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Feb 21, 2023Liked by Frederick R Smith

Your work is so inspiring and this no less so. Figures like Betsy Ross were heroic. We work to defeat and demean the history of our heroes at our peril.

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THANKS, and big ranchers drove them out, and bought the land. Equivalent to Big Ag today.

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On top of closures. digital money driven. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/the-layoff-tsunami-has-begun-50-of-u-s-companies-plan-to-eliminate-jobs-within-the-next-12-months/

My grocery store trip looked liked post lock down. Empty shelves. Except the HEARING DESTRUCTION MUSIC IS NOW KROGER HQ CONTROLLED. This little town of 7K has one grocery store, nothing else can really compete with. But if they are all like this, I'll have to go into my reserves much sooner than planned. I can't afford to go DEAF! To old for a Cochlear Implant, takes a few years to learn to use, ins doesn't cover it and $90K is out of financial reach. I'm the main driver. No services out here in the boonies. Spotty WiFi, trying to drive you to 5 G global.

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Great job enlightening us. If people knew more about our Founders and the other people in our history like Betsy Ross they would begin to appreciate what was given to them and how much it cost. Then get off their asses and do something to keep it!

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Betsy Ross is well known, or so we thought. my friend Frederick R. Smith is a historic storyteller. I hope you will find this chapter on the Women of the Revolutionary War fascinating and moving, and learn things we were not taught. There is much, much more to Betsy Ross than a simple seamstress who was chosen to make our New Nation's first Flag. But Fredrick brings it up today with his story. Be sure to watch the Videos. His first three chapters started on the 4th of July, Independence Day. I asks what role did women play, as they were varied and often dangerous. He chose Betsy Ross as his first Woman of the Revolutionary War. ENJOY!

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Aug 24, 2022Liked by Frederick R Smith

The flag and our country mean so much to me. I fly it proudly on my front lawn. I appreciate the in depth history and the time you took to write this essay. I always get chills when they play the anthem and the flag gets raised with an Olympic gold and especially when Jim McKay was the broadcaster. Don’t think it means the same to some of the athletes. 🥲

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Timely, beautifully moving, and informative.

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