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Sweet Land of Liberty
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Americans, we live in the greatest country in the world, made possible by the grace of God and the US military. We have so much to be thankful for and to be proud of and to look forward to. Dream on. 🇺🇸 🛩🦅🗽🚀
USAF F-35 in Battle Creek, MI
September 11, 2001 Memorial in Erie, Pennsylvania, just outside the Erie Maritime Museum. The centerpiece is part of a column from the World Trade Center.
🇺🇸 "We will never forget." 🇺🇸
visiterie.com/partners/9-11-… (link).
Absolutely beautiful 1877 Gothic Revival church in Austinburg, Ohio, on the National Register of Historic Places.
The congregation, assembled in 1801, was the second Protestant congregation in the Western Reserve.
The Western Reserve, in what is now northeast Ohio, was related to the 1662 royal charter of Connecticut colony. The state of Connecticut retained the land until 1795 and Moses Cleaveland, the Revolutionary War general for whom Cleveland, Ohio, is named (but spelled differently), surveyed the Reserve in 1796.
The people who built the United States were people of faith. Places like this are an important part of our history. austinburgfirstucc.org/histo… (link) and case.edu/ech/articles/w/west… (link).
Presque Isle Lighthouse on Lake Erie, Erie, Pensylvania. Built in 1872, lighthouse keepers and their families maintained the light until 1944, when the US Coast Guard assumed operations. No longer in service, it's now a museum in Presque Isle State Park. presqueislelighthouse.org/ (link).
"For we are naturally disposed to admire more than anything else the man who shows fortitude in adversity." ---Seneca the Younger, On the Brevity of Life (De Brevitate Vitae)
Portrait of Washington, one of his swords, and a letter he wrote and signed at Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond. virginiahistory.org/ (link).
“Repeated defeats in the war’s early campaigns may have reinforced Washington’s feelings of inadequacy for the task at hand. He was, however, a fighter who learned from his mistakes and possessed an unmatched determination and grit. He relied on God and the ‘glorious cause’ for which he was fighting to persevere and sustain himself throughout the war, leading the nascent army through its numerous challenges.” ---Jason Q. Bohm, Washington's Marines, p. 46
Statue at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.
“Repeated defeats in the war’s early campaigns may have reinforced Washington’s feelings of inadequacy for the task at hand. He was, however, a fighter who learned from his mistakes and possessed an unmatched determination and grit. He relied on God and the ‘glorious cause’ for which he was fighting to persevere and sustain himself throughout the war, leading the nascent army through its numerous challenges.” ---Jason Q. Bohm, Washington's Marines, p. 46
Statue at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.
This is what George Washington looked like. It's a copy of a mask made by French sculptor Jean-Francois Houdon at Mount Vernon in 1785. Jefferson and Franklin arranged to have the likeness of their modest friend preserved for posterity. mountvernon.org/george-washi… (link). This copy is at Heinz History Center, a six story museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. heinzhistorycenter.org/ (link). The real mask is at the Morgan Museum in New York City.
Home of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, 1844-1860, in Springfield, Illinois. The house was built in 1839 and the Lincolns rented it out after moving to Washington, D. C. Mary loved cooking and baking and hated to part with her Royal Oak stove, which is still in the kitchen here, when she became First Lady. nps.gov/liho/learn/historycu… (link).
Lincoln home, Springfield, Illinois. Really enjoyed the tour inside. nps.gov/liho/learn/historycu… (link).
Sitting president. Abraham Lincoln statue at Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan. Lincoln was a reader--be a reader like him! lincolncarmuseum.org/ (link).
Sitting president. George Washington statue at the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown, Virginia. Washington was a reader--be a reader like him! jyfmuseums.org/visit/america… (link).
Sitting president. George Washington statue at the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown, Virginia. Washington was a reader--be a reader like him! jyfmuseums.org/visit/america… (link).
A young Ike Eisenhower commanded the first tank school at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during World War I. He and Mamie would later have a house there, and Christmas is a good time to tour it. Photo taken at Eisenhower Presidential Museum, Abilene, Kansas. See: nps.gov/articles/the-armys-f… (link) and armyhistory.org/the-making-o… (link).
Patton's tanks!!! Best thing in the whole museum. Was so excited to see this Renault tank. Before the drive across France, before the Bulge, before crossing the Rhine March 22, 1945, there was St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne. warfarehistorynetwork.com/ar… (link). National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri.
Artifacts connected with Eisenhower's World War I years at his Presidential Museum, Abilene, Kansas. eisenhowerlibrary.gov (link).
Renault tank hood ornament or mascot at Gilmore Car Museum, Hickory Corners, Michigan. gilmorecarmuseum.org/visit/e… (link).
Patton's tanks!!! Best thing in the whole museum. Was so excited to see this Renault tank. Before the drive across France, before the Bulge, before crossing the Rhine March 22, 1945, there was St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne. warfarehistorynetwork.com/ar… (link). National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri.
Here's another Allied tank, defeating the Reichsadler, or Imperial Eagle of the German Empire. The Aquila (eagle) was the emblem of the Roman Army, and the Holy Roman Empire continued to use the eagle as its symbol in various forms. Today, Germany's eagle is called the Bundesadler, or Federal Eagle, adopted in 1950 and using the same design as the eagle of the Weimar Republic during the interwar period. Gilmore Car Museum, Hickory Corners, Michigan. gilmorecarmuseum.org/visit/e… (link).
A legend in his time, adored by all.
Speaking of Cambrai, this is a really good documentary on the British tank offensive there in Nov.-Dec. 1917: youtu.be/IblY0rzH5CE?si=Wb8V… (link).
Gilmore Car Museum has several World War I tank hood ornaments in their extensive collection. The British tank on the right may be a depiction of a Mark IV used at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. Hickory Corners, Michigan. gilmorecarmuseum.org/visit/e… (link).
Been a while since I've seen any WWI Flying Ace products. I've been going to Five Below occassionally to get Arcturus Classics and saw this SUPER CUTE little guy. He can sit next to They Flew to Fame since he's World Famous and cover up the damage on Eagles of the Sky. 🛩
Statue of First Lady Elizabeth Ford at Ford Presidential Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan. To celebrate the Bicentennial in 1976, she worked with Colonial Williamsburg to decorate the White House, honoring American history and folk art. colonialwilliamsburg.org/dis… (link) and fordlibrarymuseum.gov/visit/… (link).
