America Why I Love Her

This is beautiful, worth listening to, narrated by John Wayne. Just thought I would share.

http://www.mamarocks.com:80/why_i_love_her.htm

War veteran honored ... 230 years later

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This was on the front page of todays newspaper!

By Bob Clark
The Evening Tribune
Sat Jun 27, 2009, 09:14 PM EDT

War veteran honored ... 230 years later

Jasper, N.Y. -
It’s been more than 230 years since David Cook fought to form the United States, and local historians are hoping to keep his memory — and those of other early veterans — alive.

Several dozen people attended the ceremony at Five Corners Cemetery to honor Ensign David Cook who served in the Continental Army.

Cook served as an ensign in the New Jersey Militia, according to Minnie Brennan, historian for the Kanisteo Valley Chapter of the DAR.

“The company elected him as an ensign,” Brennan said, adding Cook was involved in the skirmish with the redcoats at Chatham Bridge in New Jersey.

The information about Cook came from a sworn statement by Cook submitted to the Woodhull town court in the 1830s, Brennan said, which were part of the process to receive a pension for his war service.

Following the war, Cook moved to Wyoming County, Pa., then to Painted Post, where he was married April 22, 1819 to Alice Butler. The couple moved to Tioga County, Pa., and later moved to the Town of Woodhull. Cook died at the age of 88 in 1841 and was buried at the cemetery, where no mention of his service was placed until Saturday.

The DAR unveiled a bronze plaque provided by the Veterans Administration, placed on a stone block in front of Cook’s tombstone, as well as Revolutionary War flag holders.

The ceremony ended when an American Legion colorguard from the Arkport and Wayland posts fired shot in Cook’s memory and Taps was played by buglers Staff Sgt. Ken Ham and Canisteo-Greenwood High School trumpeter Derek Brown.

Also attending the ceremony were some of Cook’s descendents, including Brenda Criss of Lindley.

“I just discovered this,” she said, adding she is related maternally to Cook.

Around 1990, Criss — then on the Lindley town board — chaired the Lindley Heritage Day committee and began to look at her family’s history.

“My mother really kept up on the genealogy,” Criss said. “I went through a lot of my parents’ things and found a lineage draft (written in the 1950s).

Cook was not part of that lineage, but she joined the DAR through another veteran.

“I didn’t do anything more with it until I got the phone call (about Cook),” she continued. “You should really go back into your genealogy and see what’s there.”

Las Vegas Diamond Rio Concert
The song you are about to listen to is from
a Las Vegas Diamond Rio Concert. They received an immediate
resounding standing ovation, and
continue to do so every time they perform it!
Sadly, major radio stations wouldn't play it because it was
considered 'politically incorrect'.
Consequently, the song was never released to
the Public.
Turn off the music on the blog first to get the best sound.

They make us proud!

Well worth watching ... makes you proud of our colleagues under arms
Hall of heroes