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Purdence Cummings Wright

Promoted from the Comments – the story of Prudence Cummings Wright, a Patriot that rose up to meet Freedom’s need

One good post deserves another. On Sarah Chamberlin’s “Open Letter from an American Coward“, new(ish) commenter Bill Harris left this story about Prudence Cummings Wright. Sarah wrote about those that would enslave we Free Americans in our present time. Bill’s long comment is about what someone did about it from our shared past. I believe …

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On this day…Christmas 1776

My buddy Matt published this on Facebook today and, after seeing Steve’s earlier post, I thought it fitting to put up. Christmas Eve / Christmas Day History! George Washington led his troops across a 300-yard stretch of the Delaware River in the dead of night between December 25 and 26, 1776.  The surprise move would …

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And the Boston TEA Party gave us….the Betsy Ross Flag (among other things)

A cute little ditty on how America came to be… And the Betsy Ross flag, the flag that was about Independence and now the Socialists are trying to redefine it as a racist flag, was part of that process. You DO notice, don’t you, how everything about our Founding is now racist? That’s what this …

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What was the American Revolutionary War?

Thomas Fleming, in the July 2, 2012 Wall Street Journal: As the Revolutionary Way progressed, “not a few of the rebels saw that the Revolution was a spiritual enterprise that would never really end.” For today’s American patriots, so it continues to be….