It’s Christmas Eve a few years back and I’m shopping for presents for my wife and kids in a Flying J truck stop near Idaho Falls, Idaho, choosing among an array of camo hoodies, American eagle-themed insulated cups, Duck Dynasty ball caps, saw-back hunting knives, and heavy-duty jumper cables. Poor holiday planning has put me in a jam. . .

It’s ten at night and six degrees when I reach the alpine forest. With my high beams switched on, all alone on the dark road, I cruise along and look for a good spot to park on the shoulder and launch my hunt. No spot appears much better than any other, so I pull off at random and search inside my car for gloves or mittens and a winter hat.

No luck; I didn’t need them in California. I decide this is fine because I shouldn’t be out long. I unfold the saw and zip up my light coat and step out into the powdery new snow. It’s packed flat near the car, but once I enter the woods it reaches almost to my knees.

The profusion of suitable trees I expected isn’t evident at first. Some are the proper height but lack girth. Others have girth but are only three feet tall. Most are ten feet tall, or taller, and block the pale trickle of moonlight as I trudge on.

Up ahead, I discern a promising candidate, but when I walk up beside it and examine it, I discover it has no boughs on its backside. Luckily, there’s a nicer one further on, so I head off in its direction. By now I’m suppressing shivers, and my sneakers – canvas; I put them on when I left Malibu — are icy stiff and hard to lift. And the tree turns out to be ugly. Hideous. (Read more from “What Happened When I Decided to Get My Tree From the Mountains on Christmas Eve” HERE)

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American Patriots repeatedly demonstrated their desire to be free from the foreign domination of the foreign power Great Britain by sacrificing all to establish the Republic.

After a series of defeats that had soldiers deserting the cause, the Continental Army stood on the verge of losing the Revolutionary War. Prior to the 2500 remaining members of the Continental Army departed to engage the Hessian Troops, General George Washington read the following from Thomas Paine to them:

“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

— Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, December 19, 1776–

On Christmas night, wearing his full dress uniform because he didn’t expect to survive the engagement, its Commander, General George Washington led 2,500 Constitutional troops across the frozen Delaware River, sneaking them into Trenton, New Jersey which was being held by Hessian German soldiers, and he launched a surprise attack in the early morning hours of December 26, that would lead to a decisive victory, and winning that engagement changed the course of the war.

Today’s “Sunshine Patriots”, the Socialist Democrats, elected to Congress are allowing the occupant of the Oval Office to help another foreign power, Communist China, to get in a position to eliminate the “Freedoms” for all Americans, as outlined in the US Constitution, using the Wuhan Virus to try to control, to suppress the population, and slowly take over the Republic without firing a shot.

American Patriots must resist and fight back in their own individual ways in the coming year.

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