patriotism

The Real Story Behind the Gettysburg Handshake

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We all know the iconic photo: an old Union veteran in blue shaking hands with a Confederate in gray at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. It’s become the symbol of forgiveness — proof that America “healed” fifty years after the Civil War. But the truth underneath it is far more complicated.

Twenty-Five Years After 9/11: The Day America Lost Its Nerve—and Its Freedom

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Next year marks twenty-five years since that blue-sky morning when the towers fell, the Pentagon burned, and the nation swore we’d never forget. We promised unity, courage, and vigilance. We sang “God Bless America” on the Capitol steps. And then, almost overnight, we traded freedom for fear and called it patriotism.

Good, Meet Evil

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The culmination of the Left’s gender bending, death cult brainwashing was evident in last week’s assassination of Charlie  Kirk, whose only “crime” was speaking freely about his Faith, Family and Country, and his only weapon, a microphone. 

The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 1

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Former POW of the Viet Cong, COL James N. Nick Rowe sits for an interview on resilience.

What I could use is in this 5th Generation War is 12 psychological gifts from the king of resilience, COL James N. “Nick” Rowe, U.S. Army Green Beret and survivor of five years as a Viet Cong prisoner of war in the swampy U Minh Forest of southernmost Vietnam.

Not my Father’s (or my Mother’s) Democratic Party

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My parents were lifelong Democrats. My mother sometimes volunteered at polling stations during primary and general elections. My father, a lifelong salesman with a great gift of gab, occasionally canvassed for various Democratic candidates.