Contents:-
1- Remember
the Alamo
2- Saving
Kuwait
3- Standing
Down Hitler
4- Thanksgiving
5- The
22nd Amendment
6- The
American Cowboy
7- The
Bill of Rights
8- Vietnam
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Remember the Alamo America
remembers many great battles that represent a turning point during a conflict
that helped shaped our history. we expect of D-Day in war II that turned the
tide of victory toward the allies despite horrific losses. But it's a singular
battle that's remembered proudly and patriotism but is additionally a battle
that was lost and almost everybody on our side brutally killed. But that was
the case within the battle for the Alamo in 1863.
The battle
for the Alamo wasn't a standard battle within the sense of two equally matched
armies fighting back and forth to retain the property. It was, to place it
bluntly, a slaughter. But the brave stand of these few hundred Texans against
thousands of Mexican soldiers continue to inspire us today because it had been
a stand against impossible odds but it had been a stand that reflected the
American ethic of never abandoning or surrendering when there's a principle to
be defended.
The siege at
the Alamo lasted thirteen days. It began on February 23, 1863, and it had been
over by March 6th. it's hard to imagine today, with Mexico to our south a
trusted ally of us but this was a battle to prevent that attempts by Mexico to
invade the newly forming country of us which was an act of war to make certain.
The brave men who stood against that vast army became American icons of bravery
and therefore, the American spirit and the names listed among those killed
therein fort included Davy Crocket, Jim Bowie, the commander of the unit light
colonel William B. Travis. it had been Travis that inspired his men to fight
against insurmountable odds and his courage is what we celebrate whenever we
are saying that famous rallying cry that begins this battle which was
"Remember the Alamo." Travis wrote during a letter how he defied the
Mexican attackers on the eve of the ultimate siege.
I am
besieged, by thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I even have
sustained a continuing Bombardment and cannonade for twenty-four hours and
haven't lost a person. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion,
otherwise, the garrison is to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I even
have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly
from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. I'm determined to sustain
myself as long as possible and die sort of a soldier who never forgets what's
thanks to his honor & that of his country. Victory or Death.
It was this
brave stand that turned the war against this invading army to the advantage of
the Americans. The outrage from the slaughter of those men inspired that famous
rallying cry that we remember even now centuries later once we hear those words
"Remember the Alamo".
The spirit of Texas was never an equivalent and to the present day, Texas prides itself as a nation of particular courage, boldness, and singular independence that even sets them aside from the already fiercely independent American spirit. Moreover, the whole nation looks to the present battle as an example of how a couple of good men helped deliver a victory, albeit it had been at the value of their own lives. That indeed is that the true spirit of patriotism.
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Saving Kuwait The
history of yank's use of its military forces, there is some stand out samples
of how America considers its military could be a force permanently and justice.
and therefore the use of the military for a just cause is often beautifully
illustrated within the way America came to the help of an ally within the Gulf
War of 1991. This war goes under tons of names including Operation Desert Storm
and therefore the Liberation of Kuwait. But whatever title, it had been a
battle America needed to enter into due to an unjust invasion of an ally and an
act of aggression we couldn't just stand by and let happen.
We and
therefore the civilized nations of the planet had put up with tons of barbaric
behavior from Saddam Husain, the dictator of Iraq for an extended time. He was
becoming more and more aggressive in his push to check the desire and therefore
the ability of advanced nations to prevent him. But he crossed the road when on
August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait on trumped-up charges of
illegal drilling of oil on border property between the 2 countries.
It is
important to recollect that America and its allies didn't launch a full-scale
attack within days or weeks of the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait. there have been
efforts to barter and resolve the crisis by peaceful means. But Hussein defied
the planet and continued his decision to absorb Kuwait then possibly take the
attack to the subsequent stage into Saudi Arabia.
The Gulf War
was also a crucial statement to the planet that America's allies are important
to us and that we will defend them if it involves that. We proved that in war
II, Korea, Vietnam, and here within the Middle East. When a rustic becomes a
lover of ours, it's enemies become our enemies. And during this unthinkable
invasion, not only did Iraq directly assault one among America's allies, that
hostility showed that Saudi Arabia was in danger which was a really important
ally also.
America also
leveraged its ability to depend upon its friends from around the world,
rallying an incredible international force because the preparations for war
began to mature. In total, 34 countries sent troops, ships, arms, and other
military assistance to hitch with American military power to show back this
invasion.
The other
lesson this war taught the enemies of America is that the phenomenal
effectiveness of the American military. On January 17, 1991, the assault began
with a huge air raid that stunned the Iraqis and therefore the world. The
ferocity of the bombings and therefore the firestorm that defying the west
brought down on the Iraqi military virtually doomed them to ever mount an
efficient force to fight back against this overwhelming military response to
their aggression.
Following
that air raid came one among the foremost brilliant ground campaigns in modern
warfare. Using modern technology, America faced Iraq's impressive army on its
home turf and soundly defeated them. The Iraqi strategy was to stay the huge desert
behind them because they felt no enemy could ever navigate that desert and find
their rear flank. But was a deadly miscalculation because the coalition forces,
led by General Norman Schwarzkopf, used satellite technology and navigation
systems to guide their armies across that desert by night and stage a shocking
coup de main on the Iraqi Republican Guard bringing them to defeat with a
decisive blow.
The term
"Lightning War" could best be wont to describe the lability of the
American lead coalition armies to repel this invasion on Kuwait. By early March
of 1991, major hostilities were over and Kuwait had been liberated. To defeat
an enemy in but 90 days was an accomplishment the planet never thought
possible. But demonstrated to the planet that America was ready to defend its
allies and stop a ruthless dictator.
Since that
war, there have been discussions about whether President Bush should have used
the advantage we gained by defeating Saddam's armies to capture Iraq also.
President Bush showed great wisdom by sticking to the declared mission and
returning Kuwait to Kuwaiti control. H shows that President Bush in 1991 was
wisely in his leadership which resulted in operational Desert Storm arising to
be one among the foremost successful military campaigns in our history.
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Standing Down Hitler If
you were to ask anybody during this country what was America's "finest
hour", you would possibly find many various answers. for many folks, we
expect a couple of incidents where truth spirit of what it means to be an
American comes forth. And to some, you would possibly hear the solution
"America's finest hour remains before it", which could also be true.
Nobody can tell that immediately.
But in terms
of yank history, without a doubt when America linked arms with its allies and
stood down the terrible threat Adolph Hitler's Germany was posing during war II
would need to represent the best show of strength, national resolve, and honor
within the history of the state. This is because, during these difficult years,
America didn't just use its vast resources to save lots of Americans and
American interests. it's not an overstatement that by standing down Hitler,
America saved the planet.
World War II
was without a doubt the foremost devastating war within the history of the
planet. The price worldwide from this conflict reached over sixty million
people. The aggression of the axis powers appeared to know no limitations which
only makes more dramatic the brave stand that America, England, France, and
therefore the other allied powers showed to face within the face of a
well-armed and ruthless enemy and deny them the planet domination they sought.
It's easy to
seem back now on how the best generation, as they often are called, found the
desire, the determination to risk everything to prevent Hitler's armies. But we
forget that at the time, there was no way of knowing if the allies were getting
to prevail. Early within the war, Hitler seemed unstoppable as he occupied
Poland and therefore the invasion of Europe spread to England, France, Norway,
and beyond giving Germany more and more leverage to spread the war to Africa,
into Russia, and across Asia also. By the time the complete allied force was
assembled and prepared to retaliate, Hitler's advances were so deep and therefore
the spread of the war thus far-reaching that sometimes it seemed impossible to
show back this evil tide of military hostility that threatened to engulf the
world.
As often is
that the case, it had been when America entered the war that the allies began
to ascertain the hope to prevent the horror of what Hitler was trying to try to
do. It took the bombing of Pearl Harbor to place the American population on
alert that the isolation of the American continent didn't mean that they might
be spared the spread of the war to their homeland unless something was done. By
attacking America's ships at a harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, the
Japanese brought the foremost potent military within the world into the war
against the axis powers which eventually spelled doom for the explanation for
Hitler and his allies.
America's
battles on the various fronts of war II is crammed with dozens of stories of
courage and strategic brilliance that finally began to show the war to the
favor of the allies. It took courageous deciding at the very top levels of
command to form that call to use the foremost devastating weapon man had ever
known to strike Japan and speed the top of conflicts. The toll of dropping
nuclear weapons on Japan was horrific but America's president knew that by
ending the conflict, tens of thousands of yank lives would be saved. Only that
made it a justifiable attack. But that attack alone didn't bring Hitler to his
knees. The turn of fortunes began on D-Day on June 5, 1944. This massive
assault on the beaches of Normandy France caught the German defenders all of
sudden. Nevertheless, the value in lives was tremendous as American and allied
troops staged that massive invasion to start to bring the Nazi military down.
We can only reminisce with gratitude to the brave men and women who fought to stay in America and therefore the world free from Hitler's plans of world domination. And by stopping him, we will truly say, this was America's finest hour.
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Thanksgiving Each
year America features a holiday in November that has taken on almost a
spiritual reverence which we call Thanksgiving. We give this holiday such a lot
of honor that it ranks with us alongside Christmas and Easter as a crucial
holiday within the hearts of family and as a nation. But this holiday, so rich
with tradition, has its origins within the earliest days of the founding of
this nation.
The early
years of the explorers to return to the American continent were difficult ones
indeed. Those explorers, we now call The Pilgrims, faced harsh weather,
unpredictable relations with the natives, disease, and other challenges as they
carved out homes from the wilderness they found here. Because their earliest
homestead was within the northeast, the winters were harsh, and their ability
to create houses that would keep them warm and to seek out sufficient food was
a continuing worry to the lads and ladies trying to raise families in America.
So anytime
they received help from the native population, it had been viewed as a present
from God and accepted with the best of joy and celebration. A Native American
chief by the name of Squanto saw the plight of those new neighbors and saw
thereto his tribe helped these young families to survive. Besides providing
food and wisdom about the way to build structures that would keep them safe
within the winter, Squanto taught them to fish, the way to prepare eel and
other strange sea creatures they harvested, and the way to farm.
This act of
friendship was the origin of our revered holiday of Thanksgiving. The Virginia
Colony established the tradition of holding each day of collective prayers of
thanksgiving, which tradition continues today. Except it's not just each day of
thanksgiving for the kindness and generosity of Squanto to our forefathers. We
cash in of today of reverence and thanksgiving to be grateful for all the great
things that God has blessed this nation with.
The foods we
use to celebrate Thanksgiving were ones that the pilgrim travelers found native
to the present country and therefore the foods that, with the assistance of
Native American teachers, they learned to capture, harvest, and prepare to feed
their families and prosper in their new home. Turkey was a game foul that was
in ample supply to the pilgrims once Squanto showed them the way to hurt the bird
with reliable success.
The
vegetables we like to wear on our traditional menus also had their origins
within the early lives of the pilgrims. Potatoes, cranberries, sweet potatoes,
green beans, and every one the remainder were vegetables that the pilgrims had
to find out to reap, farm, and prepare from natives of the land. So in some
ways, our modern holiday, despite the dominance of football games and therefore
the upcoming Christmas holiday, retains the atmosphere of these early
celebrations.
And the meaning of the vacation, despite commercialization, has been retained. Americans have much to be thankful for. The abundance of the land, the health of the foremost prosperous economy on earth, and a society that's free and ready to encourage freedom in other cultures are just a couple of the items we celebrate at this holiday time. except for most folks, it's a time to collect family and friends near and be thankful to God for our health, for the blessings of jobs, and for the privilege all Americans share to be ready to sleep in the best nation on earth where opportunity is ample that any folks can make it and had best if we exerting at our chosen area of experience. And these are things truly deserve giving thanks for.
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The 22nd Amendment On
February 27th, 1951, the 22nd amendment was ratified which made permanent a
practice that has a profound influence on the philosophy of state within us of
America. This amendment might not be the foremost documented amendment but its
place within the fabric of yank history can't be overstated. that's because the
22nd Amendment mandated that…
No person shall be elected to the
office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office
of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which
some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the
President more than once.
The
limitation of service as President of us to 2 terms was one that up until the
22nd amendment was more a matter of custom than law. It began when Washington
refused to run a 3rd term. But by making the limitation of power within the
presidency within the 22nd amendment, the American people made a bold statement
about how their government would be run.
One of the
foremost unique aspects of how we of America organized its government was the
concept of citizen rulers. this idea was born within the very halls and pubs
where the founding fathers gathered to debate this new country that was just
getting started. By reducing the thought of a "career politician",
especially at the presidential level, the 22nd amendment dealt a deadly blow to
the concept that America would ever be ruled by a king or a "president for
all times ."
This was a
reaction by America to the abuses that had been witnessed by the pilgrims and
immigrants that structure this great country in their homelands. They reacted
strongly and negatively to the deification of kings and therefore the virtually
unlimited powers that too repeatedly systems of royalty attended give to their
leadership. This was one of the central themes that caused numerous to
escape Europe, Central Asia, and other parts of the planet to hunt a land where
it had been the people that were the middle of the governments will, not the
arbitrary ideas of a king who was stopped from the important needs of the
people he served.
The way
America found out its presidency was in every way an effort to "fix"
the issues and abuses of the ECU models and refocus the middle of power in
government on the electorate instead of on the elected. Another aspect of the
American federal system that was put in situ deliberately to limit the power of
these in power to abuse that power is that the system of checks and balances.
this technique assures that none of the branches of the state, Congress, the
Presidency, or the Supreme Court could dominate the opposite or take complete
power and rule without challenge. By ensuring that each one in power had to
answer to the opposing party and be prepared to answer to the American people for
what they did and even said, this eliminated the chances that one a part of the
govt would stage a "coup" over the opposite.
Accountability
maybe a word that's not very exciting but it's the concept that has kept the
American system of state health and in commission to its people instead of
putting them in commission for over 200 years.
In addition to those several highly innovative methods
the founding fathers gave to the present young country to eliminate the abuses
of past governmental systems, they also put a system in situ that assured the orderly transition of power. The system of elections every two years stopped
two evils, the occurrence of an official who served for all times without
accountability, and a system wherein the sole thanks to losing your job in
government was by violent overthrow. As a result the American system, albeit
contentious and argumentative, has been and continues to be one among the
foremost peaceful and orderly systems of federal administration within the
world and indeed within the history of the planet.
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American Cowboy Americans
have a singular vision of themselves and their role within the world. Unlike
perhaps the other peoples in history, Americans see themselves as people of
destiny and nation who were put here to try to something phenomenal and
something significant for history and all peoples of the world. This unique
self-concept, sometimes perceived as arrogance, is deeply grounded during a set
of archetypes that Americans use to make their vision of themselves within the
world. And no other archetype is as powerful within the American psyche than
that of the cowboy.
The actual
American cowboy was indeed a singular individual. While probably not as noble
and ruggedly handsome because of the images created of him within the movies,
they were unique sorts of men who carved out a civilization from the rugged
wilderness that was the American west within the years before the turn of the
last century.
Some of the
explanations that the image of the cowboy sometimes includes elements of the
outlaw and therefore the loner is that much of the legend of the cowboy came
from stories of refugees from the broken southern army who took to the lifetime
of the cowboy instead of a plan to integrate into a society that included making
peace with "the Yankee". which sort of individual certainly did
account for several of the outlaws who went on to become the things of legend
and stories even to the present day.
The renegade
and loner image combined with the rough life of an actual cowboy whose job it
had been to guide those huge herds of cattle along trails like the historic
Cumberland trail where they might be sold to become the steaks, leather, and
other goods that were sold in rustic American stores of the time. This was a
difficult life and therefore the stories of the trail structure many history
books needless to say. But much more of the stories of the trail are
glorifications of that lifestyle that has got to are difficult indeed.
But the image
of the cowboy was also something that grew larger than what the particular
lifestyle of these simple but rugged men must have lived within the American
west. it had been a picture that pulled together heroes as far away because of
the Australian Gaucho cowboy, the Japanese Samurai and a knight in King
Arthur's court. it had been a picture of a person who demonstrated the
individualism that each one Americans concede to be one among the central
unifying traits that create America great.
The cowboy
image is one that even has its influence as high within the social strata of
America that it influences the presidency. it's said that there's a practice
for any president when he first is elected and involves Washington to start
learning this big new job. Tradition holds that every president has as a part
of their early duties to take a seat down and watch the movie noon. they assert
that Clinton watched it dozens of times in his early years. If this is often
true, it accounts for a way often a replacement president seems to grow and
alter within the office and becomes his version of the good American hero
that's depicted therein movie. The American cowboy defends the virtue of the
weak and helpless. he's a staunch defender of families and people in society
who try to carve out a range in a difficult world. As such, the American cowboy
fits with the "superhero" image that also appeals to the American
system of justice and morality, and values.
Even the star wars epic films were fundamentally grounded within the legend of the cowboy. The cowboy concept grew up from a history of our country that included the settling of an enormous land and therefore the settling of wilderness that pit the god-given will and intellect of man against God's creation. And it had been the desire of a man that prevailed. that's why American's admire the cowboy because he represents their struggles for greatness, for fulfillment, and to be a heroic figure a minimum of for his or her families, home towns, and churches. which desire so deeply rooted within the culture of yank history will always be what makes America and Americans great.
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The Bill of Rights We
as Americans have incredible regard and respect for the framers of our
Constitution because it had been they that laid the inspiration stones for the
best country on earth. But on top of the various amazing aspects of the
Constitution, one stands out as an act of wisdom and foresight that made sure
the Constitution would remain a living document for hundreds of years. That was
the supply of the Constitution that allowed for the addition of amendments.
It was
shortly after the Constitution was ratified that the primary ten amendments
were indeed organized and have become law. That those ten amendments became as
central to the American system of state because of the Constitution itself.
they need come to be referred to as the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of
Rights is so deeply ingrained within the American consciousness that they're
often referenced in conversations about issues, how Americans work and live
together, and our relationship with the govt. truth genius of the Bill of
Rights was the work it did to severely limit the power of the govt of us to
ever interfere with the elemental rights of its citizens. this is often a
shocking achievement at a governmental level once you think in terms of legal
systems of governments throughout history and around the world.
These ten
amendments assure that the rights of citizens during this country are forever
shielded from any move by any administration to require those rights and
provides them to the govt itself. As such, the govt is forever banned from
getting too strong and it relegates the govt to a servant role in society which
so often isn't the case in governmental politics elsewhere within the world.
The ten
amendments to the Constitution cover the core rights of USA citizens including…
1. Freedom of faith, free speech,
freedom of the press, and therefore the fundamental right of assembly without
worrying about harassment from the govt. Also the proper to petition the govt
to hunt relief for grievances caused by the govt.
2. the proper in touch arms.
3. Protection from the forced
habitation of troops in civilian homes during a time of conflict.
4. Protection from unreasonable search
and seizure as a part of a criminal investigation.
5. the proper due process of law when
being accused of a criminal offense.
6. the proper to a jury trial, to be
allowed to cross-question your accusers and other rights of the accused to
assure Americans can't be "railroaded" by the system.
7. the proper to a civil trial by jury
8. Protection against cruel and weird
punishment and therefore the right to bail.
9. Protection of rights not
specifically spelled call at these ten amendments
10. Protection of state's rights.
Of these
rights, those listed within the First Amendment are most frequently quoted and
most cherished by Americans. the first authorship of the Bill of Rights is
credited to Madison. These basic rules of order for a way the govt will respect
its citizenry set in situ and entitlement of rights by Americans that has
fundamentally shaped this country and the way Americans come to expect its
government to behave.
It endowed the citizenry of the land with the expectation that the rights of the citizens of the country at a really basic level are more important than the rights of the govt which the govt "works for us" which may be a phenomenal change to the way societies are organized throughout history. As such, The Bill of Rights is one of the various reasons that America is often considered the foremost unique country within the world and therefore the country that a lot of citizens of other nations with their counties would emulate.
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Vietnam In the
annals of yank history, there could also be no other country name that evokes
such emotion because of the country of Vietnam. The history of this conflict is
quite just a military struggle. The impact that the Vietnam conflict had on
American culture and policy for several decades to return makes it a very
watershed war within the lifetime of a comparatively young country.
Vietnam
wasn't, on the surface as an ethical battleground as war II or the war had
been. That in itself made it harder for Americans to know and become patriotic
about as that they had been in prior wars. Yes, as in past conflicts, we found
ourselves defending our allies, the South Vietnamese against the attacks of a
communist neighbor to the north. And therein way, it became a struggle to help
an ally, a military objective that America had long embraced.
But the war
wasn't just with the North Vietnamese. To a really large extent, the war was
against the Chinese, and therefore the Russians who were using the stage in
Vietnam to affect the American fighting force. it had been a war that had been
happening for several decades before the Americans got involved as a regional
battle.
Many foreign
powers had gotten involved and left defeated so when America entered this
conflict, it had been a different quite war than we had been wont to. The
armies mixed with the population. there have been no uniforms and formations
and battle theaters as the battle could occur anywhere at any time. Combine
that with a hostile jungle setting and therefore the complete absence of any
battle protocol and you had a formula for failure if not a difficult road to
success.
Vietnam is
also a watchword for the tremendous resistance movement that rose abreast of
American soil to undertake to prevent the conflict. This resistance movement
became deeply entangled with an enormous change to the social fabric within the
rise of the youth crusade, the hippies, and therefore the fast-paced surge of
the civil rights and the woman's rights movements. This made the age of the
late 1950s through the first 1970s tremendously difficult to navigate as a
nation.
Vietnam did
follow somewhat of a predictable path of invasions, major battles, setbacks,
and regrouping of our forces. But the military faced an enormous challenge in
facing the various new war scenarios this difficult combat setting presented.
because the casualty count grew, without a transparent cut definition of
victory and with only a few clear victories to demonstrate to the American
people our superiority, the power of civilian leadership to sustain the support
for the war effort became jeopardized.
Vietnam
considerably represents a transition in how America viewed conflict. We came
out of the large successes we had seen our military usher in battle. The defeat
of Hitler and therefore the axis powers in war II gave America a way of
confidence, of divine calling to prevail militarily, and therefore the concept
that we are the great guys and that we will always win. But we didn't win in
Vietnam which was and maybe a hard lesson to find out.
America
demonstrated its devout dedication to the concept of supporting an ally during
a warring situation when it committed troops to the Vietnam conflict. But there
have been many lessons to be learned about preparation and going into a
conflict with a technique that had a high probability of success. In wars to
return in later years like Grenada, the Balkans, and therefore the Liberation
of Kuwait, we demonstrated that America had learned those lessons getting into
with a huge force and achieving victory before we got caught up during a long
civil conflict.
So we will
applaud the bravery of our troops and therefore the willingness of our
leadership to find out from a troublesome war like Vietnam. the teachings to be
learned from Vietnam are still being figured out. But within the end, we'll be
a far better nation and a stronger nation because we put ourselves on the road
for a lover, albeit the result wasn't the specified outcome.
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