So this weekend I am the Shoot Boss for a Project Appleseed Marksmanship Clinic in Charlotte. One of the Instructors in Training is completing his final Under-Instruction Shoot before taking his Red Hat and Full Instructor Status with the program.
For those of you who have never attended an Appleseed, I highly recommend you do so - not because we get paid (we're an all volunteer organization) but because the mission of Appleseed is important, especially today, when common ground seems elusive, and looking around it seems like the important question is "Where are we going? And why are we in this handbasket?"
Part of his duties this weekend was relating 2/3rds of the history portion taught at Appleseed - and I was absolutely blown away by the way he did it.
Awe-struck, even - even though I have told the same history time and time again for years - it hit me as hard as the first time I heard it, way back in 2012. It's a story most of you probably don't know, but a story every American should hear.
I even told him I was recording it next time and stealing it - it was that good. So he pointed me to his source, which is the video below.
After teaching history and marksmanship all day, hearing this same story, I listened to it on the way home....all hour and a half of it.
THIS is why you stand for our Rights and Liberty.
THESE were the fateful decisions - decisions of huge consequence - that were made by farmers, shopkeepers, blacksmiths, and silversmiths.....people just like you, and like me.
People that arguably had more pressing things to do,more important places to be.
Excuses NOT to stand.
Just like every single on of us here.
This video is the best I have seen in a long, long time. It's a LibertySeed in Indiana (basically an Appleseed with no shooting instruction). Give it a watch, and see if history doesn't rhyme.
Then make a choice.
Enjoy.
For those of you who have never attended an Appleseed, I highly recommend you do so - not because we get paid (we're an all volunteer organization) but because the mission of Appleseed is important, especially today, when common ground seems elusive, and looking around it seems like the important question is "Where are we going? And why are we in this handbasket?"
Part of his duties this weekend was relating 2/3rds of the history portion taught at Appleseed - and I was absolutely blown away by the way he did it.
Awe-struck, even - even though I have told the same history time and time again for years - it hit me as hard as the first time I heard it, way back in 2012. It's a story most of you probably don't know, but a story every American should hear.
I even told him I was recording it next time and stealing it - it was that good. So he pointed me to his source, which is the video below.
After teaching history and marksmanship all day, hearing this same story, I listened to it on the way home....all hour and a half of it.
THIS is why you stand for our Rights and Liberty.
THESE were the fateful decisions - decisions of huge consequence - that were made by farmers, shopkeepers, blacksmiths, and silversmiths.....people just like you, and like me.
People that arguably had more pressing things to do,more important places to be.
Excuses NOT to stand.
Just like every single on of us here.
This video is the best I have seen in a long, long time. It's a LibertySeed in Indiana (basically an Appleseed with no shooting instruction). Give it a watch, and see if history doesn't rhyme.
Then make a choice.
Enjoy.
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