If it is true words mean things, consider the following: patriot, one who places culture, interests, and security of their country before and above all other countries.

Internationalist, break word down: inter-nation-al among equal nations, internationalist one who considers their nation as equal among other nations.

Types of internationalists: unethical capitalists, liberal democrats, socialists, and ideological fascists.

Unethical capitalists can include: those supporting international trade profits before national security. Like some Republicans defending porous borders and using cheap labor to destroy America’s domestic manufacturing base and private sector middle class.

Most legacies are determined by single issues or events. Consider the case of a good neighbor known as a devoted husband, concerned parent, honest businessman, community leader, and church supporter.

Only one problem with this individual’s legacy, he liked molesting other people’s children.

Much of the celebrationing about defeating 2007 Amnesty Legislation is premature since internationalists efforts will be made to include parts of their America last policies as add-ons to other non-related legislation.

We know the problems caused by unpatriotic internationalists, let me remind you of accomplishments of one patriot.

“Nathan’s Faith”: There are two kinds of faith, one requires constant work while the other is received as a sacred gift. Faith for most people simply means passive absence of doubt Active faith manifest no fear of death, and is best left to patriots who consign their lives to serving God or country.

Nathan was born on June sixth of fifty-five. His home schooling included respect for religious teachings. He entered Yale at the age of fourteen with future interests in ministry and devotion for service to country.

While attending a town hall meeting, shortly after entering college, Nathan blurted out “let us never lay down our arms till we have achieved Independence!”

Nathan’s use of the word “Independence” stunned those attending the meeting. Audience members asked, “Where had this boy learned that new word, a word not found in Shakespeare, Spenser, or Bacon?” The only prior reference having been “Independents of England.”

Barely out of college, Nathan resigned his teaching position and enlisted in Webb’s Seventh Regiment The young man’s skills caused him to be promoted to lieutenant on September first’ followed by a promotion to captain two weeks later.

Nathan’s continued successes on dangerous missions earned his commander’s respect.

At an officer’s staff meeting seeking volunteers for a behind the line assignment to learn enemy future plans; the senior captain protested “We are willing to be shot for our country but not hung for our country.”

Still pale from physical illness, the youngest captain, who as a child created the word independence, destroyed the silence with these words “If my country demands a peculiar service, its claims are imperious.”

Several weeks later while pretending to be a school master, Nathan was captured by the enemy after his own contact failed to answer his pre arranged signal and abandoned Nathan to the enemy.

Nathan’s fate was sealed when the enemy found him to be in possession of notes written in Latin detailing the enemy’s most precious secrets.

One of the enemy officers asked his commander if Nathan should be physically tortured to determine how the prisoner breached their perimeter.

The commander’s response, “I can tell from the prisoner’s eyes that he would never talk; why torture him and show our troops an example of rebel courage? Try him and execute him at sunrise.”

Nathan spent his time before and during the trial writing letters to family and friends. When the enemy commander was asked for permission to mail Nathan’s final letters, he ordered that the letters be burned in Nathan’s presence.

The commander’s explanation “The rebels shall not know they have a man who can die so bravely.”

Nathan requested in lieu of a last meal that he be allowed to read from his bible. The enemy commander’s response “Give him neither, let him die with both an empty stomach and empty soul.”

Shortly before sunrise while being led to the gallows, Nathan respectfully asked the enemy commander if he might say a few words before his execution.

The enemy commander spoofed, “why not, what could a spy on an empty stomach, with an empty soul, possibly say that would ever be worth repeating?”

Nathan silenced the festive gallows crowd as he confidently without help climbed all thirteen steps, and then without hesitation proceeded to precisely stride to the front of the waiting noose.

After neither rushing or pausing, the child who created the word independence spoke these final words “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”

Let us never forget that the last word spoken by Nathan Hale, a patriot blessed with sacred faith, was country not government.

July Fourth Celebrates Country.