Thread by @usgeneral25

🧵🪡 @HAv2RtrnVdeoTps a day late but, On Thanksgiving. I am thankful to be born in such a time as this. As we go through this fourth turning, I know not what the future holds, but I know that I will do my best to play my part in bending the arc of history as others have before.1

I grew up reading about heroes, both mythical like Ivanhoe and real like Swamp Fox(Francis Marion), who, when their time came, rose to their trial and helped their community through the trying time. 2/6

When I read about history and the great and yet imperfect people that helped shape our history, I have always wondered what I would do at the time. Would I have the courage to take the road less traveled, to sacrifice something for what I believed? 3/6

I still do not know, only time will tell that tale, but I hope the life I have lived before will have prepared me for what is to come. When the framers signed the Declaration of Independence, they laid it all on the line. 4/6

Pledging their lives, their fortune, and their sacred honor, knowing that if they were caught by the British or lost the war, they would be executed for treason, and yet still they signed uncertain of their future. 5/6

I look forward to walking this path with others as we face an inflection point in history and discovering the answer to questions I have asked myself since I was a boy. Thanks for reading, the painting is the Polish hussars at the siege of Vienna helping stop the Ottoman Empire6/

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