Tag: Founding Fathers

Rock River Patriots Meeting Friday July 14th, 2017

The Rock River Patriots will be having a meeting on Friday July 14th at 6:00pm in Fort Atkinson at the Dwight Foster Library in the Community Room. The Dwight Foster Library is located at 209 Merchants Avenue. At this meeting we will discuss current events and initiatives. We welcome a special guest speaker who is going to talk about the Christian influences in America’s founding.  Hope to see you all there!

What would our founders think? July 4th column by Gary Mienert

What would our founders think? This is the fourth year I’ve been privileged to write a column for the Lakeland Times for Independence Day.  It is an honor for me to do so.  With celebratory intentions I’ve always attempted to write about our glorious nation and its bright future. Apologizing in advance, this column will not entirely reflect that objective. Our founding fathers provided us with two of the greatest documents ever written: The Declaration of Independence which we celebrate today and the Constitution. Those two magnificent instruments set us apart from every nation in the world, guiding us as we became the model for others to follow. How would our founding fathers judge us today? Thomas Paine’s musings from the distant past offers us a partial answer to that question. He wrote: “A thousand years hence, perhaps less, America may be what Europe is now…the noblest work of human wisdom, the grand scene of human glory, the fair cause of freedom that rose and fell.”  What would possibly cause him to prophesize the fall of the United States? A significant concern was explained succinctly by Thomas Jefferson as he philosophized “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,…

Rock River Patriots Meeting Friday July 14th, 2017

Happy Belated Independence Day! Instead of re-writing things that have already been posted, please view this link: HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY as a reminder of the past Independence Day thoughts from the RRP. The Rock River Patriots will be having a meeting on Friday July 14th at 6:00pm in Fort Atkinson at the Dwight Foster Library in the Community Room. The Dwight Foster Library is located at 209 Merchants Avenue. At this meeting we will discuss current events and initiatives. We welcome a special guest speaker who is going to talk about America’s Founding Fathers, their influences, and legacy.  Hope to see you all there!

Rock River Patriots Meeting Tomorrow Friday November 8th

The Rock River Patriots will be having a meeting tomorrow, Friday November 8th, at 6 pm in Fort Atkinson at the Dwight Foster Library located at 209 Merchants Ave.    At this meeting we will discuss current events and hear about the faith of our founders.   Hope to see you all there!

Founders Without Whom America Would Not Exist

From Chuck Baldwin Live As we enter another Independence Day weekend, I think it would be good to remind ourselves of who those men were that counted the cost and paid the price to bring this land of liberty into existence. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans today seem to have very little–if any–knowledge and appreciation for the sacrifices that our Founding Fathers made in order to birth this great country. We can thank the vast majority of our schools (including the institutions of higher learning), major media, political institutions, and even churches for this egregious embarrassment. Accordingly, I think it fitting that today’s column will attempt to renew in our hearts the respect and reverence that these great men whom we call Founding Fathers so richly deserve. George Washington Called “The Father of His Country,” George Washington was, perhaps, the most important man of the founding era. Supernaturally spared during the Indian wars, Washington became the military leader who held the Continental Army together when it was virtually impossible for any man to do so. Without his leadership at Valley Forge and elsewhere, there is absolutely no doubt that the Continental Army would have fallen apart and the fight…

Good Patrick Henry

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