Protest Now
"To carry forward the work of creation in a disintegrating society,
some alternative channel must be found."
—Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History. 1972 Abridged Edition (228).
Resign Now
Impeach Now
25th Amendment Now
I’m Frederick Glaysher, an American, first and foremost, and an epic poet, rhapsode, and poet-critic.
These are the facts about my life that drive me forward here today. My German Stock forebears settled on the Pennsylvania frontier in the early 1750s, soon temporarily displaced by the French and Indian War, with a few scalped and massacred in 1781. Four sons of Johan Melchoir Stock served in the Revolutionary War, one a fifer.
Two Mickleys, of Huguenot Michelet lineage from Metz, Lorraine, France, served throughout the Revolutionary War, one a fifer, both among the troops that entered Union Square, NYC, with George Washington. Lieutenant John Jacob Mickley helped save the Liberty Bell from being melted down by the British in September 1777.
George Stuck fought in the War of 1812 at Chippewa and the Battle of Fort Erie, helping to drive the troops of the British king out of America once again.
Benjamin McCalla fought for the Union during the Civil War. Glayshers from Hampshire and Surrey, England, fought and died in WW I. Benjamin Franklin Stuck lost a leg fighting in Italy at the battle of the Gothic Line in WW II.
With all humility, many, many millions of Americans have ancestors like mine, many more prominent and illustrious. The phenomenal PBS programs of Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates powerfully remind us who we Americans are. Our ancestors did not suffer and die in vain, for our Democracy to end in oligarchy and tyranny. We owe it to them, ourselves, our children, and the future of this great country to protect Democracy and civil order...
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