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I've been tardy in extending congratulations to my old friend Jim Camp's new job a communications director for the Department of Fish and Game (maybe I can get a more precise head's up on trout plantings), as already noted on Total Buzz, FlashReport and Red County/San Bernardino.
One of the strangest things about the announcement was seeing Jimmy referred to as "James Camp." It sounded almost unnatural.
Jimmy sent this e-mail out yesterday, written in inimitable Jim Camp style:
In my opinion, few, if any, Americans could convey the poignancy and meaning of the sacrifice of our fallen American men-at-arms better than Abraham Lincoln. So on this Memorial Day, in tribute to the men and women who "gave the last full measure of devotion" in defense of nation and liberty, I'll let President Lincoln's words do the memorializing:
LETTER TO MRS. BIXBY
Executive Mansion, Washington, November 21, 1864.
Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts:
DEAR MADAM:
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
Abraham Lincoln.
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
This came over the transom this morning from faithful reader/commenter Andy Favor:
Dear Friends,
Please join me and the Young Executives of America in welcoming world renowned economist, Jose Piñera, to Orange County. Mr. Piñera is the man that privatized social security in Chile. His insights are important for us to hear as we struggle to find ways to reform the failing social security program in our own country.
Continue reading "YEA Hosting Architect Of Chile's Successful Social Security Privatization" »
Accompanied by his daughter and his lovely wife, Callista, Newt Gingrich made his sixth visit to the Richard Nixon Library as the latest stop in his national book tour.
The former Speaker spoke to a packed house of passionate political enthusiasts and history buffs inside the East Room, a grand ballroom modeled after the East Room in the White House. Preceding the event was an intimate VIP reception for friends, family, and long time associates of former President Nixon.
Gingrich’s presentation focused on drawing parallels between the challenges faced by the modern day American civilization and those of civilizations past. He reinforced many of his arguments made during his recent conversation with Red County and broadly outlined solutions on national security, immigration, healthcare, education, and energy. As both a student and professor of history, Gingrich offers three valuable lessons: 1.) Intelligence can fail, 2.) You may not understand the culture of your opponent, and 3.) Technology matters
In his latest book, Pearl Harbor, Gingrich and co-author William R. Forstchen detail pre-WWII Japanese culture and give insight into the mindset of Japanese leadership. In the final chapters of the book, the authors provide an “alternative ending” which theorizes what might have happened had key events unfolded differently.
This morning, Gingrich and company are flying to Hawaii to participate in an event with Sean Hannity and Oliver North at Pearl Harbor.
