Slide 1: Francis Scott Key, inspired by the sight of the American Flag after the battle at Fort McHenry. Francis Scott Key’s composition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” written following the British attack on Baltimore Harbor, just three weeks after the assault on the capital. NOTES: John Page to Thomas Jefferson on July 20, 1776 John Page graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1763, where he was a fried and closest college classmate of Thomas Jefferson, and a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1776. he would later become Virginias 13th Governor. “We know the Race is not to the swift nor the Battle to the strong. Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?” Slide 2: On April 19, 1775, Captain John Parker along with another 80 Militiamen many of who were veterans of fighting the French and Indians faced 240 British regulars at Lexington Green at approximately 6 am. First shot. British rampage and on to Concord. Bedford, Brookline, Sudbury, Medfield, Salem, Pepperell, Hollis, Prescott, Groton. Acton. 30 year old CPT Isaac Davis kissed his wife Hannah and three children. Take good care of the children – and he was off. 9am on the bridge Pictures CPT Isaac Davis (symbol of patriotism as the Minute Man) shot at Concord Bridge by the British.

Slide 3: Young George Washington June 14, 1775 the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army for the purposes of a common defense adopting the forces in Boston 22K and New York 5K June 14, 1775 the Second Continental Congress appointed 44 year old George Washington as Commander and Chief June 1775 Bunker Hill August 27, 1776 Battle of Long Island, New York Fall of 1776

Trenton December 25, 1776 British surrender October 19, 1781 Picture: Washington crossing the Delaware

Slide 5: Alamo Next 100 years isolation defining who we are as a nation with skirmishes against other nations, Spanish, Britain, Mexico, and ourselves.

Slide 6: Second industrial Revolution beckoned us to enter the global economic engine Railroads, large scale iron and steel production, machinery in manufacturing greatly increased steam power, telegraph petroleum and the beginning of electrification. The expansion of rail and telegraph allowed for the unprecedented movement of people and ideas culminating in a new wave of globalization.

WW1 5MM Fox Conner

WWII 16MM Korea 6MM Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton

Vietnam 7 MM Desert Storm 2-3 MM GWOT 4-7 MM 190,000 MS Soldiers are our ambassadors Pictures: Desert Storm

Chief of Staff, Joint Chiefs gave an address in 2016 at AUSA as Chief of Staff of the Army. If you have any reservation about the leadership and its vision of our military forces, you should watch this speech. “Nations not armies go to war.” Gen. Mark Milley

July 4th 1776 remains our foundation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; endowed by their creator with certain invaluable rights and that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.   George Bush’s second inauguration. We are not this story’s author. He fills time and eternity with his purpose. Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another….and an angel surely rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm