by Dirt » Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:15 pm
Happy Fourth of July, 2017! PaladinWarriors!
for the website, paladinwarriors.us
To commemorate this extra-special holiday for Americans, i humbly submit a story that is profound and poignant and true. It is a story written by Alexander Rose that has been made into a prolific and fantastic television program by AMC, entitled "TURN: Washington's Spies," now in its fourth season. And as Mr. Rose so honestly writes about its uniqueness, in truthful rendering, is that it is a story about ordinary people, in this case American colonists, during the tumultuous and puzzling period of our American Revolution -- for without their strength and will, determination and courage our nation may not have ever been born, let alone unite into one -- and the budding and blossoming of these United States of America: this land of beauty and promise, dignity and honor, and heroic stands that endure proudly. Mr. Rose writes that it was these ordinary farmers and merchants, craftsmen and businessmen -- both men and women -- who were "frail, flawed, and fearful." Yet, they overcame these haunting, confusing, doubting aspects of human nature to fight and believe in what they viewed as their right: their right to be free from tyranny, from injustice, from gross acts of economic, judicial, legislative, and emotional rule.
These ordinary individuals suffered, lost, feared the worst, yet, they endured, prevailed, and were finally victorious. Without such Americans as this ragged and fragile group of spies for General George Washington -- himself a man of virtue, honor, humility, strength -- i wonder sometimes where would we be, what would this place we call America look like, in all its failings and shortcomings, all its virtue and reverence for liberty and life.
To such good and noble and ordinary common Americans i salute and send high into the sky those sparkling fireworks of the kind i lovingly and loyally remember upon an ordinary hillside amidst apple and cherry and pear trees where i and a noble and strong family (and friends forever) watched burst into the dark sky to light it majestically in honor proud.
Please, enjoy this treasured holiday, all PaladinWarriors, all Americans! For without those Abraham Woodhulls and Anna Strongs perhaps we would still be merely a colony of Great Britain thinking of ways to outwit them.