Camp Freedom Ranch

PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN;

Since the beginning of the republic, millions of service members have raised their hands and sworn to “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic” not because they were forced but because of a Love of Country and a Sense of Duty to preserve for future generations our God Given “inalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

In my years of service in the Marine Corps I never thought I would see the day that I would be attacked for my belief in God and love of Country.

I have served 22 years in the USMC and had the privilege and Honor to fight through three wars. Like many who have born the burden of battle my family and I have endured the hardships of war and long deployments just like many brave Americans who have done the same and today because we love our Country and express a belief in God we are being called Christian Nationalist as if a love of Country and in Christ is all of a sudden un-American.

We hold these Truths to be self evident that All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.
What happened to the American Ideals we fought to preserve such as a Right of Conscience?

Today our very Faith and belief in Christ is being attacked in an attempt to shut us up. The label of Christian Nationalist is trying to be cast on us as a means to shame us for what and who we believe in. If there is no Creator God then there is no grounds for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution because it all hinges on there being a Creator and not a man or government.

Christian: one who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ

Nationalist: : a member of a political party or group advocating national independence or strong national government.

Nationalism: loyalty and devotion to a nation.

We are a Christian Nation founded on Christian principles and when we allow other antithetical agendas and ideologies to attack those very principles on which America was founded; “history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. "We don't know how lucky we are." If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to.” (President Ronald Reagan)

These baseless attacks of Character Assassination on Veterans, American Patriots and those families whose members have already paid the ultimate price with their shed blood is reprehensible.

If we don't stand together United then divided we will fall.

“First they came for the socialist, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionsist, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionsist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.” (Martin Niemoller)

LIVE YOUR LIFE

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. “

Tecumseh