Restoring Honor and 'One Nation' Compared

Socialists Come Up Short in the Aerial Photograph


The aerial photographs speak for themselves. Consider the fact that all of us paid our own way to 08/28 and people were offered free transportation and meals for the 10/02 event. ht/Phil.

Phil Has More [click to read]. Also of note is the 'trash test.' Phil Has That News Too [click to read].

"I Guess after free bus rides, free lunch, free Metro cards, they figured there was free trash pick-up???" -- Phil.

"Live free or die" has an entirely different meaning to these people Phil.

Remembering the Restoring Honor Rally


Arriving at the Lincoln Memorial for the Restoring Honor Rally...


...and the crowd stretches all the way down the reflecting pool to the World War II Memorial.


The crowd from the air... ht/Mike


...there are people crowded UNDER those trees as well.

More Photos [click to view].

Lynn Has More on the Rally [click to read].

Thoughts from the Side of the Reflecting Pool


Here I am at the rally. Photo by T. Barbour.

At today's Restoring Honor Rally, Glenn Beck pointed out the scar in the Washington Monument. Far down the reflecting pool, the mighty obelisk rises as a pure form of ancient architecture. Look closer and you see a change in the stone color, about a quarter of the way up the Monument.

That 'scar' marks the point where work was stopped as North and South fought the War between the States. This bloody conflict might well have ended the American experiment... but the Nation survived and became the great Nation we live in today. When work was resumed on the Monument, the builders went back to the original quarry but were unable to match the marble exactly. The change in color bears silent testimony to one of our most perilous times.

Beck asked the thousands listening to him to look beyond the scars of our differences and see the good that is in our Nation.

Joined by Governor Sarah Palin and Dr. Alveda King [neice of the great Civil Rights Leader], Beck led a call back to the foundations of good in our Nation... the sure step to do the right thing when no one is looking, the value of individual honor in service to one's fellows.

Aaron Copeland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man' played over the Reflecting Pool as the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity were celebrated. That piece had become a theme piece as I visited the Memorial on the July 4th weekend. It was on Xaver Wilhelmy's demonstration DVD played on the glass organ pipes! It was a nice departure from the 'Rocky' theme as I trotted up the steps of the Memorial to watch the morning light illuminate the shrine to Lincoln.

Now it became the theme for honoring people who exemplified the virtues.

Under the trees lining the Reflecting Pool, ordinary Americans came together to affirm the foundations of this country's greatness.

Restoring Honor 08/28/10

Thoughts from the Side of the Reflecting Pool


Here I am at the rally. Photo by T. Barbour.

At today's Restoring Honor Rally, Glenn Beck pointed out the scar in the Washington Monument. Far down the reflecting pool, the mighty obelisk rises as a pure form of ancient architecture. Look closer and you see a change in the stone color, about a quarter of the way up the Monument.

That 'scar' marks the point where work was stopped as North and South fought the War between the States. This bloody conflict might well have ended the American experiment... but the Nation survived and became the great Nation we live in today. When work was resumed on the Monument, the builders went back to the original quarry but were unable to match the marble exactly. The change in color bears silent testimony to one of our most perilous times.

Beck asked the thousands listening to him to look beyond the scars of our differences and see the good that is in our Nation.

Joined by Governor Sarah Palin and Dr. Alveda King [neice of the great Civil Rights Leader], Beck led a call back to the foundations of good in our Nation... the sure step to do the right thing when no one is looking, the value of individual honor in service to one's fellows.

Aaron Copeland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man' played over the Reflecting Pool as the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity were celebrated. That piece had become a theme piece as I visited the Memorial on the July 4th weekend. It was on Xaver Wilhelmy's demonstration DVD played on the glass organ pipes! It was a nice departure from the 'Rocky' theme as I trotted up the steps of the Memorial to watch the morning light illuminate the shrine to Lincoln.

Now it became the theme for honoring people who exemplified the virtues.

Under the trees lining the Reflecting Pool, ordinary Americans came together to affirm the foundations of this country's greatness.

Restoring Honor 08/28/10

Crowds at the Lincoln Memorial


Arriving at the Lincoln Memorial for the Restoring Honor Rally...


...and the crowd stretches all the way down the reflecting pool to the World War II Memorial.


The crowd from the air... ht/Mike


...there are people crowded UNDER those trees as well.

More Photos [click to view].

Lynn Has More on the Rally [click to read].

Prelude to Restoring Honor IV

Ask Yourself: 'What Would Moses Do?'


Thomas Jefferson sought to establish an architectural identity for the young republic...

"Many nations are forged in war: struggles for independence that not only define their future mode of governance but also create the conditions of their national identity. Americans fought off the British in 1776 under the banner of freedom, but it took decades, perhaps a whole century, before their identity would be cemented as "one nation, under G-d." For the Israelites, by contrast, identity preceded independence." -- David Hazony

"The Lord our G-d spoke to us [at Mount Sinai], saying, 'You have dwelt long enough in this mountain: turn, and take your journey …behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers." (Deuteronomy 1: 6-8)

Here is a Brilliant Article [click to read] by David Hanzony in Jewish World Review.


...Washington today is built upon ancient imagery, but uses it as an inspiring backdrop to the pursuit of liberty.

Prelude to Restoring Honor III

The Debt We Owe to the Defenders of Liberty


The World War II Memorial.


Vietnam Memorial...


...and a hero remembered.

Prelude to Restoring Honor II

The Lincoln Memorial


The morning light illuminates the statue of Lincoln...


...from the East.

Prelude to Restoring Honor I

The National Cathedral


Light from the windows above...


...frames a statue of George Washington.


Stained glass and stone.