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From: "Max Evans" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] remembering
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 14:58:46 -0500
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Lanita, that was a good patriotic speech. I don't know whether we need to
run you for office or keep you for a genealogist.
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From: "Larry Wyatt" <>
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Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:10 PM
Subject: RE: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] remembering


> Well done, Lanita!
>
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lanita Sconce Smith [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 1:29 PM
> To:
> Subject: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] remembering
>
> As we celebrate the birthday of our nation this weekend, let us not
> forget not only those who fought and gave the ultimate sacrifice with
> their death, but those who, in their own way, supported the cause of
> independence for our great nation and her freedom.
>
> From the shot heard around the world at Lexington and Concord, from
> Valley Forge, Bunker Hill and Yorktown, from the local farms and towns
> and communities, our ancestors fought with a dream of being free from
> tyranny. Their only thoughts were of freedom from a mother country who
> had taxed them on every level, seemingly for their very existence.
>
> The colonists didn't care about parties or politics. They didn't care
> about whether one had money or not. They didn't care whether one
> dressed in their finest apparel or dressed in their worn overalls from
> their hard labor. They cared about each other, about freedom from a
> bully, and about making their own rules for their own lives. They cared
> enough to fight for this idea of FREEDOM. Men who toiled their life's
> work as farmers, left their families to fight. And even though the
> world and law looked at them as nothing more than their husband's
> property, women supported the movement by running the farms. Some even
> disguised themselves as men so that they would be able to go to the
> front lines as well. Children took up the fight. Little Boys became
> 'men'. They did their father's work and were busy protecting their
> mothers and sisters while hunting the wild game meat. While sisters ran
> the household chores with the baking of the bread, doing the wash over
> the hot kettle, and other chores that today's women would collapse
> over, mama was in the field planting and harvesting the necessary crops
> for food on the family's table come winter. The families, sweating the
> hot summer months while freezing in winter, did their part while
> waiting word from papa wherever he would be, when he had a chance to
> send a note home letting them know of his safety and life. Grocery
> owners provided supplies to the Continental troops, knowing that they
> may not be paid financially for their donations. Blacksmiths made and
> donated the metal wears necessary for the fight as well. Churches,
> homes and barns of everyday people provided shelter for troops.
> Everyone worked together for the common good of FREEDOM.
>
> FREEDOM, a state of being able to make their own choices, taking care
> of their own lives, and being able to worship their own God as they saw
> fit without the interference of an authority telling them that they
> couldn't. FREEDOM, a state where one cared about his or her neighbors,
> helped them get started in life by raising a barn or house or whenever
> necessity arose, and who freely open their doors to strangers seeking
> help.
>
> Never did the Freedom Fighters dream that this little 13 colony nation,
> later known as the United States of America, would become the most
> powerful nation in the world. They never suspected that people would
> come to America in droves from all over the world in hopes of finding
> that same freedom. They didn't imagine that immigrants would do
> whatever it took to sneak into this country, legally and illegally, and
> in any way possible, for the hopes and dreams of this same freedom.
>
> FREEDOM, an extraordinary word, in an extraordinary time. FREEDOM, a
> word that links poor to the rich, weak to the strong, farmer to the
> politician, and men, women and children of every color, creed, and
> religion.
>
> I'm glad that our forefathers and foremothers didn't know of the
> outcome of their sacrifice that would benefit the generations to come,
> it might have been more than they could bear. I'm glad and very
> grateful, however, that they weren't afraid to do their part in
> whatever they could do to make it possible. In the process and in their
> success, they were responsible for setting the standards for our free
> way of life. FREEDOM long may we be free! May we continue to pray for
> and be willing to help those who ask, who aren't.
>
> Lanita Sconce Smith
> a descendant of Freedom Fighters and supporters
>
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