Week 3 countdown - A New Birth of Freedom - Charlie Kirk and 911

Dear Friends, 

We are doing a 52 week countdown to July 4, 2026, the 250 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.  We missed a few weeks because of political distractions, but we will catch up.  This installment will be special because so much has happened recently.  I emailed this on 9/15/25.  Charlie Kirk was murdered on 9/10/25 and we had the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers the day after.  I think it is really important to talk now about all of these issues because they are related.  This email will have 4 sections:  (1) The American Dream, (2) The Murder of Charlie Kirk, (3) the 24th anniversary of 9/11/2001, and (4) recognizing a pillar of American culture.  These are all important.

The American Dream

We must realize that America is a great country with a great culture.  There are so many things that make America great, but I will focus now on something surprisingly simple:  the 60th anniversary of The Sound of Music.

Joy and hope and idealism are at the heart of the American Dream.  Rodgers and Hammerstein created a work of fiction, based very loosely on history, and after success on Broadway made it into the highest grossing film at its time.  Sixty years later and we are still enjoying it , inspired by the beauty of the Alps and the idealism, joy and hope expressed in the show.

Americans have joy in their hearts!  That is one of the things that makes us great.  And we have the freedom to create a work of fiction like "The Sound of Music."  People following their dreams led to the Wright Brothers creating manned flight and changing history.  We have changed the world by pursuing our dreams, made possible by the liberty we enjoy from our Constitution.

The Murder of Charlie Kirk

Accounts say that the young man who murdered Charlie Kirk came from a good family, but somehow this young man was persuaded that Charlie Kirk was evil and needed to be killed.  There are left wing teachers who go into the schools in order to change the world by indoctrinating our children.  And there are left wing activists who use fear and hatred to manipulate young people in order to create political converts.

The left has been doing this for decades.  Whittaker Chambers described in his 1952 memoir, "Witness," how his brother was told by his college instructors that the world was horrible, so the young man killed himself.  Young people today are fed the same lies and you hear young people say that the world is so bad that they don't want to bring children into this world.  Add to that an unspoken epidemic of mental illness sweeping through the youth of America and it is no wonder we have a crisis.  

Back in 2022 I started a Bible Class called "Christian Awareness" to teach young people to recognize the deception and manipulation used to mislead them.  But tactical politics consumed my time.  Our young people are going into the world defenseless.  They are not coached on how to spot the snares of wicked people.  We need to fix that.

The 9/11 Attack on the Twin Towers

We just had the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attack and after 24 years it seems that our leaders are still refusing to understand what happened back then.    Remember that before 9/11 there were other attacks on the Twin Towers.  The refusal of our leaders to face the problems are documented in books like "Willful Blindness, a Memoir of the Jihad" by Federal Persecutor Andrew C. McCarthy (https://www.amazon.com/Willful-Blindness-Andrew-C-Mccarthy/dp/1594032130/) and in "Catastrophic Failure" by Stephen Coughlin (https://www.amazon.com/Catastrophic-Failure-Blindfolding-America-Jihad/dp/1511617500/).

If you think that it sounds absurd to say that highly educated and successful people turn their backs on reality, let me remind you of Bernie Madoff and the financial collapse he created in spite of numerous warnings, as documented in the book, "No One Would Listen" by Harry Markopolis (https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Would-Listen-Financial/dp/0470919000/).  Maybe by the time the 25th anniversary of 9/11 happens President Trump will get rid of the gatekeepers and manipulators that are stopping him from seeing the unresolved threats from 9/11.  We can only pray and hope.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic - A Pillar of American Culture

On September 14, 2001, in St  Paul's Cathedral in London, the British sang the The Battle Hymn of the Republic in a memorial service to honor the Americans killed on 9/11.  Here it is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmpo0csiIMs

I was driving home from work and when I heard this on the radio -- the British singing this song -- I had to pull off the road, stop and cry.  All the emotions from the 9/11 attack came pouring out in my tears.

Your Assignment for this Week

Here are the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic.  Sing it to yourself!  The deadline is this coming Saturday,

1 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

Refrain:
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

2 I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read the righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on. [Refrain]

3 He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of all before His judgment seat;
O be swift, my soul, to answer Him; be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on. [Refrain]

4 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make us holy, let us die to make men free,
while God is marching on. [Refrain]

Here are Revelation 14:19 - 20

19 So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses’ bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs.

A lot of politicians forget about the wrath of God.

We have a great county and a great culture, but we are under relentless pressure by people who hate the freedoms and liberties God has intended for us, because they hate God as much as they hate the blessing of liberty God has bestowed upon us.  To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

Our hope is in God.

Thank you,

Robert

As a reminder of our previous countdown weeks, I have posted them on the internet:

Week 1 - A New Birth of Freedom
https://texasascendant.blogspot.com/2025/09/week-1-new-birth-of-freedom.html

Week 2 countdown -- A New Birth of Freedom
https://texasascendant.blogspot.com/2025/09/week-2-countdown-new-birth-of-freedom.html