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Conquer or die

Thinking on the current situation in the war on terror, how many of us have thought about these words?

"We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world."

Conservatives have been saying this for a while now. Liberals and Democrats have been dismissing it as ridiculous.

So who do you think said it? Would you believe it was George Washington? The PatriotPost's Founders Quote Daily gives us these words this morning. Here's the full quotation:

"We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions."

-- George Washington (General Orders, 2 July 1776)

The founding fathers were full of timeless wisdom. Earlier this week I posted about their "failed" wisdom. It really wasn't their failure, it was the failure of generations that followed. What really failed wasn't the wisdom of the founding fathers, but the responsibility of the state legislators and the moral integrity of the "justices" on the courts.

Today, Liberals and Democrats constantly haranguing us to "bring the troops home" have once again forgotten the founder's wisdom. In the name of political power they would have us shamefully fail.

Wednesday Heroes - Lance Cpl. Cory Jamieson & Cpl. Jeremy D. Allbaugh

Lance Cpl. Cory Jamieson
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Personal Security Detachment, Headquarters and Support Company, Task Force 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, attached to Regimental Combat Team 2

Hippocrates once said, "Art is long, life is short".

Cpl. Jeremy David Allbaugh lived a short life. But, he was immortalized recently in acrylics by a Lance Cpl. Jamieson who painted a mural in his honor.

"I feel sad because it is for him, but it makes me happy because I can still do something for him," said Lance Cpl. Jamieson. "I thought about it during the ceremony in the chapel. I looked up at the stained glass windows and I thought 'I should do something like that'".

Along with help from family, a fellow Marine and a Morale, Welfare and Recreation manager, Jamieson had the paint and tools needed.

"I would paint eight or nine hours in the gym and time would fly by," Jamieson said.

Cpl. Jeremy David Allbaugh, 21 years old from Luther, Oklahoma, was killed by a roadside bomb on July 5, 2007 while conducting combat operations in Qaim, Iraq.

"He believed very strongly in what our country's doing," said his mother, Jenifer Allbaugh. "They were doing good things over there, and we don't see that in the news or media. There's a lot of progress being made. I wish more people would talk to our boys who are in it and not our politicians because they see it firsthand".

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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