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Hair Growth Expert: ‘Wake Up Sleeping Follicles Now’ Plastic Surgey and Improvements Cost Them Too Much That is the virtue of piety , honored in every human culture of which I am aware. When I was a boy, I had a powerful experience of this virtue every year, on Memorial Day. Early in the morning, a parade led by veterans in uniform would proceed up the hill to the Lutheran cemetery near our house. A group of us boys followed them, because we wanted to see and hear the rifles when they fired the 21-gun salute, to honor the men who had served their nation in war. Then, under the tall fir trees and among the gravestones and the smoke, a single veteran with a bugle played Taps. It stirred us to the soul.
Being boys, though, we had more cheerful things in mind. In those days, lawsuits had not yet laid their dead hands on childhood, so we were allowed to hop on the fire trucks—that was why we had gotten up so early, after all—as they and the parade and the band made their way through town, till they stopped a second time, at the Catholic cemetery, there to hear Mass, and afterwards to return to the American Legion, where the members passed out doughnuts and orange juice.
We don’t honor our fathers and mothers because they were perfect. We ourselves are sinners as they were. We honor them because they were our fathers and mothers, and they gave us a gift we cannot repay, the gift of life itself. What applies to our parents and grandparents applies also, by analogy, to our homeland, our nation. We should not be like Ham, who took delight in revealing his father Noah’s nakedness. American history is, if you wish to regard it so, a terrible saga of violence, greed, and treachery. But so is the history of every nation, and the pre-history of every clan and tribe. That is not to excuse us, but to be honest, and to hold that terribly clear mirror up to ourselves.
We are not saints. We […]
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They’re Trying to Shut Us Down
Over the last several months, I’ve lost count of how many times the powers-that-be have tried to shut us down. They’ve sent hackers at us, forcing us to take extreme measures on web security. They sent attorneys after us, but thankfully we’re not easily intimidated by baseless accusations or threats. They’ve even gone so far as to make physical threats. Those can actually be a bit worrisome but Remington has me covered.
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