"WE THE VETERANS"

WHEN, WHERE AND WHY DID THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGIN AND END?  WHAT CAUSES WERE IN PLAY THAT LED UP TO THAT DATE? DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS?  IF YOU ANSWER  YES, THEN CONGRATULATIONS.  YOU ARE IN THE 5 PERCENTILE OF WE THE PEOPLE THAT KNOW MUCH OF ANYTHING AT ALL OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND HER VETERANS.  TODAY I WANT TO TAKE YOU TO SOME OF THOSE PLACES AND PERHAPS THEN YOU WILL SEE WHY I REFER TO ALL OF US AS "WE THE PEOPLE", BUT TO A SELECT GROUP THAT WENT BEYOND, RISKED LIFE AND LIMB, AND PUT THEIR VERY EXISTENCE ON THE LINE FOR THIS GREAT NATION.  THEY ARE KNOWN TODAY AS OUR NATIONS VETERANS AND I REFER TO THEM NOW AS "WE THE VETERANS." I COULD NOT BEGIN TO ENTAIL WARS AND DETAILS IN A BLOG, SO IT IS UP TO YOU THE READER TO TAKE YOURSELF THERE. I WILL TELL YOU OF "WE THE VETERANS"

EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGAN BACK IN THE 1730'S AND 40'S.  CHURCHES OTHER THAN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WERE SPRINGING UP AND MOTHER ENGLAND DID NOT LIKE THAT.  ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAY A SQUAD OF BRITISH TROOPS WOULD SHOW UP AT A CHURCH, ROUST OUT THE CONGREGATION, BURN THE CHURCH DOWN AND RAPE THE YOUNG WOMEN.  SECRET BRIGADES WERE FORMED IN THE CHURCHES,KNOWN AS THE BLACK ROBE BRIGADE WHICH BECAME THE FIRST VETERANS, KNOWN AS THE MINUTEMEN.  PASTOR PETER MUHLENBERG, ON THE DAY THE FIRST SHOTS WERE FIRED AT CONCORD, RIPPED OFF HIS BLACK ROBE TO REVEAL AN OFFICERS UNIFORM OF THE FIRST CONTINENTAL ARMY.  THUS LED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON, CAME THE BATTLES OF LEXINGTON, CONCORD, AND THE WINTER OF VALLEY FORGE.  VIRTUALLY OVER HALF OF THE COLONISTS DID NOT WANT THE WAR AND WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO REMAIN LOYAL TO THE QUEEN.  IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF WHAT ALWAYS OCCURS WHEN A SMALL GROUP DOES THE TASK OF MANY.  THIS MIGHTY NATION THAT ROSE UP OUT OF THE ASHES OF CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS OWES IT'S ROOTS AND VERY BEGINNINGS TO THE VETERANS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1774-1783.  THE NORTHWEST INDIAN WARS LASTED TEN YEARS FROM 1785 TO 1795, FOUGHT BY "WE THE VETERANS" OF THE CANADIAN MILITIA.  THE FRANCO-AMERICAN WAR LASTED FROM 1798 TO 1800.  THOMAS JEFFERSON COMMISSIONED 12 WAR SHIPS AND 5000 MARINES IN THE BARBARY COAST WAR FROM 1801 TO 1805.  A MUSLIM/CHRISTIAN WAR MUCH AKIN TO THE TERRORIST WARS WE SEE TODAY, "WE THE VETERANS", ( MOSTLY MARINES WITH SOME NAVAL PERSONELL ) SET FREE THOUSANDS OF US SAILORS IMPRISONED FOR BEING CHRISTIANS.  "WE THE VETERANS" ALSO DEALT A GREAT BLOW TO THE MUSLIM SLAVE TRADE, FREEING THOUSANDS OF SLAVES AND CONCURRING WITH THE BRITISH TO MAKE SLAVE RUNNING ILLEGAL.  

KNOWN AS OUR "SECOND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE,  OR THE WAR OF 1812, IT WAS FOUGHT MOSTLY ACROSS THE CANADIAN BORDERS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER AND WATERWAYS OF THE GREAT LAKES AND ATLANTIC OCEAN. IT EVEN COMPRISED AN ATTACK FROM THE BRITISH ON NEW ORLEANS, WHERE "WE THE VETERANS" EULOGIZED IN JOHNNY HORTON'S SONG, "THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS."  ANDREW JACKSON AND WITH HELP OF CARIBBEAN PIRATE JEAN LAFITTE DEFEATED THE BRITISH.  AGAIN IT WAS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT SAW OUR WHITE HOUSE BURNED TO THE GROUND BY AN OVERWHELMING BRITISH FORCE SEEKING TO ONCE AGAIN MAKE US ROYAL SUBJECTS OF THE KING. AGAIN IT WAS "WE THE VETERAN" THAT KEPT AMERICA FREE AND OLD GLORY FLYING. 

IN 1815, ONCE AGAIN THE MUSLIM FORCES OF THE BARBARY COAST REARED IT'S UGLY HEAD, AND ONCE AGAIN "WE THE VETERANS" ANSWERED THE CALL.  FROM THERE "WE THE VETERANS" DID NOT BACK DOWN FROM FREEDOM'S CALL FIGHTING A MULTITUDE OF BATTLES AND WARS IN  A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST BELOW:

Second Barbary War or Algerian War	Algiers	1815	American victory
First Seminole War

West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations	Caribbean Pirates	1817-1825

West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations	Caribbean Pirates	1817-1825	United States victory
African Anti-Slavery Operations	African Slave Traders	1819 - 1861	Atlantic slave trade suppressed by 1865
Callao Affair	Spain	November 5–6, 1820	Spanish vow to punish those responsible for attacks on American shipping.
Arikara War	Arikara	1823	The Arikara eventually settled with the Mandan and Hidatsa on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota
Aegean Anti-Piracy Operations	Greek Pirates	1825–1828	United States victory
Winnebago War or Le Fèvre Indian War	Prairie La Crosse Ho-Chunks, with a few allies	1827	U.S. victory; Ho-Chunks cede lead mining region to the U.S.
Black Hawk War or Black Hawk Campaign	Black Hawk's British Band, with Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi allies	May–August 1832	United States victory
First Sumatran Expedition	Chiefdom of Kuala Batee	February 6 – 9, 1832	United States victory
United States Exploring Expedition	Fiji Samoa Tabiteuea	1838 - 1842	Successful expedition, victory in battle against aborigionals
Second Seminole War or Florida War	Seminole	December 23, 1835 – August 14, 1842	3,800 Seminoles transported to Indian Territory, 300 left in Everglades
Second Sumatran Expedition

 

 I HAVE CHOSEN TO GO ON WITH THIS CHRONOLOGICAL WAR LIST IN YET A SERIES OF BLOGS, SO THAT WE MAY FOCUS ON THE SUBJECT OF "WE THE VETERANS." SO AS YOU CAN SEE, IN THE EARLY DAYS OF AN EMERGING NATION, "WE THE VETERANS" BECAME A BATTLE HARDENED GROUP OF RAG TAGGED SOLDIERS DEFENDING THEIR FLAG TO THE BITTER END, A FLAG THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY EMERGE WITH A FIELD OF 50 STARS THAT ARE NOW ONCE AGAIN THREATENED.  ONLY THIS TIME WE ARE LIABLE TO AGAIN IMPLODE FROM THE ENEMY WITHIN, BOTH SIDES VITRIOLIC AND SEDITIOUS TO A POINT OF POSSIBLE NO RETURN.  VIOLENT RHETORIC AND RACIALLY CHARGED LANGUAGE THAT WILL SERVE NO GOOD IN THE SAVING OF A NATION.  SO ONCE AGAIN WE MUST LOOK TO "WE THE VETERANS" TO LEAD THE NATION OUT OF A MESS AND ERA OF FRIVOLITY. 

ONCE AGAIN I CALL FOR ALL VETERANS TO JOIN TOGETHER, AND AS COLONEL JACK TOOLEY URGED, LET US NOT RETIRE IN THE SENSE THAT WE MUST REMIND AMERICA OF WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE.  FREEDOM IS NOT FREE, BUT IT IS THE AMERICAN VETERAN THAT MUST PAY THAT PRICE, IT IS THE AMERICAN CITIZEN THAT DRINKS THE MILK AND HONEY, AND IT IS THE AMERICAN POLITICIAN THAT RAPES,PILLAGES AND PLUNDERS OUR NATIONAL TREASURY INTO A 14 BILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT.  "WE THE VETERANS" NEED NOT ENTER THE VITRIOLIC POLITICAL ARENA IN ORDER TO HELP RESTORE FREEDOM AND VALUES IN AMERICA.  BUT IT IS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT APPARENTLY MUST RISE TO LEAD THE WAY, AS OUR SO CALLED "LEADERS" HAVE PROVEN BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT THEY ARE NOTHING BUT CROOKS, LIARS, AND CAREER POLITICIANS.  NIXON SAID "I AM NOT A  CROOK", HE WAS A CROOK.  CLINTON SAID "I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT GIRL", HE DID HAVE SEX WITH THAT GIRL.  BUSH STARTED THE STIMULUS THAT HAS LED US DOWN THE PATH OF FINANCIAL DESTRUCTION.  OBAMA HAS ADDED MORE TO THE DEBT THAN ALL PRESIDENTS BEFORE HIM COMBINED.  ROOSEVELT, KENNEDY, EISENHOWER, AND MANY OTHER PRESIDENTS HAD MISTRESSES.  IT IS IRONIC THAT THE VERY PEOPLE THAT RUN OUR COUNTRY HAVE A COMMON VEIN OF IMPROPRIETY AND LACK OF TOTAL MORAL VALUE. THE COUNTRY IS BROKE.  THE COUNTRY IS SPIRITUALLY BEREFT. THE COUNTRY IS WITHOUT AN ECONOMIC ENGINE OR ON A VIABLE COURSE OF CORRECTION WITH A REAL LEADER AT THE HELM AND THE RUDDER.  THE COUNTRY IS ON THE VERGE OF A CIVIL/RACIAL WAR, IF WE DO NOT ALL BACK DOWN, TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND COME TOGETHER AS ONE.  "WE THE VETERANS" MUST RISE ABOVE ALL OF THIS AND HELP CALM, HELP LEAD, AND USE ALL OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND WITS THE MILITARY TAUGHT US TO SAVE A GREAT NATION.  MAY GOD BLESS "WE THE VETERANS", MAY GOD BLESS "WE THE PEOPLES", AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS AMERICA AS A FAVORED NATION.  Hb

THE GOOD

TODAY WE LOOK TOWARD NEXT SUNDAY, A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO DIED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.  IT IS A GOOD AND KIND AMERICA THAT HAS HELD TOGETHER, AND DID NOT LOOSE OUR COMMON GOOD.  IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY EASY TO HAVE GONE OFF HALF COCKED AND STARTED A WORLD WAR OVER THAT DAY AS WAS DONE ON DECEMBER 7, 1941.  INSTEAD WE CONDUCTED LOW LEVEL CAMPAIGNS TO ROUTE OUT THE TERRORISTS, NOW A COMMON THREAD THROUGH TWO PRESIDENTS AND PROBABLY TO BE CONTINUED ON PAST 2012. UNTIL WE TOTALLY DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS WHO CONTINUE TO SEEK MORE 9/11'S,  LET US HOPE AND PRAY THAT WE CAN SOON BRING HOME ALL OF "WE THE VETERANS" FROM TWO THEATERS OF WAR AND ENTER AN ERA OF PEACE.

THE BAD

THE BAD TODAY IS THE NEWS THAT WE WILL LEAVE A MERE 3000 NAKED AMERICAN VETERANS AT THE MERCY OF A YET UNSTABLE NATION OF IRAQ AND THE NEIGHBORING NATION OF IRAN.  ANY IDIOT IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD KNOW THAT THEY ARE SETTING UP ANOTHER BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN.  IF THEY ARE GOING TO LEAVE SUCH A SMALL INDEFENSIBLE FORCE, THEN THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF NEEDS TO GO TO THE UN AND NATO AND TURN IT OVER TO THEM AND BRING ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN HOME FROM IRAQ.  THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE PRETTY FOLKS. 

THE UGLY

TODAY JIMMY HOFFA MAFIA JUNIOR CALLED THE TEA PARTY MEMBERS "SON OF A BITCHES", AND IN VICIOUS VITRIOLIC AND SEDITIOUS LANGUAGE SUGGESTED THAT WE ARE NOT AMERICANS. FIRST OF ALL MR. HOFFA, THE APPLE DID NOT FALL FAR FROM THE TREE, BUT FAR BE IT FROM ME TO FIT YOU WITH CONCRETE SHOES. I WILL NOT HAVE TO, SOMEONE OF YOUR CALIBER WILL.  SECONDLY MR. HOFFA, MY MOTHER IS NOT A BITCH, AND I WOULD LOVE TO MEET YOU IN THE GYM IN A BOXING RING FOR THAT ONE.  THIRDLY MR. HOFFA, YOU APPARENTLY SEEMINGLY SPEAK FOR THE PRESIDENT AS HE DID NOT RECUSE YOU FOR YOUR ANGRY DIRTY TONGUE.  WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS CALL FOR CALM AND LESS RHETORIC?  FOURTHLY MR. HOFFA,  I AM TIME HARDENED AND BATTLE TESTED AND I AM A TRUE BLOODED AMERICAN THAT WOULD NEVER EVER SPEAK IN PUBLIC AS YOU HAVE.  NOR WOULD I EVER NEVER EVER  OFFEND EVEN ONE OF MY FELLOW AMERICANS IN SUCH A WAY.  IT IS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT GIVE OF OUR LIFE BLOOD TO GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, BUT NOT THE RIGHT TO ABUSE IT.  YOU WILL LIVE TO SEE THE DAY YOU WILL REGRET THE UGLY NATURE OF YOUR BEAST, AND SOMEDAY YOU WILL STAND BEFORE YOUR MAKER.  WHAT WILL YOU CALL HIS MOTHER?????