Freedom-Fighters Forum

By William J. Dell – 29 June 2011
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

Our Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy in 1892 in preparation for the 400^th anniversary of Columbus discovering America. Initially, two sets of words were not included in the Pledge. The words “of America” were added on Flag Day in 1924 and the words “under God” were added thirty years later on Flag Day in 1954.

As I write this article, I am returned to the days of my youth and elementary school. There each and every morning, we would stand by our desks with our hands over our hearts as our teacher led us in the Pledge, a practice that continues to this day. It was however disheartening to learn that in our High Schools today, unlike my High School days, the Pledge seems to only be required once a week.

The decade of the fifty’s seems to have much more love of country than there is in today’s America. The crowds that attend patriotic celebrations are very much diminished from the crowds of my youth when it seemed as if the whole community turned out to celebrate Freedom, Liberty and our America.

It was reported on the news today that at least in one city, Eugene, Oregon, the reciting of the Pledge is said to be divisive. So divisive that the Mayor and City Council have voted to only require it four times a year near patriotic holidays. This agreed upon practice it was reported was a compromise with those who did not want to recite it at all!

Why is it that “citizens” of our great Constitutional Republic find it difficult to pledge their allegiance to our flag and our nation? As part of the Citizenship Ceremony those immigrants who would be citizens must do so. Yet some of those who were born in the greatest country on earth, those who have benefitted because of its exceptionalism, and politicians sworn to defend its Constitution, at least in Eugene, Oregon think that the Pledge is divisive and should not be required at all!

We, in this great nation, need to return to the values of our forefathers when God, Family and Country meant something. Of a truth, the majority of the ills in our nation today can be traced to the neglect of these values. We, as individuals and as a nation, need to once again stand for something, because for more than fifty years we have been falling for anything. It is the lack of the values of our forefathers that have divided rather than united us as a nation. It is “the hyphen” that has made America a sectioned plate of ______ – Americans rather than the great melting pot of our ancestors.

Since the early 1960s, we, as a nation, have denied the God that caused this nation to rise. It was then that the courts, without citing a single precedent, began to remove God from the public place denying that the United States was established as a Christian nation. Having accomplished that, the next assault began on the family and the destruction of all its traditional values. The wanton murder of unborn children and same-sex unions are but two examples of this. Lastly, for seventy-five years the inexorable efforts of our politicians to destroy our Constitutional Republic by diminishing the freedoms of We the People and our unalienable rights from God to Life, Liberty and Property. They continue this effort for no other reason but to garner power for themselves by the enslavement of a free people in a Welfare Socialist State.

God, Give Us Men!
Josiah Gilbert Holland

God, give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honour; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking!
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds,
Their large professions and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps,
Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps!

One can only hope and pray that the words of William Culllen Bryant shall come to pass, “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again, the eternal years of God are hers; but error, wounded, writhes with pain, and dies among his worshipers.

May God Bless and Save the United States of America!
Our Constitutional Republic