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Dr. Phillips Grilling

Dr. Phillips Grilling
Iowa State Fair Pork Tent Pork Producers Assn

Mary Beth Phillips at Pork Tent

Mary Beth Phillips at Pork Tent
Iowa State Fair Pork Producers Assn

Dr. Phillips on Police Harley

Dr. Phillips on Police Harley
Bandana Barbeque Springfield Missouri

A Great Farm Family, The John Preussner of Iowa

A Great Farm Family, The John Preussner of Iowa
John, Julie, Ellie, Will and Luke

Thursday, June 11, 2009

John Kennedy, Independence Day Address, 1946

WE STAND TODAY IN THE SHADOW OF HISTORY, IN THE VERY CRADLE OF LIBERTY. OUR GOVERNMENT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ESSENTIAL RELIGIOUS ELEMENT OF INTEGRITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL, AND THE INDIVIDUALISTIC ELEMENT. A FIXED REGARD FOR THE PRINCIPLE, THE CONVICTION THAT OUR EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE LORD, THAT RIGHT IS RIGHT AND WRONG IS WRONG. THIS IDEALISM LED TO THE CIVIL WAR, WORLD WAR I & II, AND THE ULTIMATE FULFILLMENT OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.

REMEMBERING THE PATRIOTIC ELEMENT, LOVE OF COUNTRY AND WHEREVER FREEDOM HAS BEEN IN DANGER, AMERICANS WITH A DEEP SENSE OF PATRIOTISM HAVE BEEN WILLING TO STAND AT ARMAGEDDON AND STRIKE A BLOW FOR LIBERTY AND THE LORD.

MINDFUL OF THE INDIVIDUALISTIC ELEMENT, THE RIGHT OF THE INDIVIDUAL AGAINST THE STATE HAS ALWAYS BEEN OUR MOST CHERISHED PRINCIPLE. THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION HAS SET DOWN FOR ALL MEN TO SEE THE ESSENTIALLY AMERICAN PRINCIPLE THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN RIGHTS HELD BY EVERY PERSON WHICH NO GOVERNMENT AND NO MAJORITY, HOWEVER POWERFUL, CAN DENY.