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Abraham Lincoln

11/21/2020

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Abraham Lincoln
 
Remember he was poor and country-bred;
     His face was lined; he walked with awkward gait.
Smart people laughed at him sometimes and said,
      “How can so very plain a man be great?”
 
Remember he was humble, used to toil.
     Strong arms he had to build a shack, a fence,
Long legs to tramp the woods, to plow the soil,
     A head chuck full of backwoods common sense.
 
Remember all he ever had he earned.
     He walked in time through stately White House doors;
But all he knew of men and life he learned
     In little backwoods cabins, country stores.
 
Remember that his eyes could light with fun;
     That wisdom, courage, set his name apart;
But when the rest is duly said and done,
     Remember that men loved him for his heart.
 
by Mildred Meigs
 
Mildred Meigs was born as Mildred Plew in 1892 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. Her first husband was Carl Plummer Merryman, who was born on 18 January 1893 in Bangor, Maine. Her second husband was Clifford Hutchinson Meigs. Her works may appear with her last name as either Merryman or Meigs. She was a poet and a writer. Her poems and stories were printed in “Child Life” magazine and in her published books. She is known for her book “Moon Song” (1923). Mildred Meigs passed on at 51 years of age on 27 February 1944 in Valparaiso, Florida, United States of America.
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A Lesson from History

11/20/2020

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​A Lesson from History
 
Everything’s easy after it’s done;
     Every battle’s a ‘cinch’ that’s won;
Every problem is clear that’s solved -
     The earth was round when it ‘revolved!’
But Washington stood amid grave doubt
     With enemy forces camped about;
He could not know how he would fare
     Till ‘after’ he’d crossed the Delaware.
 
Though the river was full of ice
     He did not think about it twice,
But started across in the dead of night,
     The enemy waiting to open the fight.
Likely feeling pretty blue,
     Being human, same as you,
But he was brave amid despair,
     And Washington crossed the Delaware!
 
So when you’re with trouble beset,
     And your spirits are soaking wet,
When all the sky with clouds is black,
     Don’t lie down upon your back
And look at ‘them.’ Just do the thing;
     Though you are choked, still try to sing.
If times are dark, believe them fair,
     And you will cross the Delaware!
 
by Joseph Morris
 
One of three of George Washington’s crossings of the Delaware River occurred on the night of 25 and 26 December 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. Once on the other side, he and his troops undertook a daring surprise attack and captured nearly 1,000 Hessians, or German soldiers hired by the British as mercenaries, along with their military supplies.


Image shown:“Washington Crossing the Delaware” (1851) by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 - 1868) 
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The Man in the Arena

11/19/2020

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The Man in the Arena
 
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
 
by Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt: excerpt from the speech “Citizenship in a Republic” (23 April 1910) at the Sorbonne in Paris, France
 
Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, Junior was born on 27 October 1858 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a soldier, a writer, and the twenty-sixth President of the United States of America (1901 - 1909). Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, Junior passed on at 60 years of age on 6 January 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York, United States of America.
 

Image shown: Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, Junior (1885)
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The Flag That Betsy Made

11/18/2020

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The Flag That Betsy Made
 
There are many hallowed symbols
     That enshrine the deeds of men.
Some are trite and some are sacred.
     Some are soon forgotten when
Passing time erodes their meaning,
     Or the years their glory fade.
Passing years but add new glory
     To the flag that Betsy made.
 
’Twas a time when men of valor
     Took their stand for liberty.
Fought and died to build a nation,
     Sacrificed to make men free.
And they asked all men to muster;
     Men of courage - unafraid.
So they came from far to rally
     ’Round the flag that Betsy made.
 
Through the years new stars have flourished
     On that field of azure blue.
Now new millions hoist the banner,
     Marching toward horizons new.
Yet unborn hordes will muster ’round her.
     ’Til tyranny has been allayed.
For no flag emblazons freedom
     Like the flag that Betsy made.
 
by Dwayne W. Laws: as published in Monta Henrichs Crane and Betty Wallace Scott, compilers: “Along the Way” (1977), ‘Book III - The Influence of Faces - Heroes,’ page 167

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Through a Child’s Eyes

11/17/2020

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Through a Child’s Eyes
 
We took my four-year-old nephew through Lincoln’s home in Springfield, Illinois, at an hour when we happened to be the only visitors. A very lovely lady guided us through, pointing out things she felt might especially interest Lanny. As we left, he looked up at his mother and said, “Mommy, wasn’t Mrs. Lincoln nice?”
 
by Mrs. Flossie Pulford: as published in “Sunshine: A Soulful Magazine” (November 1975), Volume 52, Number 11, page 30
 

Mildred Flossie Pulford was born on 19 December 1889 in Kingsville, Ontario, Canada. She was married at 22 years of age on 20 December 1911 in Windsor, Sandwich South Township, Essex County, Ontario, Canada, to William John Donaghy. Mildred Flossie Pulford passed on at 81 years of age on 3 July 1971.
 
Image shown: Abraham Lincoln’s home in Springfield, Illinois, United States of America.
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The Liberty Bell

11/16/2020

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​The Story of the Liberty Bell
 
The State House of the Colony of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia needed a bell. Isaac Norris was made chairman of a committee to procure one, and in 1751, he ordered a large one from a famous London maker. To be emblazoned in bronze round the bell’s crown, he chose a verse from the twenty-fifth chapter of Leviticus: Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. At first this beautiful example of the bell-maker’s art was to be called the Providence Bell.
 
After considerable time, it was delivered and duly hung in the steeple of the State House. On the first stroke of its clapper, the mighty bell cracked. It was taken down and sent to an American bell-maker who re-melted it and twice made it over before the Pennsylvanians were happy with the bell’s tone. Re-hung in the steeple, it was hanging there in 1776 when the Continental Congress was considering Lee’s Resolution: Resolved that the United Colonies are and ought to be free and independent states.
 
Not until the 1830’s was it re-named the Liberty Bell. In 1839, Friends of Freedom distributed at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair in Boston, a pamphlet entitled “The Liberty Bell” which carried a picture of the bell. They used the name Liberty in connection with the freedom of the slaves, and not the independence of the Colonies. George Lippard, a journalist, wrote a newspaper series entitled “Legends of the Revolution” and furthered the myth of the origin of the name, making the former Providence Bell immortal as the Liberty Bell. Reproduced on coins, stamps, and government bonds, it has become a cherished emblem of our Country.
 
by Author Unknown
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