patriotism - Forum - Command Center2024-03-29T08:33:57Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/feed/tag/patriotismREADING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN MAKING A POSITIVE IMPACT ON CHILDRENhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/reading-to-public-school-children-making-a-positive-impact-on-chi2023-12-15T19:26:47.000Z2023-12-15T19:26:47.000ZBob Russellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobRussell<div><p><strong>READING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN</strong></p><p><strong>MAKING A POSITIVE IMPACT ON CHILDREN</strong></p><p><strong>There has been a great deal of controversy about "drag queens" reading to elementary school students in very liberal jurisdictions, reading books that promote their perverted lifestyle. For a bit of good news, I have spent the last 6 years going to a public school that I will not name to read to first and second grade students. I attend church of Friday nights with a first grade teacher at this school and she first invited me to come read to her class around Veterans Day 6 years ago. It soon expanded to her also inviting me to read Dr. Seus books during the week of his birthday which was March 2. In the last couple of years the reading has expanded to other classes and this year included several second grade classes. I am an Army veteran and read about various military aspects, including the training, housing, and other aspects.</strong></p><p><strong>The kids are always thrilled to see ,me and show a great deal of respect and appreciation toward me. I served in Special Forces from 1968 to 1971 then spent one year as a reservist. The reception from the students, teachers, and faculty in general has been very good and I consider it both an honor and a privilege to be able to interact with the 5 and 6 year old kids. We regularly hear horror tales of children being groomed into perverted lifestyles, taught to hate each other based on skin color, and taught to hate America. I wanted to get this out so people will know that there are children being exposed to positive, patriotic aspects of American life. America is the greatest nation to ever exist and has the most compassionate and generous population existing on the face of the earth. When there is a disaster anywhere in the world it is American citizens that donate billions of their dollars and hundreds of hours of their time and labor to help those affected.</strong></p><p><strong>I remember when Hurricane Ian, I think it was, devastated the Gulf Coast, killing about 1300 people that moslems around the world celebrated and said "allah" was punishing the nation. A mere few weeks later a massive earthquake hit Pakistan killing an estimated 300,000 people. Americans, instead of gloating and celebrating, prayed for those affected and sent lots of money to refief organizations to help. Those who were able even traveled to Pakistan to hewlp in rescue and recovery operations. The difference in reactions could not be more clear. </strong></p><p><strong>I remember after a hurricane and an earthquake back to back that devastated Haiti a few years ago, Many American citizens jumped at the opportunity to donate money to help those devastated by natural disasters. bill and hillary clinton collected $500 million for relief aid but none of the money helped anyone but the clintons. Smart Americans donated to groups like Samaratan's purse, the organization started by Billy Graham and now led by his son, Franklin. ALL of that money went to help Haitians, providing shelter, food, water, and helping rebuild homes. Liberals hate and deride Christians but it is we who help others in need. The liberal left will collect money on the pretense of helping but use that money for their own personal benefit, as the clintons have done.</strong></p><p><strong>I know that one day these things will be judged by Almighty God who will reward those doing good and punish those doing wrong. Until then we can only do our best to do all we can to make America the best it can be and shine light on a dark world that desperately needs us to spread morality and humanity to others. It is too bad that the dark side has so much control over our nation, the mainstream media being the mouthpiece of evil, hollywood and most corporate board rooms being onboard with evil, and the federal and many state governments being controlled by people who hate America and the goodness for which it has always stood. The fact that I am welcome to share my patriotism and dedication to the American Dream is a tribute to school administrators, teachers, staff, and students in rural America, people who appreciate the values that have made America the greatest nation ever established in world history.</strong></p><p><strong>I submit this in the name of the Most Holy Trinity, in faith, with the responsibility given to me by Almighty God to honor His work and not let it die from neglect.</strong></p><p><strong>Bob Russell</strong></p><p><strong>Claremore, Oklahoma</strong></p><p><strong>December 15, 2023</strong></p></div>To Be Great Again... America Must Honor Greatness Again... America must honor God Again.https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/to-be-great-again-america-must-honor-greatness-again-we-must-hono2021-01-21T03:38:11.000Z2021-01-21T03:38:11.000ZRonald A. Nelson COL, USA, Retiredhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/RonaldANelsonColUSARet<div><p><strong>Our Political Party's are the bellwether of a much greater problem...</strong> Our nation and its political Parties have rejected God and the fundamentals for a blessed life. Both Political Parties have engaged in the slaughter of the unborn, the glorification of decadent lifestyles, the abandonment of our faith in Christ, they now embrace the gods of this world... Mammon and Belial. Professing to know God they deny Him with their actions, murdering the soul in the name of bipartisanship, they have poisoned an entire generation with their rebellion. </p><p><strong>Until America returns to the fundamentals of Christ...</strong> the Word of God made flesh, she will continue to be blown about in a tempest sea, by the winds of adversity. Our Ship of State is breaking-up on the rocks of rebellion. We are adrift without a helm, a crew without their GOD. America has abandoned God. She must repent and return to her Creator, or suffer the devastation of a People lost in a world of sin.</p><p><strong>Our Nation's problems can not be solved by a New Party, Elections, or Court order...</strong> no bipartisan effort or man-made plan can deliver us from our sins. America, as a Nation, must humble itself, and pray, and seek God's face, turn from its wicked ways; then God will hear from heaven, and He will forgive our Nation's sin and will heal our land.</p><p><strong>Our Children suffer at the hand of rebellion...</strong> they perish for the lack of knowledge and suffer deprivation for a lack of God-given vision. They lack spiritual discernment. Our hope for a better future must focus upon reviving our Christian heritage; upon, our relationship as a people and a Nation with our Creator. If our People want to see America MADE GREAT AGAIN, they must honor Greatness Again ... they must honor God again!</p></div>REVIVAL NEEDED IN AMERICAhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/revival-needed-in-america2020-09-16T22:05:00.000Z2020-09-16T22:05:00.000ZBob Russellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobRussell<div><p><strong>REVIVAL NEEDED IN AMERICA</strong></p><p><strong>TURN TO GOD AS OUR FOUNDERS DID</strong></p><p><strong>The answer to the problems our nation faces can be solved by turning our focus and our hearts back to the Master who created this masterpiece of liberty and prosperity, Almighty God, the Creator of the universe and everything in it. Right now our nation is beset by divisiveness, hatred, and violence. The marxists, financed by Nazi war criminal george soros and encouraged and enabled by the democrat party and their Goebbels/Pravda arm called the media, are running rampant because the police are hamstrung by democrat party politicians intent on overthrowing President Trump and the Constitutional Republic that is the United States of America and establishing in its place a global dictatorship headed by soros and his "god", satan. Sadly, many people, including some calling themselves Christians, are falling prey to the propaganda machine, believing that conservatives, especially Caucasian conservatives, are at fault. The only "systemic racism" is within the democrat party and the marxist movement. Most of the blm and antifa crowd are white radicals trained and paid by soros financed organizations to destroy as much property as possible and create as much havoc as possible.</strong></p><p><strong>If those claiming to care about black lives really cared so much they would be protesting against abortion clinics that murder more than 350,000 black babies every year and democrat run cities and states that oversee the murder of hundreds of black citizens, including many children, at the hands of black gangs. Virtually all of the blacks killed by police are career criminals who are caught in the act of committing a crime or resisting arrest when being taken into custody for outstanding warrants for past crimes. Isn't it telling that when the media makes a big deal of black lives lost that none of these facts are divulged? The democrat party is responsible for the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws, and segregation but project their own guilt onto innocent people in order to deflect the blame onto their enemies, enemies of totalitarianism.</strong></p><p><strong>It was southern democrats that formed the KKK and instituted the segregation actions against blacks, and white republicans that abolished slavery, passed the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. It is the same liberal democrats that have fought so hard to remove any reference to God from the public forum and to destroy the black family through welfare. Every time Christian organizations try to help poor blacks liberal democrats step in and do all they can to crush any semblance of Christian charity. Liberal democrats want blacks dependent on them rather than looking to Almighty God for help as Christian organizations offer. Black pastors who speak out for Godly responses to the woes of black families they are immediately denounced by black politicians and the plantation overseers like al sharpton and jesse jackson. These two charlatans have gotten rich being plantation overseers for the democrats.</strong></p><p><strong>The divisiveness created by the false narrative by democrats and the media can only be overcome by taking the matter to God and depend on Him to get the truth known. Repentance and prayer are the keys, as told to us in 2 Chronicles 7:14. We the People of faith don't have the secular resources necessary to get the truth out so our best option is to use the greatest asset at our hand, the hand of Almighty God. We are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, they are only the agents of principalities and power in the spirit realm. Liberals are under the influence of the most evil power in the universe, satan himself, and can only be overcome by the One who has already defeated him, Jesus Christ. Hell rejoiced when Jesus died on the Cross because satan thought he had won but Jesus dying on the cross was the plan from the beginning, dying and then being resurrected for us.</strong></p><p><strong>If people of faith will turn to Jesus the left will be soundly defeated because victory will only come when we humble ourselves and turn to the only answer there is to defeat evil. Democrats have clearly shown their animosity towards God, booing Him at their 2012 nominating convention and omitting the words "under God" when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance this time. I am surprised the democrats even recited the pledge at all considering how much they hate what it represents. Faith and patriotism are attributes we don't see from the left. Their desire for a satan based global dictatorship has been more than plainly demonstrated by democrats and their propagandists in the media. Sadly, many young people, living under a secular humanist system that denies the existence of God and promotes the idea that every person gets to decide for themselves what is right or wrong, that there is no moral absolute as described in the Holy Bible, have grown up being told that anything they do is okay, that no one has the right to tell them what is or isn't acceptable behavior. The education system in the nation has devolved into a communist indoctrination system designed to subvert the very foundation of the Constitution and the founding of this nation.</strong></p><p><strong>I daily pray that people will see the need as I do to get back to what made America great, faith, integrity, and a willingness to work to achieve one's economic desires. Today too many people, especially teens and young adults, expect to be handed prosperity on a silver platter where my generation and the one following mine knew we had to work if we wanted to do well in life, there wasn't anyone giving us everything we demanded without anything from us. Te Holy Bible says, "he who will not work should not eat", meaning we are expected to earn what we want not just sit back and have it handed to us because we want it.</strong></p><p><strong>I submit this in the name of the Most Holy Trinity, the Father, Son Jesus, and the Holy Ghost, in faith, with the responsibility given to me by Almighty God to honor His work and not let it die from neglect.</strong></p><p><strong>Bob Russell</strong></p><p><strong>Claremore, Oklahoma</strong></p><p><strong>September 2, 2020</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p></div>Where Have All The Patriots Gone... long time passinghttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/where-have-all-the-patriots-gone-long-time-passing2020-05-13T16:01:47.000Z2020-05-13T16:01:47.000ZRonald A. Nelson COL, USA, Retiredhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/RonaldANelsonColUSARet<div><p><strong>Where have all the patriots gone, long time passing...</strong> long, long ago. Who shall charge the furry of liberty's furnace... Where have gone the stewards of liberty, long, long ago... who once secured our land, from the tyrant's hand?...</p><p><strong>Where have gone the giants of Valley Forge and Bunker Hill...</strong> long, long ago? Too, graveyards every one? Where live those who stood by the rude bridge at Concord.... whose, flags unfurled, did in the April breeze, declare their cause... Where are the men who once stood before the tyrant, embattled farmers, patriots true... a line of Blue, against the steel of tyranny's blade... Whose great resolve did fire the shot, heard round the world.. .Where have all these Patriots gone... Gone to graveyards every one.</p><p><strong>Are there any to raise high their standards..</strong>. ripe with fury? Too, stand at Concord's bridge once more, shoulder to shoulder, against the beat of the tyrant's drums... Who, with cannons charged, and the tyrant's blade, wet with blood, fear not tyranny's hand? Where are the patriots who faint not from the task at hand, but with resolve will evict the tyrant from the land and ring liberty's bell ... once again. Let us now refresh the call to Patriots true, one and all, and with the blood of tyrants, refresh the Tree of Liberty anew.</p><p><strong> Where have all the patriots gone...</strong> gone to Concord every one? Where will you go, long time passing?</p></div>