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Buy 25% of your gifts Made in America and put over a million Americans back to work!


Friday, December 16, 2016

You can make a tremendous change in millions of lives, by simply purchasing 25% of your gifts this year from companies selling American made goods. According to leading economists, over one million jobs in America would be created if just 25% of the money spent by Americans this year on gifts were spent on American ...

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Patriotic movies to watch this summer!


Thursday, July 21, 2016

Flag flying against a blue sky with fluffy clouds.Backyard BBQs, s'mores, fireworks and beach days — these are just a few of the ways Americans like to enjoy the long summer season each year. Of course, these activities tend to be enjoyable only when the outdoor conditions are favorable, like when the sky is clear during the day, and ...

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The Gettysburg Address


Wednesday, April 13, 2016

by Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863 at the Gettysburg Battlefield Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived ...

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The Declaration of Independence


Wednesday, April 13, 2016

  United States Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal ...

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The Bill of Rights


Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Amendment II A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security ...

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The Story Of The Star Spangled Banner


Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Francis Scott Key was a respected young lawyer living in Georgetown just west of where the modern day Key Bridge crosses the Potomac River (the house was torn down after years of neglect in 1947). He made his home there from 1804 to around 1833 with his wife Mary and their six sons and five ...

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“Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death”


Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Patrick Henry March 23, 1775 PRESIDENT: It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth -- and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous ...

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The Travis Letter


Monday, April 11, 2016

Commandancy of the The Alamo Bejar, Feby. 24th. 1836 To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World— Fellow Citizens & compatriots— I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna — I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man — The enemy ...

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