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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Pedigree
In the name of my heritage, I have been to hell and back In all ways fighting for the light and never fading black In the name of my jaded pedigree, golden cause of legacy I often cite my family’s … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Daly Prompt, Fading Black, Family, Hell and Back, Heritage, History, Legacy, Pedigree, Wordpress
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Lessons In Living History
Lessons In Living History by Michael Romani The hardest thing to comprehend Is why so many fail to understand That lessons in history tend to repeat Maybe because the lessons are incomplete Like angel wings openly spread History is more … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Daughter, Family, Heritage, History, Lessons, Living, Living Museum, Love, Magical, Moments, Mystery, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revelation
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Assay
Listen up, the people got something they want to say Maybe it’s time that we take a moment and assay All the bad that is happening in the world today Maybe it’s time that we take our turn another way … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Uncategorized
Tagged Assay, Cherish, Country, Daily Prompt, Family, God, Heritage, Hermitage, Legacy, Measure, People, Pleasures, Repent, Say, Spirituality, Travesty, Treasure, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Mankind Is More Often Conquered By Fear and Ignorance Than War
“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Two Years Before the Mast, Ch XXI – Dana
We have previously discussed Dana’s life as well as Two Years Before the Mast fairly thoroughly. Another look at Dana’s actual voyage as well as other maritime heritage information can be found here: http://www.maritimeheritage.org/ You may read Chapter XXI of … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvard Classics, Heritage, Justice, Maritime, Richard H Dana Jr, Sailor, Two Years Before the Mast
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My Daughters’ American We
My Daughters’ American We by Michael Romani Looking on the America of today With all of its conflicts in the way It reminds me of post Revolution life Ablaze with near anarchy and civil strife We of today should be … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged America, American We, Culture, Daughters, Family, Father, Future, Generaion, Heritage, Liberty, Noble, Overcome, Patriotism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Service, Troubles, Truth, Veneration
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Exceptional
Thinking in terms of the national There are few things as exceptional Than the gifts of freedom and liberty Paid for at the foot of that given tree Where mankind pines for freedom Safe from the tyrannical kingdoms And where … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Daily Prompt, Diligence, Exceptional, Freedom, Heritage, Liberty, Liberty Bell, Liberty Tree, National, Republic, Rule of Law, Vigilance, Wordpress
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First Principles: America’s Youth Must Always Remember Its Noble Inheritance
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Fidelity, First Principles, Heritage, Improved, Inheritance, Joseph Story, Noble, Youth
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Freedom 1776 – 2017
Freedom 1776-2017 by Michael Romani In thinking on America’s revolution In the quest for sweet freedom’s contribution Each man willing to die to be free I confess puzzlement at this mystery That a people who sought so hard for liberty … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Second Life
Tagged Calamity, Chattel, Christian, Confession, Freedom, Gettysburg, Heritage, Independence, Liberty, Mother Eve, Poem, Poetry, Proclamation, Reconciled, Revolution, Sacred, Slavery
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First Principles: Good and Wise Government Is Dependent On Family
“[T]hat important and respectable, though small and sometimes neglected establishment, which is denominated a family…[The family is] the principle of the community; it is that seminary, on which the commonwealth, for its manners as well as its numbers, must ultimately … Continue reading
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Tagged Community, Family, First Principles, Founding Fathers, Government, Heritage, James Wilson, manners, Natural Rights, US Supreme Court
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