As you might remember, the head of a company survived
9/11 because his son started kindergarten.
Another fellow was alive because it was
His turn to bring donuts.
One woman was late because her (more…)
By CTMCM William J. Dell, USN (Retired)
It is the year of our Lord two thousand ten and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-fourth. As I reflect upon the rich heritage of freedom which is ours, I am returned to the years of my youth in the Methodist Church where I first learned the strains of our Centennial Hymn [God of Our Fathers]. As I write this I wonder if we, as a people and a nation, can with fervor continue to sing its strains? Do we, as a people and a nation, really believe that the Divine Providence led this nation into existence? Can we, as a people and a nation, who once felt to raise songs of gratitude to the God of our fathers for our freedom and heritage feel so now?
God of our fathers, whose almighty hand
Leads forth in beauty all the starry band
Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies
Our grateful songs before Thy throne arise.
I make no apology for my belief that God did raise up the Founding Fathers to establish freedom’s beacon of hope (more…)
