “About Us.” this is what you will find:
“Our Mission
To improve health by accelerating support for medical research through recognition of research excellence, advocacy, and education.
What We Do
We celebrate the contributions of scientists, clinicians, and public servants who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevention of human disease. Our programs educate the public and promote scientific collaboration, and we advocate for a healthier world through medical research.
The Legacy of Albert and Mary Lasker
Mary Woodard Lasker (1901–1994) was a champion of medical research. She and her husband, pioneer advertising executive Albert Davis Lasker (1880–1952), established a legacy of advocacy and philanthropy in support of science and health.
Mary Lasker was one of the country’s best known and most effective activists in the cause of increased public funding for medical research. For decades, she tirelessly persuaded the American public that the national investment in medical research would yield invaluable benefits for human health. Her simple warning was, “If you think research is expensive, try disease!” Mrs. Lasker’s early efforts focused on developing public support to advance research on cancer. She founded the Citizens Committee for the Conquest of Cancer and took her cause to Congress and the American public as a leading proponent of the National Cancer Act, which was signed by President Nixon in 1971. Her ardent advocacy for greater government funding of all the medical sciences contributed to increased appropriations for the National Institutes of Health as well as the creation of several NIH institutes.
Mary Lasker’s work transformed the medical research enterprise, which earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. As a permanent monument to her efforts, in 1984 Congress named the Mary Woodard Lasker Center for Health Research and Education at the National Institutes of Health.”
But what you won’t find on the website is the fact that Albert Lasker was the main financial backer of the infamous and racist “Negro Project.” He donated at least $20,000 (worth approximately $1/2 million today.) The Negro Project was the brainchild of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. The goal of the Negro Project was to promote birth control among Blacks. The project set up birth control clinics in the South. Here is transcribed letter from Sanger to Dr. Clarence Gamble in 1939 mentioning Lasker’s role in the project:
Casa de Adobe Catilina Foothills Tucson, Arizona
November 26, 1939
Dr. Clarence Gamble
255 Adams St.
Milton, Mass
Dear Dr. Gamble:
It is good to know that you are better again and now we must all see that your ulcers must never again be worried. Miss Rose sent me a copy of the letter that Dr. Morris wrote to Mr. Lasker. I know a copy was sent to you. I am rather distressed the way the project is about to be handled, yet I believe there is nothing much I can do about it. None of my suggestions seem to get to first base these days and so the best thing to do is not to send them on, but I feel very sad over the lack of vision with which this Negro project is to be handled. Both Mrs. Rinehart and I put in a lot of thought on this and there is no doubt that if the first thousand dollars is wisely expended, we can depend upon a generous contribution for the future. I object strenuously to putting all of our eggs in one basket; in other words, to take either North or South Carolina as the nucleus. What I wish to see is the employment of an up and doing modern minister, colored, and an up and doing colored medical man, both to come to New York and train at the Clinic and at the Federation. Until they are oozing with birth control as well as population…. They should then be sent out to cover the South and as many cities and organizations and churches and medical societies as they can get before to preach and preach and preach! That should be the job for them both for at least six months. On a second round as a checkup, they would soon find what impression was made and after one year of education agitation among the colored people, we could then support a practical campaign for supplying the mothers with contraceptives.
Naturally, one would ask why North and South Carolina does not already give such information and supplies to their colored people, and while I have great respect for Dr. Cooper, Norton, Sibilis – I do not believe that this project should be directed or run by white medical men. The Federation should direct it with the guidance and assistance of the colored group – perhaps, particularly, and specifically formed for the purpose. I hope these few words will not cause you to worry but doubtless you have become philosophical and feel that those on the job at 501 had best run the show.
Ever my best regards.
Margaret
(Albert Lasker, Negro Project Funder)
Sanger’s racist roots have been well established from her own writing to her association with Nazis and Klansmen although she appeared to prefer the company of communists
In her December 10, 1939, letter to Gamble, Sanger wrote:
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Sanger’s contemporary apologists explain that her critics misinterpret her meaning. But her earlier words belie that contention. For example, in her book The Pivot of Civilization, she advocated for the “elimination of human weeds,” and for the sterilization of “genetically inferior races.” The fact that she enlisted the likes of white supremacist Lothrop Stoddard and Dr. Ernest Rudin, the man in charge of Nazi Germany’s forced sterilization program doesn’t help the case of her apologists.
The “Mrs. Rinehart” mentioned in the letter was none other than Mary Lasker. Mary was married to art dealer Paul Reinhardt prior to her divorce and marriage to Lasker. Mary was a close friend of Sanger who in 1938 became the president of Sanger’s Birth Control Federation of America renamed Planned Parenthood Federation.
(Mary Lasker giving Lyndon Johnson the 1966 Lasker Award. Johnson, along with M.L. King, received the 1st Annual Margaret Sanger Award that same year.)
I discovered this information while researching the correspondence between Sanger and Dr. Clarence Gamble housed at the Harvard Medical School Library. I published the letters in the book The Racist Roots of Planned Parenthood and its Legacy of Death which can be ordered here: The Racist Roots of Planned Parenthood and Its Legacy of Death | campconstitution.net or a free PDF here: https://campconstitution.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Racist-roots-of-planned-parenthood-proof.pdf
Prior to the book’s publication, I reached out to the Lasker Foundation to see if they had a statement on the racist and white supremacist roots of its founders. They never replied. I have reached out a few times since with the same results. Ironically, Gamble’s organization Pathfinder, at least acknowledges its founder’s racist roots not that it forced its leadership to end its founder’s vision: controlling the births of non-whites. Even Planned Parenthood has felt the heat. Due to exposure of Sanger’s racism, it has discontinued its Margret Sanger Award in 2015 and even renamed one of its abortion mills
Will the Lasker Foundation acknowledge the racist roots of its founders? That is all up to the readers, especially those in the media. I recommend that readers of this article contact the Lasker Foundation and perhaps sent them a link to this article and ask when they will come clean and denounce its racist roots. The Lasker Foundation’s contact info:
Mailing Address:
405 Lexington Ave, 32nd Floor
New York, NY 10174
E-mail: info@laskerfoundation.org
Telephone: 212-286-0222
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We are frequent guests on regional and national media outlets. We have a publishing arm which has reprinted timeless classics, as well as new books. Our website contains important information on a wide range of topics. We host dozens of speaking events and are hosted by groups from the Northeast to Michigan to Florida. We man information tables at regional home school conventions and Chrisitan and patriotic organizations. We enter floats in regional parades where we distribute pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution. We have donated over 30,000 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution-may to schools. We have donated hundreds of copies of Sam Blumenfeld’s Alpha-Phonics to schools and homeschoolers. Our 9-0 Supreme Court decision “Shurtleff v Boston” was a major victory for free speech and religious liberty http://www.lc.org/flag More importantly, we have made a positive, in some cases, life changing, impact on thousands of people.
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The Weekly Sam: Dumbed-Down Brits Victims of Progressive Education By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Jay Leno, in his amusing Jay Walking adventures, interviews young Americans whose
appalling ignorance of history, geography, and other areas of basic knowledge, has
become the subject of great hilarity. Many of them couldn’t tell you who was buried in
Grant’s tomb.
But now we learn from across the pond that young Brits have been so dumbed-down that
23 percent of them believe that Winston Churchill was a mythical figure, and 58 percent
believe that Sherlock Holmes was a real person.
According to the Boston Herald (2/6/08), seventy-seven percent of these clucks readily
admit that they don’t read history books, and three out of five never watch historical
programs on television. Of course, the reason why they don’t read history books is
because they are functionally illiterate.
In fact, a new book, The Great Reading Disaster, has just recently been published in
England exposing the fact that young Brits are taught to read with the dyslexia-producing
Whole Language method, which has also become the present ruin of American education.
The authors, Mona McNee and Alice Coleman, write: “Forcing children to read whole
words by the look-say method is like telling young piano learners to play a piece in the
correct tempo, without being taught the individual notes or the significance of their stave
positions….It is cruel to inflict such frustration on children and the cruelty is not
restricted to childhood. It is even more cruel and humiliating when it leaves people
illiterate for life.”
Even Margaret Thatcher couldn’t get the educators to change their ways, though she
appointed a Committee of Inquiry to investigate the teaching of reading in the schools.
Apparently, the Progressives were clever enough to pay lip-service to phonics, ridiculing
their advocates, but meanwhile continuing to support the whole-word method.
We’ve experienced the same situation here in the U.S. where No Child Left Behind was
supposed to change the way reading is taught in American schools. In fact, a special
billion-dollar reading initiative was passed by Congress to get phonics back into the
schools. But the educators charged the government with a bias in reading instruction,
which was discriminatory against Whole Language educators. And from what I have
been told by teachers in the field, Whole Language is still the dominant way reading is
taught in American schools.
The two British authors write: “It took 40 years to produce the first six million adult
illiterates but only another ten to increase the total to nine million. The annual rate has
doubled.” And the reason why nothing will change despite the alarm sounded by this new book is
because of the tight control that the Progressives have over the entire British education
system. According to the Sunday Telegraph of June 27, 1993, the controlling cabal is
called the All Souls Group, which holds its “clandestine thrice-yearly meetings” in an
oak-paneled room at Oxford University.
No minutes are kept of the meetings and no papers or public statements ever emerge.
The discussions over evening sherry or dinner are protected by Chatham House Rules
which dictate proceedings are off the record. Chatham House is the British equivalent of
our Council on Foreign Relations. Membership is by invitation and the criteria are
shrouded in mystery.
Does such a secret education establishment exist in the United States? It does. It is
called the Cleveland Conference and was organized in 1915 by Prof. Charles Judd, head
of the University of Chicago School of Education, where William Scott Gray concocted
the Dick and Jane look-say, whole word, reading program. In his book, Managers of
Virtue, David Tyack writes:
[Judd] had a vision that both the structure of the schools and the curriculum
needed radical revision but that change would take place “in the haphazard
fashion that has characterized our school history unless some group gets together
and undertakes, in a cooperative way, to coordinate reforms.”
It is easy enough to follow the machinations of the Progressives by simply reading the
annual reports of the National Society for the Study of Education, founded in 1901. This
is the gathering place of the educational elite, and their annual reports can be found in
any university library.
For American parents, the only way to free themselves from the stranglehold of the
Progressive elite is to remove their children from the government schools and either
educate them at home or place them in a private school based on traditional principles
and teaching methods. As for the Brits, we hope that the new book awakens enough of
them to break the hold of the All Souls Group. But don’t hold your breath.
(The above article came from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives. Please visit the site and sign up. It is a free on-line resource: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
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Camp Constitution’s 16th Annual Family Camp is Less Than Two Months Away– Dr. Felecia Nace returns as an instructor
Camp Constitution 16th Annual Family Camp is less than two months away. It will be held at the Singing Hills Christian Camp https://www.singinghills.net/ Plainfield, NH. from Sunday July 14 to Friday July 19, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Felecia Nace who attended our 2020 camp and was the featured instructor at our 2024 Ladies “Spring Fling.” will return as an instructor at this year’s camp. Dr. Nace is the author of several books including book: Top-Down Confusion: Is Gray the New Pink in Education? Dr. Nace is a former language arts teacher at the Montclair Public School District, NJ. She was also employed as an Education Specialist for 13 years at the New Jersey Department of Education, worked for five years as an adjunct professor at Mercer County Community College, English Department, and is currently the Executive Director of Partners 4 Educational Change, an education consulting firm.
Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution; 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 Julie Wilkinson who played the abortion nurse in the movie “Unplanned: The Abby Johnson Story.” We are awaiting confirmation from Tucker Carlson.
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. The camp offers an “Early Bird” discount of $50, per person by registering by May 1. A link to the camp registration: https://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/
Can’t attend but would like help a worth young person or family attend? Consider making a donation earmarked for camp fee. Donations may be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net or a check payable to Camp Constitution and sent to Camp Constitution Director Hal Shurtleff 146 Powder Mill Rd. Alton, NH 03809
Roman Empire Persecutions – American Minute with Bill Federer
Roman Persecution of Christians
“Christian persecution ‘at near genocide levels'” reported the BBC, (5/3/19):
“A report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt … Christians were the most persecuted religious group … Mr Hunt said he felt that ‘political correctness’ had played a part in the issue not being confronted …
The interim report said the main impact of “genocidal acts against Christians is exodus” and that Christianity faced being “wiped out” from parts of the Middle East …
Evidence shows not only the geographic spread of anti-Christian persecution, but also its increasing severity.”
TheGatewayPundit.com (5/13/24)
The Christian church was born into persecution from an anti-Christian one world government — the Roman Empire.Eleven of the twelve apostles were martyred, with the 12th, John, being reportedly thrown into a boiling pot of oil, but miraculously survived.
Jesus said in Acts 1:8:
“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you:
and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
The word “witness” in Greek is “martyr.”
The traditional histories are:
- Peter preached in Rome and was crucified upside down c.66 AD;
- Andrew preached in Asia Minor, modern-day Greece and Turkey, before being crucified on a sideways “Saint Andrew’s Cross” around 60 AD;
- Thomas preached east of Syria, Parthia, and possibly India, and was pierced through with spears by four soldiers in 72 AD;
- Philip reportedly preached in Egypt, Carthage in North Africa, and Asia Minor. After converting the wife of a Roman proconsul in Phrygia, he was arrested and cruelly put to death in the city of Heliopolis around 80 AD;
- Matthew preached in Parthia, Persia and Ethiopia, where he was reportedly stabbed to death in the back in city of Nadabahl in 74 AD;
- Bartholomew, according to tradition, preached in India, Armenia, Ethiopia and Southern Arabia, before being skinned and martyred in the 1st century AD;
- James, the son of Zebedee, also know as “James, the greater,” was arrested by Herod Agrippa, and beheaded by the Romans in 44 AD;
- James, the son of Alpheus, also known as “James, the younger,” is said to have ministered in Syria, where he was stoned and clubbed to death in 62 AD;
- Thaddaeus, or Jude, preached in Asia Minor and Greece, till he was crucified in Beirut or Edessa around 65 AD;
- Simon the Zealot reportedly preached in Persia, Mauritania, on Africa’s west, and possibly England, before being crucified in 74 AD;
- Matthias preached in Syria, where he was burned to death.
The first martyr was Stephen, as told in the Book of Acts, chapter 7:
“When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
But Stephen, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven … And said, ‘Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God’ …
They cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul …
Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.'”
Saul converted and became the Apostle Paul, who preached in Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, and throughout the Roman Empire, till he was beheaded in Rome in 66 AD.
James the Just, also known as “James, brother of the Lord,” was one of the leaders of the early church in Jerusalem till he was martyred in 62 AD.
In 155 AD, Polycarp, a disciple of John, was ordered to deny Christ or die.
Polycarp responded:
“Eighty and six years have I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?”
Josh McDowell explained the significance of the Apostles being martyred in his best-selling book, Evidence That Demands a Verdict (1972).
The book was updated (2017) with his son and co-author, Sean McDowell, who stated:
“The apostles spent between 1.5 to 3 years with Jesus during His public ministry …
Although disillusioned at His untimely death, they became the first witnesses of the risen Jesus and they endured persecution; many subsequently experienced martyrdom, signing their testimony, so to speak, in their own blood …
Their willingness to die, indicates that they did not fabricate these claims; rather, without exception, they actually believed Jesus to have risen from the dead … lending credibility to their claims about the veracity of the resurrection, which is fundamental to the case for Christianity.”
Jesus foretold persecution in the Gospel of John, chapter 15:
“You are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you …
If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you …
But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me …
He who hates Me hates My Father also.”
Jesus said further in John 16:
“The time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them.”
Jesus forewarned in Matthew 24:
“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake …
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
The Book of Revelation, with chapter 12, stated:
“Now is come … the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
There were ten major persecutions of Christians in the first three centuries:
1) Nero A.D. 54-68;
2) Domition A.D. 81- 96;
3) Trajan A.D. 98-117;
4) Antoninus Pius & Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A.D. 138-180;
5) Severus A.D. 193 – 211;
6) Maximus A.D. 235-238;
7) Decius A.D. 249-251;
8) Valerian A.D. 253-260;
9) Aurelian A.D. 274-287;
10) Diocletian A.D. 292-304.
It was a criminal act for Christians to assemble.
If the government caught Christians meeting together, they were subject to being arrested and killed.
This resulted in Christians meeting in caves carved underground called “catacombs.”
Emperor Diocletian’s persecution was the worst.
When Diocletian lost battles in Persia, his generals blamed it on the army’s neglect of worshiping the Roman gods.
Diocletian ordered all military personnel and government employees to worship the Roman gods.
This order forced Christian soldiers to either go out of the military or into the closet.
After purging Christians from the military and government, Diocletian surrounded himself with anti-Christian advisers.
In 303 AD, he consulted the Oracle Temple of Apollo at Didyma, which told him to initiate a great empire-wide persecution of Christians.
Diocletian revoked the tolerance issued a previous Emperor Gallienus in 260 AD, and then used the military to force all of Rome to return to worshiping pagan gods.
What followed was a decade of the worst and most intense persecution of Christians to that date.
Diocletian had his military go systematically province by province forbidding church gatherings, arresting church leaders, burning scriptures, destroying church building.
He ordered the beautiful new church at Nicomedia to be torn down.
Christians were deprived of official ranks, lost their jobs, imprisoned, had their tongues cut out, were boiled alive, and even decapitated.
From Europe to North Africa, thousands were martyred.
The faithful cried out in fervent prayer.
Finally, Diocletian was struck with an intestinal disease so painful that he abdicated the throne on MAY 1, 305 AD.
The next emperor, Gelarius continued the persecution, but he too was struck with the intestinal disease and died in 311.
Emperor Constantine defeated Emperor Maxentius in 312 AD at the Battle of Romes’ Milvian Bridge.
In 313 AD, Constantine issued the Edit of Milan, ending the persecution of Christians.
Commenting on Roman persecutions was Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, the Democrat Party’s candidate for President in 1896, 1900, and 1908.
William Jennings Bryan, in his speech, “The Prince of Peace,” (New York Times, September 7, 1913), stated:
“I can imagine that the early Christians who were carried into the Coliseum to make a spectacle for those more savage than the beasts, were entreated by their doubting companions not to endanger their lives.
But, kneeling in the center of the arena, they prayed and sang until they were devoured …”
Bryan continued:
“How helpless they seemed, and, measured by every human rule, how hopeless was their cause!
And yet within a few decades the power which they invoked proved mightier than the legions of the Emperor, and the faith in which they died was triumphant o’er all the land …
… They were greater conquerors in their death than they could have been had they purchased life.”
It takes courage to walk in faith:
Joshua 1:9:
“Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
The Book of Revelation 21:8 lists cowards as the first ones thrown in the lake of fire:
“But the cowardly (fearful), unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
The Center for Studies on New Religions found that in 2016, over 90,000 Christians courageously kept their faith, even though they were murdered, 30 percent of whom were at the hands of Islamic terrorists.
Fox News published a report, January 6, 2017, titled “Christians the most persecuted group in world for second year.”
Open Doors UK & Ireland CEO Lisa Pearce reported:
“Persecution levels have been rising rapidly across Asia and the Indian subcontinent, driven by extreme religious nationalism which is often tacitly condoned, and sometimes actively encouraged, by local and national governments …
… If a Christian is discovered in Somalia, they are unlikely to live to see another day.
North Korea is at the top of the list of countries persecuting Christians, followed by nations practicing sharia Islam.
China has increased targeting Christians and demolishing churches.”
Catholic News Agency reported:
“All top 10 countries with the worst persecution of Christians are in Asia and Africa. Somalia ranks second on the list, followed by Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, and Eritrea …
More Christians were recorded as killed (in Pakistan) for their faith in 2016 than any other country.”
Open Doors reported that in 2016:
- Islamic fundamentalism is responsible for persecution of Christians in 35 of the top 50 countries;
- Pakistan is 4th in persecution, worse than northern Nigeria;
- Sudan is the 5th worst persecutor of Christians, with President Omar al-Bashir proclaiming, “Now we can impose sharia here”;
- Christians are killed in crossfire in Yemen, Syria and Iraq;
- Hindu nationalists have caused India to reach its highest level of persecution, battering churches;
- Laos, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Bhutan increased persecution;
- Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka has put the country among the top 50 persecutors;
- Turkish President Erdogan used a suspicious coup to eliminate opposition and increase persecution of Christians, moderate Muslims and non-Islamists.
President Ronald Reagan commented on the courageous Christians who suffered persecution in the Roman Coliseum at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 1984:
“This power of prayer can be illustrated by the story that goes back to the fourth century — the monk (Telemachus) living in a little remote village, spending most of his time in prayer …
One day he thought he heard the voice of God telling him to go to Rome …
Weeks and weeks later, he arrived … at a time of a festival in Rome …
… He followed a crowd into the Coliseum, and then, there in the midst of this great crowd, he saw the gladiators come forth, stand before the Emperor, and say, ‘We who are about to die salute you.’
And he realized they were going to fight to the death for the entertainment of the crowds.
He cried out, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’
And his voice was lost in the tumult there in the great Colosseum …”
He continued:
“And as the games began, he made his way down through the crowd and climbed over the wall and dropped to the floor of the arena.
Suddenly the crowds saw this scrawny little figure making his way out to the gladiators and saying, over and over again, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’
And they thought it was part of the entertainment, and at first they were amused.
But then, when they realized it wasn’t, they grew belligerent and angry …”
Reagan added:
“And as he was pleading with the gladiators, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’ one of them plunged his sword into his body.
And as he fell to the sand of the arena in death, his last words were, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’ …
… And suddenly, a strange thing happened.
The gladiators stood looking at this tiny form lying in the sand.
A silence fell over the Colosseum.
And then, someplace up in the upper tiers, an individual made his way to an exit and left, and the others began to follow.
And in the dead silence, everyone left the Colosseum.
That was the last battle to the death between gladiators in the Roman Colosseum.
Never again did anyone kill or did men kill each other for the entertainment of the crowd …”
Reagan ended:
“One tiny voice that could hardly be heard above the tumult. ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’
It is something we could be saying to each other throughout the world today.”
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Black Conservative Pastor, Rev. Steve Craft, Goes Off on White Liberal School Committee Members
Rev. Steve Craft, chaplain for Camp Constitution, goes off on all white school committee in Sutton, MA-a small town in Central Massachusetts. Like practically, all government schools across the United Stares, Sutton’s schools are promoting homosexuality, drag queen store hour, and the Marxist DEI and CRT. These comments were made on Thursday May 9, 2024
A transcript of Rev. Craft’s comments:
Everybody, look at me you see I’m not white. I’ve been black for 80 years and, won’t turn white no time soon. I keep hearing all this talk about racism and transphobia and homophobe and all these phobias, and I saw that PowerPoint up there, but I didn’t see anything about Bible clubs up there. I am a preacher, a preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and many of these parents in here don’t have opinions but they have principles because they love God and like I heard that brother over there say, and they want to know why straight white children are having this pumped down their throats about sodomy, about transgenderism. About a boy that can come to school one day and be a boy and the next day he’s a girl. That’s a lie from hell we have to come to reality there’s no truth in that nonsense. It’s damnable, and as a minister of the Gospel. I encourage every parent in here to stand against this lie that’s been spewed out in the pits of hell because that’s where it comes.
God created male and female. There’s no such thing as this trans nonsense. That’s mental illness at worst and demon possession at best. You want to talk about all this race nonsense. This is do with diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory. I don’t see a black kid in this school, and I don’t even live here. I’m a grandfather. (Right on brother.) If you were teaching my grandkids about they could be a boy on Monday a girl on Tuesday and a combination of both on Wednesday, we have an issue. Y’all that is real nonsense. You can look at every person in this place. Whatever side of they are on-all I see is male and female. Where are the other 90 genders? This is pure nonsense (amen). What we have to understand that if we’re going to have compassion, if we’re going to come down for compassion and understanding for all then we have to look to those who don’t agree with this mess not because of an opinion but because of Biblical principles that say sodomy is wicked.
(Applause from the audience.)
Readers interested in having Rev. Craft speak to your group, or your school committee may contact me at (857) 498-1309 or E-mail at campconstitution1@gmail.com
Rev’s bio:
The Reverend Steven Louis Craft holds a Master of Divinity Degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA and a Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Pastoral Counseling from Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. He has completed Clinical Pastoral Education at Boone Hospital Center, Columbia, Missouri. Rev. Craft is a member of the American Correctional Chaplains Association and is ordained as a Correctional Chaplain with the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A.. He formerly served as Correctional Chaplain at the Pine Prairie Correctional Center, the Missouri State Penitentiary and the Moshannon Valley Correctional Center in Central Pennsylvania.
Reverend Craft is the co-author of Virtue and Vice: A Fascinating Journey into Spiritual Transformation. He is also the author of Morality and Freedom: America’s Dynamic Duo. Rev. Steven is also a motivational and inspirational speaker on issues involving race, religion, politics, and culture from a Christian, Black American, Conservative perspective. As a flexible, multi-faceted speaker, Reverend Craft can compose his message to meet a variety of audiences, always promising an insightful and power-packed presentation. His latest book America Home of the Free or Land of the Slave was just released. He currently serves as the chaplain, instructor and speaker for Camp Constitution, and a pastor of a house church in Lexington, MA
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Thank you and thanking God for your steadfastness and eloquent representation of the reality of the cost of our freedom. I pray everyday 1 Timothy 2:1-8. Just finished 2 Yr at Charis Bible College, GOD is continuing my assignment to 3rd year School of Practical Government. With God All things are possible Mark 10:27
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. (Isaiah 33:22) Stay the course Brother Bill and let us be not weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. We are they and with God we are always the majority.
God’s BEST Blessings on you and all your loved ones everyday all day.
Molly Gimbert
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Thank you, William Federer, for this excellent article on the significance of Memorial Day to all Americans. May the Lord have mercy on America, and we who are privileged to live here.
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America’s Troops have from America’s founding served to defend, protect, preserve and secure the peoples God gives rights and freedom is it too much to ask that we the citizens of this great nation, America show our honor and respect for their service and sacrifice by holding to the liberties the many have fought and died to