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Started by 209Ken, March 25, 2012, 10:07:10 PM

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209Ken

March 25, 2012, 10:07:10 PM
I've been wanting to post this for several weeks, and I am just now getting the chance. I wanted to let you Appleseed instructors know that you ARE making a difference.
My son who is a freshman in high school is in a class where they are required to do 4 projects and/or reports a year on pretty much any topic they choose. One of his reports earlier this year was on the battle of Lexington and Concord and how marksmanship was a factor in the outcome. I could not have been more proud! He chose this topic completely on his own and I didn't even know he was doing it until he asked for my copy of Paul Revere's Ride. (Although I did take him and my daughter to 3 Appleseeds in 2011).
So just to let you know, kids are not zoning out during the history portion, kids are listening, and they get it. Your passion for what you do comes through. Thank you!

By the way, he got an A on his report.  :)

209ken
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln

Josey Wales

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March 25, 2012, 10:21:03 PM
..Great News!!   ..Thank You for sharing this reassuring news..  O0 O0 O0..

......Strength & Honor............Josey Wales....................
..to hell with them fellows, buzzards gotta eat same as worms..

GEmanuel

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March 25, 2012, 10:29:47 PM
Ken, Your son sounds like a 21st century Jonathan Harrington, Jr. Well done young man, well done indeed!
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." — George Washington

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." --Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." ~ Thomas Paine

Unbridled Liberty

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March 25, 2012, 11:04:37 PM
Ken,

Thank you for taking the time to post this, it means a lot to us.  And congratulations to your son.  And thanks to you for taking your kids to those shoots!

UL
For Liberty, each Freeman Strives
As its a Gift of God
And for it willing yield their Lives
And Seal it with their Blood

Thrice happy they who thus resign
Into the peacefull Grave
Much better there, in Death Confin'd
Than a Surviving Slave

This Motto may adorn their Tombs,
(Let tyrants come and view)
"We rather seek these silent Rooms
Than live as Slaves to You"

Lemuel Haynes, 1775

Foppish Dandy

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March 26, 2012, 01:48:53 AM
That is great to hear! Very encouraging!  ^:)^
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