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Audacity, American Audacity

Big Red Car — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:44:26 +0000

God bless America. Today, we celebrate American audacity — the willingness to take bold risks in the face of fatal outcomes. It is a characteristic of a man not all men possess. More than 245 years ago, a handful of American men decided they had had enough preditations from an English king who possessed the […]

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A Fable of Freedom and Hong Kong

Big Red Car — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 07:17:59 +0000

There are men who have never known freedom. It is not their fault, but nonetheless they have never seen it in its naked splendor or glory, never tasted its intoxicating headiness, never smelled its exhilarating scent, never felt it settle joyfully upon their expanding minds, never felt its bubbles tickling their their nose telling them […]

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11 September 2001 — FREEDOM

Big Red Car — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:07:56 +0000

Big Red Car here on the sixteenth anniversary of one of the worst days in the history of the United States of America. It ranks with Pearl Harbor in the minds of Americans. That day triggered what has been a continuous war on terror which took the US into a new phase in the history […]

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Jessica A Ellis, Combat Medic

Big Red Car — Fri, 12 May 2017 16:51:49 +0000

Jessica A Ellis was a combat medic who was killed in Iraq on Mother’s Day 2008. Sunday is Mother’s Day. It made me think of her. May 29, Monday, is Memorial Day. I will think of her again. On Sunday, I want you to take a second and think about the price of freedom and […]

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Honoring America’s War Dead

Big Red Car — Mon, 27 May 2013 12:36:01 +0000

Big Red Car here. Cloudy, bit drippy and generally not “top down” weather. Likely reminds veterans of some of their worst days. Today is Memorial Day — the day upon which America honors its war dead. It is a sad occasion. It is very sad to contemplate all of those lost lives in defense of […]

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