Heroes For Freedom | Patriotic, Conservatives, Christians, Families, Heroes, WW1, WW2, Revolutionary War

As an orphan in the 1930s, Francis (Frank) Sherman Currey often stared across the Hudson River at the US Military Academy at West Point standing high on the hills overlooking the river.

As he watched the men march, he longed to join with them, to be accepted into this prestigious institution. Still, he knew that because of his poor, disadvantaged life, such a dream could never be achieved.

But this was no ordinary boy. Francis ...

Crouched deep underground within the bowels of the massive building, inhaling putrid air without complaint, and in the meager light of a single candle, the Union prisoners worked with a purpose.

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Among them was LIEUTENANT JACOB MERRITT, just twenty-three-years-old.

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Jacob lay on his belly in the cramped tunnel, chipping at the earthen wall, the opening just twenty inches wide. The tunnel began in the new kitchen.

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The prisoners ...

Elizabeth Van Lew was determined Richmond would fall, the sooner the better.

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Beneath her basket of groceries were secret Union dispatches written skillfully in invisible ink, folded innocuously like bookmarks between sheets of household shopping accounts.

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Two Confederate soldiers strolled past, rifles slung lazily across their shoulders.

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The soldiers tipped their hats and moved on, unsuspecting that the well-known local woman...

Morning of September 10, 1813. The British naval squadron under Commander Robert Harriet Barclay, advanced with the confidence and skill of the world’s most powerful navy.

Facing them that day was a young American naval officer just *27-years-old*... Oliver Hazard Perry.

As the two fleets closed distance near Put-In-Bay, Ohio, Commander Perry’s men braced themselves.

Most were farmers and frontiersmen. Many were boys. Almost ...

The Enlightenment is often painted as an age when cold science triumphed over devotion to God.

This message of today’s Secular-Progressive World is anything but true.

Many of the greatest minds of that age were men whose Christian faith shaped their scientific genius.

They did not see their work as dismantling God’s place in the cosmos but where the veil of creation was peeled back just enough for these men to glimpse the cra...

Helmuth Gunther Hubener grew up in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power. Helmuth was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes called “Mormons.”

Helmuth could see that his beloved Germany was being destroyed systematically from within. He and his friends felt compelled to tell the people of Germany what was really going on.

So, with a borrowed typewriter, they produced short pamphlets and passed th...

We admire Charlie Kirk. He sacrificed himself for his faith.

Two thousand years ago, shortly after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, a young disciple by the name of Stephen, also spoke for truth and willingly gave his life for the faith.

Both Stephen and Charlie Kirk were young and exceptionally dedicated to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Both spoke truth in the public forum before all who would listen. And in the end, we know, bot...

Stephen Collins Foster was the creator and author of what many call the American Soundtrack.

We were a young nation at the time, a divided nation, an angry nation. The tunes that escaped his troubled heart offered hope at a time when many thought the United States would fracture and fall.

His music captured America’s sorrows, but also its joys and beauties. His work revealed the mighty paradox in the American soul. One that, in...

That night in Washington, D.C., towards dawn, Julia Ward Howe could not sleep, so she arose and sat at a nearby writing desk.

She related this pivotal event later:

“I awoke in the early morning twilight; and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of a poem began to twine themselves into my mind. Having thought out all the stanzas, I said to myself, ‘I must get up and write these verses down, lest I fall asleep again and ...

That critical summer of 1787 the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were on the path to failing miserably.

For a month the delegates had argued over a forgettable list of ego-driven proposals, accomplishing nothing.

Benjamin Franklin spoke addressing the head of the Congress:

“I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. …...

The Battle of Yorktown raged.

A battle that would decide if the new, young United States of America would survive.

Our hero that day, (October 10, 1781), would lead a desperate assault on the British forward position known as Redoubt #10. In bloody hand-to-hand combat, he and his devoted men turned the tide of battle and won one of the greatest victories in American history.

His name was Alexander Hamilton. And odds were that...

*MY 3 FAVORITE MOVIES FOR SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH*

THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963): What impresses me most about The Great Escape are the many examples of resilience and loyalty shown by these desperate men. The Great Escape is the opportunity for modern, pampered, well-fed American audiences, people like myself, to see what The Greatest Generation accomplished under hopeless conditions. In my mind, you will not find a better true story about ...

President Abraham Lincoln, when meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe for the first time was reported to have said to her, with a twinkle in his eyes: “So you’re the little lady who started this great war.”

And she did, writing the first million-plus selling American novel—UNCLE TOM'S CABIN—about a kind and Christ-like slave named “Tom,” the novel showing graphically the brutalities of slavery during the harsh days of the Fugitive Slave ...

Too often today the Alamo is depicted as a bunch of American white-supremacists who oppressed the local population, hoping to “steal Mexican lands.”

This is tiring, simplistic, and woefully unfair. History rewritten.

Settlers in Texas were promised freedom and independence by the Mexican Government. In the spring of 1836, those who fortified the Alamo against the dictator General Santa Anna were patriots, many born and raised i...

On the Pennsylvanian shore of the Delaware River, Washington conceived a desperate plan—to cross back over the river into New Jersey and attack a Hessian garrison of 1,200 men. The Hessians were German mercenaries fighting for the British.

Throughout that frigid night, Glover and his Marbleheaders rowed Washington’s Army across the ice-choked river, thought to be an impossible feat and attacked the Hessian Garrison, killing 100 a...

John Glover and his Marblehead Mariners, with seemingly impossible stealth, evacuated Washington’s entire army, all 9,000 men, across the East River onto Manhattan Island in nine hours during a single night!

How that happened became known as the Miracle of the Fog, for just as the British were preparing to attack, the river and shoreline were blanketed in a thick fog that “came out of nowhere” so that “men could not see ten feet ...

John Glover and his Marblehead Mariners, with seemingly impossible stealth, evacuated Washington’s entire army, all 9,000 men, across the East River onto Manhattan Island in nine miraculous hours during a SINGLE night!

But it would never have happened without one often ignored event which I see as nothing short of divine intervention. For just as the British were preparing to attack, the river and shores were quickly blanketed in...

Most Americans do not know that Abraham Lincoln, when elected president, went from “apostate to prophet” all in those critical four years of the Civil War.

And helping along his miraculous conversion was a humble, yet highly capable, Army nurse by the name of Rebecca Pomroy.

What she was able to accomplish with the Lincoln Family in the White House that dreadful winter of 1862 changed the course of history.

This is the often-...

We have reached a milestone in America’s beloved past. The 249th and 250th year anniversary of this grand experiment in republicanism, in self-government, but mostly in individual freedom.

But, ironically, as of late, we are facing the gravest challenge we have ever faced. And the danger, tragically, is coming from...