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He was a Soldier Once... And Young

Let Us Cross Over the River

The following article was reportedly published by The New York Times on July 30, 1906:

Erected in Negro Church by Contributions from Negroes.

ROANOKE, Va., July 29 -- A memorial window of Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson was unveiled in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church today.  The congregation is composed of negroes.  The window was erected by the pastor, the Rev. L. L. Downing, the money for its purchase coming wholly from negroes.

The Exercises were largely attended by both races, the Confederate camps of Roanoke and Salem and the chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy.  There were addresses by white citizens of Roanoke.

Downing's father and mother were members of a Sunday school class of negro slaves taught by Jackson at Lexington before the war, and to-day's exercises marked the realization of an ambition Downing has had since boyhood, to pay fitting tribute to the Confederate commander.

The picture presented on the window is that of an army camping on the banks of a stream, the inscription underneath being Jackson's last words: "Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees."

Nothing to Hide?

Planned Parenthood, Headquarters Washington, D.C. (2008)¹

Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services Dr. Deborah Nucatola recently ignited “pro-life” firestorm. An expose’ video released 3 days ago chronicles Nucatola nonchalantly waving her fork in the air and sipping wine, as she brazenly and graphically describes how her organization covertly and proactively harvests and markets the organs of the babies they abort. Not exactly dinner fare! There was once was a time when Planned Parenthood “allegedly” had nothing to hide:



 In 2004, Planned Parenthood initiated a ploy to overcome the blood-splattered guilt syndrome so common in Post-Abortive Woman. According to Planned Parenthood, rather than being uncomfortable or regretful with their pro-choice choice, women should be celebrating openly and unapologetically: there is nothing to hide. After all, as one abortion provider commented abortion is as American as apple pie. So what purgative did Planned Parenthood contrive to consummate the catharsis? T-shirts emblazoned with the verbiage, "I Had an Abortion."

Interesting, have never seen one. Need not wonder why: is it possible to destroy the pure and innocent image of oneself implanted within without guilt. Moreover, is it possible to destroy the pure and innocent image God implanted within, an image of Himself, without guilt! "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (cf. Genesis 1:26-27).


¹"Planned Parenthood Federation of America headquarters Washington DC" by AgnosticPreachersKid - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Planned_Parenthood_Federation_of_America_headquarters_Washington_DC.JPG#/media/File:Planned_Parenthood_Federation_of_America_headquarters_Washington_DC.JPG

How can I be saved?

The Center of the World

Martin Behaims Erdapfel¹

Obama's first phone call to a foreign leader only hours after taking office was to PLO Chairman Abbas to communicate his commitment to the Arab-Israeli “peace” process. His second call was to Israeli PM Olmert. Our President's overriding priority has never vacillated, it has always been the “center of the world” i.e., that tiny little nation approximately the size of New Jersey that is always in news.

Today as shouts of “Death to Israel” still echoed in the streets of Iran, nuclear talks in Vienna concluded with Iran receiving concessions beyond their wildest dreams as documented by photos of the normally reserved diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran) later literally dancing for joy on his balcony.

Secretary John Kerry concluded with a eulogy to the President "who had the courage to launch this process, believe in it, support it, encourage it, when many thought the objective was impossible, and who led the way from the start to the finish." A “process” that has now given Iran unlimited resources to facilitate the Arab-Israeli “peace” process i.e., by "annihilating" one or perhaps both parties in the process.

"For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.... Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.... No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. (cf. Isaiah 54:5-17).

¹© Alexander Franke (Ossiostborn) (via Wikimedia-Commons), 31 March 2006/ Martin Behaims Erdapfel/ This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany license.

The Occupation

The Battle of Kirksville,

E.M. Violette’s History of Adair County.¹

As the covert Federal occupational forces of Jade Helm descend on “hostile” Texas, there is trepidation, and justifiably so. This is not a unique Federal incursion nor will it be the last:

Cumberland Academy with its towering steeple once stood within the confines of Memorial Park. In earlier days, other than the court house, it was the city’s only place of worship. Here, the godly Joseph Baldwin first conducted his Normal School, and the less than godly Union Colonel John McNeil situated his artillery on that commandeered mount, savaging a largely untrained and unarmed contingent of the Confederacy during the so called Battle of Kirksville.

One of my father’s early memories was of an honor guard firing a volley in remembrance of Twenty-Six Confederate soldiers killed in battle. And of he and his brother, oblivious to the significance gleefully running to pick up shell casings around the mass grave and its monument. Pearl Harbor and Buna all too soon altered that innocence.

In recent years, a second monument appeared revealing a truth long latent in that trench. The day after the battle, by order of Colonel John McNeil, fifteen captives were tried, convicted, and shot where the old Wabash Depot once stood. And on the third day, Colonel Frisby McCullough was court-martialed on contrived charges, found guilty, sentenced to be shot, and with the apparent consent of McNeil, “paraded up and down the streets of Kirksville amid the jeers and shouts of joy of the Federals.” However, at his request as an officer, he was given one concession, to conduct his own execution: “What I have done, I have done as a principle of right. Aim at the heart. Fire!” However, his executioners failed to comply. And as a second volley was being prepared, he continued from the ground: “May God forgive you this barbarous murder.”

"And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.... But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep" (Act 6:15-7:60).

To All Americans in the World

William Barret Travis Lt. Col. comdt.

There was a day when General Sam Houston "ordered" that the Alamo Mission be set to the torch. Yet the remnant of the “First Company of Texas Volunteers” under an azure blue flag emblazoned with the words “God and Liberty” would not "STAND DOWN." In the days that followed 26-year-old Lt. Col. William Barret Travis with a nondescript contingency of 20 Army Regulars, cast his lot with those preferring to "die in these ditches than give up to the enemy."


Commandancy of the Alamo Bejar, Feby. 24, 1836

To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World ... I am besieged, by a thousand.... The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword.... I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid.... If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country − Victory or Death.

William Barret TravisLt. Col. comdt.
P.S. The Lord is on our side....

On March 3, 1836 in his final communiqué, Travis writes "... if my countrymen do not rally to my relief, I am determined to perish in the defense of this place, and my bones shall reproach my country for her neglect.... All the citizens of this place that have not joined us are with the enemy fighting against us. Let the government declare them public enemies...."

The words and the acts of the righteous have a legacy. At dawn on the first of March, responding to Travis' plea, Lt. George C. Kimble with his "Immortal 32" fought their way into the beleaguered mission, never to leave. Unbeknown to the besieged defenders, that night in Washington-on-the-Brazos, delegates were frantically preparing the final draft of The Texas Declaration of Independence. The following day declared, "Here a Nation was born." Four days later at dawn, the Alamo's defenders ratified it with their blood.

Within four fortnights, the Texan militia came to the aid of their "fallen" brethren charging Santa Anna's far superior forces, to the rallying cry "Remember the Alamo!" The slaughter was "frightful to behold", an overwhelming defeat for the merciless Santa Anna who was later found cowering among the multitude of prisoners. That evening peace had come to the commonwealth of Texas.

What is the legacy of America? As coming days threaten her "Death," will we "STAND DOWN" or shout a rallying cry? Taking no prisoners of those who make "lies" their refuge, and by "silence" Truth a prisoner? Honor demands but one choice! " − Victory or Death."

Ichabod