American Pride

DIY 2 Minutes

The Fourth of July is coming up and there are relatively easy and cheap ways to display your American pride!

Tin Can Windsocks

Save some tin cans and spray paint them blue.  Punch 2 holes in the top of the cans and string twine through the holes.  Cut a star shape out of plastic lid (cool whip or butter dish) and use that to stencil the white stars.  Then add tissue paper or construction paper strips in red and white fastened to the inside of the can.

Paper Chain Railing

Cut some red and blue strips out of construction paper to make chains to fasten on a white fence or deck railing.

Doily Banner

For this banner you’ll need doilies from the Dollar Store, spray paint, modpodge and string or twine.  Keep a third of the doilies the original size.  Trim another third of the doilies to be the “middle” size and trim the remaining doilies to the smallest size.  Paint the largest doilies red, leave the middle size white and paint the smallest ones blue.  When they’re dry, cut them in half carefully and modpodge the 3 layers together.  When they’re dry, run the string or twine through the doily holes to string the banner up.  

Clothespin Wreath

Spray paint clothespins red, white and blue and when dry, clamp them onto a wire wreath.  Attach foam stars with glue.  Everything but the spray paint can be obtained from the Dollar Tree.

Painted Lawn Stars

Make a cardboard template and use construction marking paint to make stars on your lawn.  The idea comes from The Concrete Cottage and listed below are answers to frequently asked questions about this project:

Update: This is now my most viewed post and it’s garnered many questions. I’d like to go ahead and answer the three most asked questions here. 
First… This paint is specifically made for using on grass and it will NOT kill the grass. I can personally attest to that fact.
Second… The paint is construction marking paint, it’s intended to be sprayed upside down, and can be found at any home improvement store. 
Third… It dries very quickly and is permanent. It only comes off as the grass grows out and you mow it off.

Balloon Flag

Easy idea for a decoration and a game!  Pegboard makes this easy to do, but the balloons can be taped to any board or wall you have.  (You may not want to use the balloons for darts later on if you are using the side of your house or garage…lol)

The ideas are endless…so let your inner Patriot out and celebrate what’s GREAT about America!!!

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  1. Good morning y’all! Getting ready to go weedeat before it gets hot. Picked Ms. Mama up last night and got to bed just after midnight. Her mission to the Swamp was successful and now she is home from behind enemy lines! 😂 Pat, you must have been a fun mom for your kids. You always have neat crafts or projects. My mom did a lot of crafts and stuff when I was little; decorations, home made play-doh, green eggs and ham…

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    1. Morning CM!
      hope you get all your weedeating chores done before it gets too hot!
      great news about Ms Mama!!
      we had all kinds of fun with the kids! and they both are creative and crafty now!

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        1. That makes me think of Wheatietoo as she had that on the Monday openers after the steal. The flag upside down/country in distress.

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    2. Thank God it’s…JULY!! Take your stupid Pride flag down!!!
      The month of pride for LGBTQXYG and its stupid rainbow flag is now, thankfully, over.

      Time now for 11 months of pride for LGBQFJBWWG1WGA and heartfelt salutes to our Old Glory red, white and blue.

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  16. EXCERPT: “Forty-six of the 50 U.S. states saw a decline in gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2022, newly released federal data shows. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday that only Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire and Vermont bucked the trend with increases in GDP in the first three months of this year.

    Data released earlier this week showed that U.S. GDP decreased by 1.6% overall in the first quarter, but states’ GDPs varied because of a range of factors.
    ———————–
    Meanwhile, the Personal Consumption Expenditure, a key BEA indicator for inflation, showed what other federal inflation markers have shown: higher inflation in the last year.
    ———————–
    “Disposable personal income decreased $58.8 billion (revised), or 1.3 percent, in the first quarter, in contrast to an increase of $72.4 billion, or 1.6 percent, in the fourth quarter,” BEA said. “Real disposable personal income decreased 7.8 percent (revised), compared with a decrease of 4.5 percent. Personal saving was $1.02 trillion in the first quarter (revised), compared with $1.45 trillion in the fourth quarter. The personal saving rate – personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income – was 5.6 percent (revised) in the first quarter, compared with 7.9 percent in the fourth quarter.”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/feds-46-states-saw-gdp-decline-first-quarter-year

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  19. EXCERPT: “Residents of some states may not get their next unemployment checks on time as a vendor cyberattack has shut down their websites.

    The states all do business with Florida-based Geographic Solutions. The company has not posted any information on its social media pages about the cyberattack. A warning page appears when trying to access the company’s webpage.

    Up to 40 states and Washington, D.C. could be affected, according to a news release from the Louisiana Workforce Commission. No personal data was exposed, according to state officials there. But some state residents may get their unemployment check late as Louisiana’s HIRE website is down, they said.

    “The HiRE website is used to file unemployment claims, job searches and other functions,'” Louisiana officials said in a news release. “This outage impacts the near 11,000 people currently filing continued claims for unemployment in Louisiana.”

    Officials with the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce said they cannot access data to process unemployment claims.”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/unemployment-payments-uncertain-nine-states-web-host-hacked

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  20. EXCERPT: “Armed with an extremist agenda, hundreds of Islamists from around the nation representing the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) descended upon the US Capitol building, from June 13-14, to lobby members of Congress. USCMO has major terrorist ties, and some of the individuals acting as the organization’s delegates are just as radical. One, Syed Ammar Ahmed, an official from the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), once even joked about threatening to blow up a school. Unless he/she thinks their fanatical talking points are valid, why would any sitting Congressman wish to give this group of zealots any of his/her time?

    USCMO was founded, in March 2014, to provide mainstream American Islamist groups a bigger voice and influence in politics. These groups include: the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the South Asian terror-related ICNA, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated Muslim American Society (MAS), and more. The groups sponsoring this year’s event, ‘The 7th Annual Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill,’ included ICNA and Islamic Relief (IR), an organization that has been banned by a number of nations due to its many ties to terrorist financing.

    Sitting on the board of USCMO are Mazen Mokhtar, the former admin for the now-defunct al-Qaeda recruitment/financing site qoqaz.net, who has referred to suicide bombings as “an effective method of attacking the enemy”; Siraj Wahhaj, a Brooklyn imam who was named a party to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to the bomb maker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El; and AMP Executive Director Osama Abuirshaid, who threatened, in January 2020, “Palestinians, if they don’t take what they want willingly, they will take it forcefully… [W]e’re going to liberate our land… whether they like it or they don’t like it.”

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/terror-linked-muslim-umbrella-group-brings-joe-kaufman/

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  21. wtf? i guess demand is down so they have to make the $$ up some how….
    copied from tcth

    Citizen817
    Citizen817
    July 1, 2022 1:01 am

    Drug Cartel: Biden Admin agrees to pay Pfizer 56% more for their COVID shots

    The original deal with Pfizer was negotiated by the Trump Administration during the days of Operation Warpspeed. It paid the pharma giant $19.50 a dose. The new pact gives Pfizer $30.48 per dose, resulting in an astronomical 56% hike from the deal negotiated by the last administration.

    https://dossier.substack.com/p/drug-cartel-biden-admin-agrees-to

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  23. EXCERPT: “While many high-profile companies are offering employees money for abortion tourism in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, a Texas-based insurance company is taking the opposite approach by allocating funds to new parents instead.

    Buffer Insurance, a small company headquartered in Southlake, Texas, took a stand for both biological and adoptive parents and mentioned the Supreme Court decision when they announced the new initiative on Facebook. They shared:

    ‘How Buffer responds to Roe v. Wade: Buffer will pay the medical costs for our employees who birth babies [and] provide paid time off for employees to have maternity & paternity leave. Buffer will pay for the medical costs associated with adopting a baby.’

    The post continued, “Employers: If you’d like to learn how you can provide these benefits to your employees, let us know. We have ready-to-use policies you can add to your employee handbooks. #Impact #WorthProtecting #BeThere #BufferInsurance #Buffer #RoeVWade #Employeehandbooks #OurChildrenAreWorthProtecting.”

    As of September 2021, abortion is illegal in Texas once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, thanks to the Texas Heartbeat Act, which essentially eliminates abortion after six weeks. Before it went into effect, elective abortions were allowed up to 20 weeks gestation in the state.

    Buffer Insurance’s approach stands in stark contrast to companies including Apple, Uber, Amazon, Citigroup, CVS Health, JP Morgan, Meta (Facebook), Tesla, Paramount, Patagonia, Microsoft, Paypal, Starbucks, and Disney, just to name a few. They’ve all publicly committed to paying for employees and their dependents to travel to different states to get abortions if necessary.”

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-based-insurance-company-offers-employees-money-for-birth-adoption-in-response-to-roe-v-wade-being-overturned

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  25. EXCERPT: “Update from the Russian Parliamentary Commission investigation into US Biological activity in Ukraine! Russia compiling dossier against US for acts of bioterrorism! Final Report expected in Autumn!

    Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma, Irina Yarovaya, reported on the findings thus far. She confirmed that Putin’s Special Military Operation was necessary “to suspend the Pentagon’s dangerous military-biological activities on the territory of Ukraine.”

    https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/final-report-on-investigation-into

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  26. FFS!
    first he gave them food stamps, now free healthcare? newsome is trying to buy this election
    copied from tcth

    nwtex
    July 1, 2022 6:35 am

    California First to Cover Health Care for All Immigrants
    Thursday, 30 June 2022

    -snipped-

    California will become the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.

    It’s part of a $307.9 billion operating budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom was expected to sign Thursday. It pledges to make low-income adults eligible for the state’s Medicaid program by 2024, regardless of their immigration status.

    People living in the country illegally made up about 7% of the population nationwide in 2020, or about 22.1 million people, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care nonprofit…

    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/california-immigrant-health-care/2022/06/30/id/1076856/

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  31. it seems there is a huge descrepancy here. election records must be maintained for 22 months–how do they NOT consider photo tracking done for mail in ballots records? that disconnect makes mail in ripe for fraud and should be addressed

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  33. seeing rumors being floated that REALPOTUS will announce his decision to run on July 4th…that would be glorious. also seeing him say he would be open to DeSantis as his running mate…that would be UNSTOPPABLE

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  34. wow! am refilling my hummer feeders DAILY! I get some is from evaporation, but dang! 4 feeders drained every day! I have to rotate them around lunch time…for some reason they prefer the 2 feeders on the side this year. Other years, the front feeders were the popular ones.

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      1. there’s a steady stream all day –but in the late afternoon? that’s when i go out and hold the feeders–there’s usually 15-20 flying around! they buzz my head, lol, and i am finally used to the sound so i don’t flinch. then they land on the one i’m holding.

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  35. EXCERPT: “SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – To get San Diegans in the patriotic spirit, the owners of Alamo Flags are continuing their annual tradition. Every year, Mike Ismail and his son Dean give away 1,000 American flags to people who want one, for free.

    Mike and Dean are immigrants, and say the United States is the best country in the world. So to spread their patriotism, they have made this an annual tradition.

    KUSI’s Ed Lenderman visited Alamo Flags ahead of Fourth of July weekend to check in with the Ismael’s as they prepare to celebrate America’s birthday.”

    Sorry, Pat – no transcription:

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        1. seriously, if the election is stolen this time, i expect there will be rioting…and i would pit the 2a rednecks and conservatives against the woke military crap any day…

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            1. they want a civil war…they NEED a civil war to claim a police state and take over permanently. they do not conceive the depth of the american spirit to be free.
              that will be their undoing…imo

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  38. And the hits just keep coming, eh, Amber??? LOL

    EXCERPT: “Embattled Hollywood actress Amber Heard is under investigation for perjury in Australia, according to reports. Weeks after losing to her ex-husband Johnny Depp in a public defamation trial, Heard’s legal troubles are far from over and could be getting worse.

    Multiple media outlets are now reporting that Heard is still being investigated over allegations of perjury in a case from several years ago. Heard testified during court proceedings for a case in 2015 over the illegal importation of her two dogs into Australia.

    A spokesperson at the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water, and the Environment told ET, “The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment is investigating allegations of perjury by Ms. Heard during court proceedings for the 2015 illegal importation of her two dogs into Australia.”

    https://slaynews.com/news/amber-heard-under-investigation-for-perjury-in-australia/

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  39. I always expect when I ask for a recipe –IF someone is willing to share–that i get the actual recipe. Several times i haven’t…LOL…
    anyway, i am trying today–for probably the 50th time since i got the recipe years ago– to make a marble poundcake.
    when i saw the one my aunt made, it was perfectly in half–vanilla on the top and chocolate on the bottom…not a swirl–but a distinct half and half.
    I have followed the recipe to a t and mine ends up swirled–it’s still delicious, but not the same look. I have asked and asked my aunt if there is a trick–and i get a flat refusal–but her eyes give her away…

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        1. Something to keep it separated; oil or butter or something maybe? Like I said, I’m no baker. I try to bake bread, but it usually turns out crumbly…lol

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          1. whatever it is, she won’t tell me…LOL…
            and i’ve looked on line…no one else has the evenly divided look–everyone elses is swirled…

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    2. You could cut a piece of parchment paper to put in your cake pan after the chocolate layer is in . . . then, after baking and cooling, you should be able to easily lift the vanilla layer, remove the parchment and replace the vanilla layer.

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        1. Didn’t realize it was a Bundt pan . . . lattle harder to cut divider accurately. But in a standard pound cake form . . .

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          1. I can’t use this bundt pan for this recipe–it’s too small. I found out the hard way. so I’ll be using a standard angelfood cake pan–easy to trace!

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  42. Entire Article (video @ link):

    “LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, New Jersey — As a 15-year-old, Sean Binning enjoyed diving for sport and hanging out with friends. But his life changed on March 5, 2019. “It was like a normal day,” he said. “I got, like, the worst headache.” What Binning thought was a migraine turned into much worse when he collapsed. A trip to the hospital revealed that he had a ruptured brain AVM, or arteriovenous malformation. He was born with it but never knew. He was immediately sent in for emergency surgery.

    “I don’t remember anything until I went to the ambulance and then I woke up 18 days later,” said Binning. Three years and three brain surgeries later, Binning is back in action. But he had to rediscover the most basic parts of life before returning to the board. “I had to learn how to walk, talk, speak because of my trach,” he said. “Over time, I started getting better and better.”

    Binning, now an 18-year-old, left his hometown of Annandale, Virginia, to join the Rider University Men’s Swimming and Diving Team. In February, he helped the team become Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champions for the 10th time in a row. The freshman walked away with two awards. Not only was he the rookie diver of the meet, but he was also named diver of the meet overall.

    “It’s all because of my coach, my parents, my teammates just pushed me through it,” said Binning. “I didn’t think I would get this far. I just enjoy the sport. So I’m going to see how far I can go.”

    Binning may not have his sights set on a professional career in diving after college, but he does what to dive head-first into the world of neuroscience by attending medical school.

    “People have been worse than me. I mean, I was happy to be alive. I didn’t know if I could still live after that,” he said. “But I mean, it’s incredible how far I’ve got here and I think I can help other people.”

    https://6abc.com/diving-diver-brain-surgery-malformation/11701706/

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  43. EXCERPT: “President Joe Biden has been trying to convince fellow Democrats that he is the only person for the job in 2024, according to NBC News.

    NBC News noted the “unusual sales pitch” coincides with rising concerns about whether Biden should run again in 2024. Amid a series of crises, low approval numbers and questions about his age, some Democrats have been quietly discussing alternatives to a Biden 2024 run, multiple articles recently reported.

    With support seemingly waning, Biden has been personally pitching himself to members of his party with an argument similar to one he made for his 2020 run, NBC News reported – that he’s the only one who can beat former President Donald Trump.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/30/report-joe-biden-allegedly-convince-democrats-2024-run-trump/

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  44. LOL – good article!

    EXCERPT: “You have to wonder what’s wrong with these editors that they would publish such garbage. Do they not realize that one of the propaganda goals of the Jan. 6 committee is to elicit these kind of editorials? Mission accomplished, Liz Cheney!
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    For its part, National Review posted a long-winded column Tuesday night by Andrew McCarthy declaring Hutchinson’s testimony to be “devastating,” even though key parts of it had already been called into question by people with firsthand knowledge. Since then, McCarthy has penned two additional posts about how the Jan. 6 committee has undercut this “devastating” testimony from Hutchinson, and how the fact that its hearsay is “part irrelevant and part inaccurate.” (McCarthy, for those who don’t know, is a former federal prosecutor who over the course of his punditry threw cold water on the mere suggestion that former FBI director James Comey was dishonest, that Robert Mueller was out to lunch, or that the FBI would ever try to obtain a FISA warrant on abject nonsense, despite later writing a book refuting himself.)

    I recount this depressing spate of commentary not because it’s compelling but because it’s representative of a weird tic on the right to run interference for the left while scolding and betraying the people whose side you’re ostensibly on. I don’t know if it stems from a burning desire to be liked by their leftist peers and cultural tastemakers at The New York Times and The Atlantic, or if they really just want to write for those outlets and be on the Sunday shows.

    Or maybe they secretly despise the right and need to feel like they’re sticking to their principles and speaking the truth to their own side. Maybe it makes them feel righteous and noble.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/30/the-jan-6-committee-is-causing-never-trumpers-to-lose-their-minds/

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  45. Guess we’ll find out, won’t we?

    EXCERPT: “According to a report from Infowars, former President Trump will announce his candidacy for the 2024 presidential ticket this upcoming 4th of July. An insider reportedly told longtime Trump ally Roger Stone about Trump’s intentions to announce his candidacy on July 4th, which certainly falls in line with Trump’s panache for patriotism.

    The 2024 race for the White House will certainly be an interesting one, considering political favorites cropping up on the right who constituents would love to see run for the presidency alongside Democrats seemingly distancing themselves from the current president, Joe Biden.
    —————–
    But moving onto the Republican side of the aisle, one big question lies outside of whether Trump will run for office: Is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis eyeballing the presidency? Earlier in June, Politico reported on a rather peculiar aspect of Governor DeSantis’ upcoming reelection bid in his state, notably that the Florida governor hasn’t sought Trump’s endorsement for his campaign.”

    https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/06/massive-news-coming-from-donald-trump-on-the-4th-of-july-according-to-roger-stone-video/

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  49. Good Morning Patriots!

    Thank you Pat for the ideas in your Open … I love the door wreath!

    Having my first cuppa this a.m., surfing the net looking for beauty to crowd out the ugliness of the “whirl” news … I came across the image below.

    They say a picture …

    this one is perfect for me today … it almost shouts in its quietness

    This is the level of tenacity I must obtain in order to withstand the machinations of those within our government who work to destroy our country.

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      1. Good morning Filly…

        Rain is coming back today … iirc you are still having heat wave … please stay inside! Heat is not good for us at this stage 😉

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        1. Not today, PR – still only 69 outside, with cloudy skies and light rain off-and-on. It’s really very cool but that will change in the next few days – it will be up into the 90’s again, with possible rain on the 4th.

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      1. Good Mornin’ CM!

        Glad your gal is back home … hope you have a terrific weekend… great news about move and related work news …

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        1. Thanks Phoenix! We are working on the house mainly, packing and such. We both have the week off next week, anniversary is on next Friday. Hope y’all have a good weekend too.

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  50. TREASONOUS BITCH!
    piglosi ignores resolution to allow the remains of the last Medal of Honor recipient from WWII lie in state in the Capitol
    entire article
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to ignore a resolution sent to her by West Virginia representative Carol Miller that would allow the last surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient to lie in honor at the US Capitol.

    The veteran in question, Woody Williams, passed away on Wednesday at the age of ninety-eight, serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and most notably fighting in the battle of Iwo Jima.

    Following his death, Miller urged Pelosi to pass the aforementioned resolution, which was introduced and referred to the House Committee on House Administration in January 2021, but has since sat dormant.

    After receiving no response from Pelosi, Miller tried yet again on Thursday, sending a letter to the House Speaker.

    LETTER: I called on Speaker Pelosi to immediately bring my resolution to the House floor, which would allow World War II Medal of Honor recipient and West Virginia native Woody Williams to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol.

    I urge @SpeakerPelosi to act quickly. Read more: pic.twitter.com/UJqEFoIMzd— Rep. Carol Miller (@RepCarolMiller) June 29, 2022

    “I write to you with a heavy heart,” she began, informing Pelosi of Williams’ death.

    “As a tribute to the ‘Greatest Generation’ and to honor the life [of] Woody, I ask you to bring H.Con.Res 7 to the floor immediately to allow Woody to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.”

    “I urge you to act quickly,” she added. “Bestowing this honor to Woody would not only recognize his accomplishments, but would also serve as an important tribute to all of the Medal of Honor recipients and veterans from World War II.”

    Miller pointed out that Williams was much more than a soldier, calling him an “American hero.”

    “He devoted his life to veterans and Gold Star Families,” she wrote. “He and his Foundation have established 103 Gold Star Families Memorial Monuments across the United States, with more than 72 additional monuments under way. He played a critical role in helping veterans throughout his community and will be sorely missed.”

    House Judiciary Committee Republicans blasted Pelosi’s inaction on the resolution, saying that the fact she’s ignoring it tells “all you need to know about the Speaker.”

    IMPORTANT: @RepCarolMiller offered a resolution that would allow Woody Williams, the last surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient, to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol. @SpeakerPelosi is ignoring it.

    All you need to know about the Speaker. https://t.co/jqmfLAXZbM— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) June 30, 2022

    https://thepostmillennial.com/nancy-pelosi-ignores-resolution-to-allow-last-surviving-ww-ii-medal-of-honor-recipient-to-lie-in-honor-at-us-capitol?utm_campaign=64487

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