Arn's viewpoint on 

"GOD BLESS AMERICA - UNDER GOD"
(Amen from Patty)

GOOD MORNING, TOP OF THE MORNING TO YOU !

YES, I AGREE , IT IS OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE, OUR FLAG, ONE NATION UNDER GOD WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. I HAVE MANY ANCESTORS THAT FOUGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM, 3 FOURTH GREAT GRANDFATHERS THAT WAS REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. 

I AM A FULL MEMBER OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THRU MY 4TH GREAT GRANDFATHER JACOB BURKET, REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER, I HAD TO PROVE ALL THIS THRU PUBLIC RECORDS TO BELONG TO THAT HONOR SOCIETY. I HAD MANY RELATIVES THAT WAS REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS, JACOB BURKET'S BROTHER GEORGE BURKET WAS A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER, THEN A RANGER IN BEDFORD COUNTY, PA, RANGERS WERE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS ON THE FRONTIER. THEN MY 4TH. GREAT GRANDFATHER JACOB BURKET'S FIRST COUSINS, JOHN JACOB BURKHARDT/ AKA JACOB BURKET AND HIS BROTHER' JOHN GEORGE BURKHARDT/ AKA JOHN BURKET, THEY BOTH WAS REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS, JOHN GEORGE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ELITE GROUP, THE DRAGOONS, 12 GERMANS THAT WAS PERSONAL BODYGUARDS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, PLUS OTHER RELATIVES, JOHN HART, A SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE HAS BURKET TIES, ALSO PRESIDENTS HOOVER AND EISENHOWER HAVE BURKET BLOOD AND ARE COUSINS, PLUS, PRESIDENT HOOVER AND PRESIDENT NIXON ARE COUSINS THRU HOOVER'S MOTHER, HILDA R. MINTHRONE., THEIR ANCESTORS WERE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS, JEHU BURKET WAS A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER.

THEN THE CIVIL WAR I HAD MANY RELATIVES, THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG I COUNTED OVER A DOZEN RELATIVES THAT FOUGHT IN THAT BATTLE, MY GREAT GRANDFATHER PETER BURKET, HIS BROTHER IN LAW CYRUS GEER MARRIED TO PETER'S SISTER NANCY JANE ( THIS IS THE LINE THAT SPARKY LYLE THE BASEBALL PLAYER FROM REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. IS FROM ), PETER BURKET'S NEPHEW LITTLE ABE BURKET FROM CLAYSBURG, PA. MY GREAT GRANDFATHER DANIEL KRISE AND OTHER KRISE RELATIVES FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR, ALSO MY GREAT GRANDFATHER MOSHER, HIS BROTHER WAS A CIVIL WAR VETERAN JAMES H. MOSHER.

THE FIRST WORLD WAR MANY RELATIVES FOUGHT IN GERMANY AND FRANCE, SEVERAL OF MY GRANDFATHER'S BROTHERS AND NEPHEWS FOUGHT, MY GRANDFATHER'S BROTHER CHARLES BURKETT LIES IN THE CEMETERY JUST ACROSS THE FIELD FROM MY HOME, HIS STOMACH WAS SHOT WITH A MACHINE GUN,

WWII MANY RELATIVES FOUGHT, MY GRANDFATHER BURKETT'S NEPHEWS, 6 HETRICK'S WERE IN WWII, MY TWO BROTHER-IN-LAWS AND MANY OTHERS,

KOREAN WAR, MY BROTHER WAS A KOREAN VETERAN, MY COUSIN JIMMY PARK GOT BLOWN UP IN A TANK IN KOREA, PLUS THERE WAS MANY OTHER RELATIVES, 3 OF THE HETRICKS THAT FOUGHT IN WWII, ALSO FOUGHT IN KOREA, VIETNAM, I HAVE A COUSIN LAYING IN THE CEMETERY ACROSS THE FIELD FROM MY HOME THAT FOUGHT IN VIETNAM, PLUS THERE WAS MANY OTHERS.

ALSO, MANY FRIENDS FOUGHT IN THE WARS, I HAVE A BOOK I MADE UP OF THE VETERANS IN THE AREA CEMETERIES, THE BOOK IS ABOUT A HALF INCH THICK WITH THE VETERANS NAMES AND BRANCH OF SERVICE, AND WE ARE A RURAL AREA.

I HAVE A COUSIN THAT LIVES IN WASHINGTON, DC., DEAN SMITH FROM MY MOTHER'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY, DEAN SMITH IS A MEMBER OF THE DESCENDANTS OF THE MAYFLOWER SOCIETY, HE HAS TWO ANCESTORS THAT CAME ON THE MAYFLOWER THAT HE TRACES HIS LINEAGE, JOHN HOWLAND AND ELIZABETH TILLEY, THEY MARRIED.

SO, THE POINT IS, I HAVE A LOT OF DOCUMENTATION OF ANCESTORS THAT GAVE THEIR BLOOD FOR THE FREEDOM WE HAVE IN THE USA, AND THIS FREEDOM CAME AT A VERY HIGH COST AND ALL THIS FREEDOM WAS WON BY BELIEVING IN GOD AND OUR FLAG, IT IS FITTING AND APPROPRIATE THAT IN GOD WE TRUST BE PART OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, THIS IS THE HERITAGE OUR FOREFATHERS GAVE US, OUR FOREFATHERS FORMED THE CONSTITUTION, MADE OUR FLAG, OLD GLORY AND OUR TOTAL GOVERNMENT WHICH HAS SERVED US WELL FOR OVER 200 HUNDRED YEARS, ALSO THESE FOREFATHERS WERE OF EUROPEAN DESCENT, LARGELY GERMANS, AND THE RELIGION WAS SOME VERSION OF THE LUTHERAN OR CATHOLIC FAITH, OR QUAKERS, THERE WAS TWO TYPE OF QUAKERS, THE STRICT QUAKERS THAT DID NOT TAKE UP ARMS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, THEN THERE ARE THE FREE QUAKERS THAT FOUGHT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. THIS COUNTRY WAS STARTED FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WHEN WM. PENN WAS RUN OUT OF ENGLAND AND WENT TO THE NETHERLANDS WITH HIS QUAKERS, THEN WM PENN SETTLED A DEBT WITH THE CROWN OF ENGLAND OWED HIS FATHER, THE DEBT WAS SETTLED BY WM PENN TAKING LAND IN THE NEW WORLD, AMERICA, SO PENN'S COLONY OF QUAKER FOLLOWERS CAME TO WM. PENN'S COLONY IN THE NEW WORLD, IT WAS NAMED PENNSYLVANIA.

 WM PENN OPENED HIS COLONY TO EVERYONE, IT WAS SETTLED MOSTLY BY GERMANS AND FRENCH HUGUENOTS, HUGUENOTS WERE FRENCH PROTESTANTS, GERMANS WAS CATHOLIC OR OF A VERSION OF THE LUTHERAN RELIGION. THE REASON FOR LEAVING THEIR HOMELAND, IN GERMAN ITS DEUTSCHLAND,, THAT IS HOW THE TERM PA DUTCH WAS COINED, THESE PEOPLE LEFT THEIR HOMELAND BECAUSE OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION, THE FRENCH HUGUENOTS WAS SLAUGHTERED FOR THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, THE GERMANS WERE OPPRESSED ALSO, THEY WERE CONSTANTLY AT WAR OVER THE FERTILE RHINELAND, IT WAS MANDATORY TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY, GO OFF TO WAR FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND THERE WAS A LOT OF WARS.

A SIDE NOTE, IN ROMAN DAYS A ROMAN MAN HAD TO SERVE 25 YEARS IN THE ROMAN ARMY, THAT DID NOT LEAVE MUCH TIME FOR A LIFE OF YOUR OWN, MOST TIMES WITH ALL THE WARS, SERVING IN THE MILITARY WAS A DEATH SENTENCE, YOU GOT SLAUGHTERED IN COMBAT . THAT NOT ONLY WAS FOR THE ROMANS, BUT ANY SOLDIER.

SO, AFTER WM PENN GOT PENNSYLVANIA ESTABLISHED, OTHERS LIKE LORD BALTIMORE ESTABLISHED COLONIES, LORD BALTIMORE WAS CATHOLIC.

ADDED NOTE, THERE WAS NO ISLAMIC OR ASIAN 'S INVOLVED IN THE FORMING OF AMERICA, ALSO THE CHINESE CAME LATER ON.

ADDED NOTE: BEN FRANKLIN WENT TO FRANCE AND SECURED THE AID OF FRANCE TO WIN INDEPENDENCE FROM THE BRITISH, ANOTHER FACT IS THAT THE BRITISH HAD OTHER WARS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME WE WAS FIGHTING FOR OUR FREEDOM, THEN WITH FRANCE ON OUR SIDE, THE BRITISH DID NOT WANT TO RISK WAR WITH FRANCE.

SO NOW YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW OUR COUNTRY WAS BROUGHT ABOUT, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WAS NUMBER 1, PLUS TO LIVE WITH OUT BEING IN BONDAGE TO A GOVERNMENT, THE AGE EXPECTANCY AT THE TIME OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WAS ABOUT 30 TO 40 YEARS, SO YOU DID NOT HAVE MUCH TIME TO HAVE A LIFE OF YOUR OWN, SO OUR BRAVE ILLUSTRIOUS ANCESTORS THAT HAD ALREADY LIVED A BIG PORTION OF THEIR LIVES AS A PUPPET ON A STRING FOR A SCREWBALL DICTATORSHIP GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE WAS FACED WITH A CHOICE IN THE NEW WORLD, DIE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM OR LAY DOWN ONCE AGAIN AND SUCCUMB TO THE SAME DRUDGERY THEY HAD JUST ESCAPED FROM, THEY CHOSE TO FIGHT , THEY HAD BARELY ANYTHING, NO ARMY THAT COULD MATCH THE MOST POWERFUL ARMY ON EARTH, ALSO A GREAT SEA POWER.

ADDED NOTE: KOSCIUSKO, THE POLISH PRINCE KOSCIUSKO, THIS BRAVE FELLOW CAME TO THE AID ALSO OF THE AMERICANS AND FOUGHT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AGAINST THE BRITISH, HE GAVE OF HIMSELF AND HIS RESOURCES FREELY, HE WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON'S GOOD FRIEND, HE DID A LOT TO HELP OUR CAUSE, NOT MUCH IS EVER SAID ABOUT HIM. KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN THE STATE OF INDIANA IS NAMED IN HIS HONOR, ALSO IF YOU LOOK IN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, YOU WILL SEE THE TOWN OF BURKET. ALSO A SOUTHERN STATE, MISSISSIPPI I THINK HAS A KOSCIUSKO COUNTY.

SO THE NEXT TIME YOU MAKE A DUMB POLISH JOKE, YOU MAY WANT TO STOP AND THINK ABOUT IT, THE POLISH EARNED OUR RESPECT DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

SO, THE SUMMERY IS THIS, IT WOULD BE A TOTAL DISGRACE AND A SLAP IN THE FACE TO OUR ANCESTORS TO TAKE THE WORDS UNDER GOD OUT OF OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. IT WOULD BE A LACK OF FAITH AND A SLAP IN THE FACE TO SHUN OUR GOD WHO STOOD BESIDE US AND GUIDED US TO RISE UP AND OVERCOME TYRANNY, THE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO DO THIS THEIR ANCESTORS HAD NO PART IN BUILDING THIS COUNTRY, THEY SHED NO BLOOD FOR AMERICA, THESE ARE RECENT IMMIGRANTS THAT HAVE OUR HARD FOUGHT LIBERTY HANDED TO THEM FREELY.

ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS, ALL THEY POWERFUL EMPIRES OF THE WORLD , GOD CRUSHED THAT TURNED THEIR BACK AND DENIED GOD, SO IF WE ARE A GOD FEARING NATION, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAD BETTER HEED GOD'S WORD, IN SHORT, THE DEVIL IS OUT TO DESTROY GOD'S PEOPLE, BEST WE RETALIATE STRONGLY AND PRESERVE OUR HERITAGE AND FREEDOM WE SO PROUDLY LOVE, AND GIVE OUR ANCESTORS AND GOD THE PROPER RESPECT DUE THEM. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. DIVIDE AND CONQUER IS THE DEVIL'S TRADEMARK.

SPEAKING OF THE DEVIL, I MIGHT AS WELL SAY A WORD OR TWO ABOUT HIM, THE DEVIL'S INFLUENCE IS ALWAYS PRESENT IN OUR LIFE, HE LOOKS OVER YOUR SHOULDER CONSTANTLY, AGAIN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS TO SAVE US AND THE AGREEMENT REMAINED THAT WE MAY HAVE A CHOICE TO FOLLOW GOD OR THE DEVIL, THAT BEGAN WITH ADAM AND EVE. MAN IS THE ONLY CREATURE ON EARTH THAT HAS A BRAIN TO MAKE A CHOICE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL,

THEN THE ATHEIST THEORY ABOUT LIFE AND ITS BEGINNINGS DON'T HAVE ANY MERIT THAT WE ARE A BUNCH OF MONKEYS, THEY , THE ATHEIST HAVE MADE MONKEYS OF THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE THE BRAINS TO KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG.

OK, THE DEVIL FACTOR IS SIMPLY TO CONVINCE YOU TO BE BAD, DESTROY YOUR CHANCES OF GOING TO HEAVEN, AND BELIEVE ME DEVIL WORSHIPPERS DON'T EVEN GET A CHANCE TO PEEK IN THE PEARLY GATES, AND WHEN THEY DIE, THEIR SOUL LIVES IN AGONY AND TORMENT THROUGHOUT ETERNITY, JUST BEING AN ATHEIST WILL PUT YOU IN HELL FOREVER, YOU HAVE DISOWNED GOD ACTUALLY, THEY WOULD WELCOME THEIR SOUL TO DIE TO HAVE PEACE AND REST, BUT THAT IS THE PRICE YOU PAY FOR WORSHIPPING THE DEVIL, ETERNAL HELL. 

THE FACT IS SIMPLY THIS, OUT OF EVERY GROUP THE DEVIL'S INFLUENCE IS ALWAYS PRESENT, THE DEVIL IS A PREDATOR, HE CAN SPOT THE WORTHLESS ONES THAT ARE LOOKING FOR EVERYTHING FOR NOTHING, OR TROUBLEMAKERS, THEN HE STAYS WITH THEM CONSTANTLY, ENCOURAGING THEM TO STEAL, DO BAD THINGS AS DESTROYING PROPERTY AND AS THEY PROGRESS, MURDER. YOU SEE, ITS REALLY SIMPLE, MONEY HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, SO THEY STEAL SOMEONE'S MONEY, OR VALUABLES, THE DEVIL IS WHISPERING IN YOUR EAR, GOOD JOB. 

SEE HOW EASY IT IS, THE DEVIL WORKS WITH YOU, GIVES YOU ALL THE GLORY YOU WANT TO CELEBRATE EVIL, THEN WHEN YOU HAVE DONE ENOUGH BAD, KILL FOR MONEY TO BUY DOPE OR WHATEVER, WHEN YOU CANNOT TURN BACK, WHAMMY, YOUR ILLUSTRIOUS WORLD FALLS APART, ALL THE SHINE AND GLORY IS GONE, THE DEVIL ABANDONS YOU, HE HAS YOU HOOKED SUCKER, HE WILL DROP BY WHEN YOU DIE IN PRISON, OR EXECUTED TO CLAIM YOUR SOUL, BECAUSE YOU ARE HEADED STRAIGHT TO HELL. SO, WHEN A PERSON THINKS ABOUT STEALING OR WHATEVER, ALWAYS REMEMBER, SOMEONE IS WATCHING YOU, NO, TWO PEOPLE ARE WATCHING YOU, THE DEVIL AND GOD'S ANGEL WITH HER NOTEBOOK OF YOUR LIFE TO BE PRESENTED TO GOD ON JUDGEMENT DAY.

ADDED NOTE: THE DEVIL: HIS NAME IS LUCIFER, HE WAS GOD'S RIGHT HAND MAN, AN ARCH ANGEL, THEN THE POWER WENT TO HIS HEAD, HE GAVE GOD A LOT OF PROBLEMS, AND ALSO TRIED TO RULE GOD, GOD THREW LUCIFER OUT OF HEAVEN BECAUSE LUCIFER DID NOT REPENT AND STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT, SO NOW YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT THE DEVIL.

IT'S YOUR CHOICE, CHOOSE WISELY, I AM GIVING YOU THE BENEFIT OF MY WISDOM, I FELT THE NEED TO POINT THIS OUT, ITS FATHER'S DAY, ITS ALSO SUNDAY, GOD'S DAY, IT'S JUST PROPER TO HONOR OUR GOD ON THE SABBATH AND DO HIS PREACHING'S, SPREAD THE WORD, MAYBE SOMEONE NEEDS A LITTLE PUSH IN GOD'S DIRECTION. BESIDES, I HAVE BEEN ONE OF GOD'S LITTLE HELPERS FOR MANY YEARS, I AM A RECRUITER IN GOD'S CHRISTIAN ARMY.

AS A YOUNGSTER IF YOU TOOK SOMEONE TO SUNDAY SCHOOL, YOU GOT A GOLD STAR, I LOOKED LIKE A GENERAL WITH ALL THEM GOLD STARS, WELL, I WAS IN GOD'S ARMY, WE SANG ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS EVERY SUNDAY. GOING TO CHURCH IS THE HIGHEST HONOR YOU WILL RECEIVE, SUNDAY IS THE SABBATH, GOD'S SPECIAL DAY OF REST, NOT ONLY FOR GOD, BUT FOR YOU, ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY, ALSO RESPECT FOR GOD BY ATTENDING CHURCH IS THE HIGHEST HONOR YOU CAN BESTOW ON OUR LORD, AS YOU ARE WITNESSING IN FRONT OF OTHERS, DECLARING YOURSELF , YOUR LOVE AND DEVOTION FOR YOUR LORD, YOUR CREATOR. GOOD FELLOWSHIP, SPIRITUAL CLEANSING, SOUL SEARCHING, THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER, STAYS TOGETHER.  HAVE A GREAT DAY.

GOD BLESS AMERICA UNDER GOD.

WROTE BY ARNOLD
June 15, 2003