Friday, July 3, 2026

Independence Day 2026

The results of opinion polls vary, depending on the bias of those conducting the poll. However, the findings of various recent opinion polls tend to show a decline in the numbers of our people who say that they are proud to be Americans. The polls reveal that many of our fellow citizens who are disaffected no longer believe in our country.  The majority of American Conservatives remain proud of the USA, while large numbers of Liberals and Independents and young people are not. [1] 

To paraphrase a comment by Author and Historian Victor Davis Hanson in the documentary program, The Fight of Our Lives, (Produced and Directed by Gloria Z. Greenfield): 

Just because we are not perfect, doesn’t mean we are no good at all. 

We concede that America is not perfect, and it is the duty of our citizens to work toward improving our country. However, we must understand that since the 1960’s there has been a concerted effort by the educational system, the liberal press, well-funded radical extremist groups, and power-hungry leftist politicians to convince us that our culture and our economic and political system need to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. 

Ronald Reagan is reported to have said, “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.” 

If people take the trouble to inform themselves, they will find that on the balance scales of History the good our country has done far outweighs the bad.  Therefore, let’s celebrate America’s birthday with a mindset that she has been a force for good more than a force for evil. 

Please pray for the United States of America.  We must not become so divided that we enter into conflict with one another.  We have only to look at the tragedy of our Civil War to understand that we need to work together to carry on the continuous improvement that has happened in the USA over the last 250 years. 

The Gettysburg Address

Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa. on Nov. 19th, 1863 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. [2]

 

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