Born to teen parents, grew up on welfare, ended up a pregnant teen with a locked up baby-daddy. Married a great guy, found a mentor, built a career, graduated @penn_state, started my own company and support a family with a full-time, dedicated stay-at-home dad. #IBootstrapped
On this day in 1864, the US government turned a Confederate general's front yard into a graveyard, and the cruelty was the point. The land belonged to Robert E. Lee's family through his wife, a descendant of Martha Washington. Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs, furious at Lee for the war, deliberately ordered Union dead buried right up against the mansion so the family could never comfortably return. It worked. They never lived there again. Today more than 400,000 American service members rest at Arlington National Cemetery, on the grounds of the home of the man who fought against them. Few acts of spite in history aged into something so sacred.
While I definitely thought it was funny at the time, and will defend his right to say it, I really do wish Josh Hokit had not said what he said last night about Michelle Obama.
Without that one tiny sound bite of the entire event, the left wouldn’t have had much to cry about beyond their “white trash” denigrating of Conservatives.
Instead of that one thing dominating the news and social media feeds today, we might have actually seen some positive take away from the event, possibly encouraging a little more patriotism from the left to stop being so partisan and join in on the rest of the 250th celebrations.
It’s really kind of a shame that one snippet has been the biggest takeaway of the Freedom 250 event.