Founding Patriots

They say he could call on the harps of the blessed when he chose. And this was-just as simple and easy as a man could talk. But he didn’t start out by condemning or revil
ing. He was talking about the things that make a country a country, and a man a man.
 And he began with the simple things that everybody’s known and felt-the freshness of a fine morning when you’re young, and the taste of food when you’re hungry, and the new day that’s every day when you’re a child. He took them up and he turned them in his hands. They were good.things for any man. But without freedom, they sickened. And when he talked of those enslaved, and the sorrows of slavery, his voice got like a big bell. He talked of the early days of America and the men who had made those days. It wasn’t a spread-eagle speech, but he made you see it. He admitted all the wrong that had ever been done. But he showed how, out of the wrong and the right, the suffering and the starvations, something new had come. And everybody had played a part in it, even the traitors.

The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benet

To help celebrate our 250th birthday on the fourth in 2026, the White House has released a torrent of striking videos:

All Americans should view these, especially young Americans.  No doubt these are just the first videos in this series.  As more are released, I will bring them to you.