Wayne Leeper's Blog – April 2010 Archive (3)

It’s difficult to assign a date or a single event as being the beginning of the decline of American values. While some claim it can be traced back to New Deal socialist policies enacted as an unsuccessful means of fighting the Great Depression, others point to the 60’s and the vast changes which began…

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Just eleven years after the end of the Civil War, America celebrated her first centennial. France had intended to give a statue to America in recognition of the friendship between the two nations which had been established during the Revolutionary war. For various reasons the statue was almost ten years…

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In 1812 the British determined to retake America and the United States was forced into a second war with England. On August 24, 1814 British forces fought their way into Washington, D.C. with the intent of totally destroying the new capital of the United States. By evening the capital was swarming with redcoats. The main buildings of the U.S. government were in flames, set ablaze by British torches. The British then moved on to the President’s House. The soldiers left the house in shambles. As… Continue