Stanley Denham, Cpt., USN
Posted by: Timothy Denham
This "wreath of honor" is an annual token of "remembrance" for so many "Brothers" and "Sisters", during this most Sacred Celebrated Season, who were blessed to share their youthful days, along with other American Family members who served together in our nation's military, many giving or to give their ultimate sacrifice. These "Brothers" and "Sisters" are always in our hearts and thoughts and especially at "Christmas", remembering those many "Holy Seasons" when our Brother or Sister helped us decorate the tree and share our gifts on Christmas Mornings, commemorating "His Ultimate Gift" which was, and is, and always will be, the "Nucleus Seed" which grew into this world's "only" successful "Constitutionally bound" Self-Governing "Republic of States" where, since 1789, (with cautiously "few" approved Amendments), its "people" regularly elect representatives under that "Authentic" Constitution, judging all citizens and actions equally under that Constitution! What we're bringing to remembrance here, albeit painfully in our generation, are the words quoted by our nation's 2nd President of the United States, "John Adams", who stated: "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and *religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a "Whale goes through a Net". "Our Constitution was made ONLY for a moral and *religious people." "It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." * { "religion" and/or "religious" only meant "Christianity" at the time of our nation's founding and John Adam's (1735-1826) }. Merry Christmas!