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Rules of the Beast I
A sort of start at a poetic retelling of the classic Dracula tale: Rules of the Beast I by Michael Romani As the approach is made to castle There is fear amongst its vassals A crucifix is given in protection … Continue reading
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For Those Beneath
Today is National Wreaths Across America Day, December 21, 2019… please remember in your thoughts and prayers, those who gave all that we might live free. Thank you! For Those Beneath by Michael Romani Sharing a bottle of mental … Continue reading
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Tagged Atone, Battle, Belief, Beneath, Borne, Brothers, Ceremony, Christmas, Comemoration, Crown, Death, Dismiss, Dream, Driven, Eternal Life, Evergreen, Fallen, Feeble, Figurative, Finish, Flower, Free, Friend, Garland, Gesture, Give, Glory, Greater, Halcyon, Headstone, Heroes, Honor, Hope, Hour, Left, Lives, Lost, Memory, National Wreaths Across America Day, Night, No Greater Love, Peace, Photograph, Pine, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Pure, Rage, Reveille, Ring, Row, Salute, Share, Shot, Silent, Sisters, Sol Invctus, Solstice, Story, Strength, Tear, Thoughts and Prayers, Trilithon, Victory, Whiskey, Wind, Wreath, Yalda
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Like Sand Becomes A Pearl
On December 7, 1941, the then Japanese Empire attacked America killing some 2,400 people and bringing the US into World War II. Today is remembered in the US as National Pearl Harbor Day of Remembrance. Like Sand Becomes A … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Attack, Avoid, Beauty, Begun, Brave, Brilliant, Circumvent, December 7 1941, End, Events, Eye, Fight, Forge, Friends, Gallantry, Give, God, Hate, Infamy, Inspiration, Irritation, Japan, Legacy, Lesson, Light, Lives, Memory, Nations, Oyster, Pearl, Pearl Harbor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Recognize, Remember, Remembrance, Right, Sand, Soul, Tragedy, Tragic, Transform, Two, War, Wise, Won, World, Yamamoto
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First Principles: We Claim the Rights Essential To Happiness Not From Government But From God
” Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness… We claim them from a higher source – from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and … Continue reading
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Tagged Born, Earth, Exist, First Principles, Happiness, Higher Source, Human Power, John Dickinson, King of King, Kings, Laws of Our Nature, Lives, Lord of All, Parliament, Providence, Rights, Taken
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First Principles: There Must Never Be A Separation of Religious Values From the Lives of Public Servants
“We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Blance, First Principles, Free Men, God, Heart, Lives, Lyndon B Johnson, Power, Public Servants, Religious Values, Remember, Separation of Church and State, Serve, Tyrants
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First Principles: Liberty Is One of the Most Precious Gifts Which Heaven Bestows On Mankind
“Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk … Continue reading
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Tagged Captivity, Compare, Conceal, Earth, Evil, First Principles, Gift, Heaven, Honor, Liberty, Lives, Mankind, Miguel de Cervantes, Precious, Risk, Sea
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Thought For the Day: More Powerful Than American Arms Is the Strength of American Hearts
“More powerful than the strength of American arms was the strength of American hearts.” – Donald Trump, commemorating D-Day Also, noteworthy in his remarks: “We are gathered here on Freedom’s Altar. On these shores, on these bluffs, on this day … Continue reading
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Tagged American Arms, American Hearts, Bluffs, Brothers, Civilization, Country, Cross, D-Day, Donald Trump, Freedom's Altar, Liberty, Lives, Normandy, Powerful, Sacrifice, Shores, Star of David, Strength, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Our Obligation To America Ends Only With Our Lives
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” – John Adams (1808)
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Tagged America, Cease, First Principles, John Adams, Lives, Obligation, Our
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First Principles: Every Effort Should Be Made To Encourage and Exalt the Children To Become Their Best Potential
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Activity, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, First Principles, Grovel, Industry, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Mind
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