Uncle Sam Says, True stories of our Founding Fathers

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is a study in contrasts.  Nathan Hale was a very successful Dutch School teacher who volunteered to discover things George Washington needed to know about British troop movements. "My only regret is that I have only one life to give for my country".  Benedict Arnold was an American hero.  He was second in command at the Battle of Saratoga and hero of our att...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast may be dated but the message is so current that I have included it anyway. Who was the American Yankee?  What made a Yankee a Yankee?  Why were we different? The elements of an American Yankee is almost a snapshot of America itself. Yes! we are exceptional people! We came to America to be free. We did not clamor for Government handouts or guarantees.  All we wanted wa...

Send us Fan Mail When I was a youngster I was taken to one of the first 3-D movies ever made.  It was Fort Ticonderoga.  I was really enjoying the show when suddenly, with no warning at all, a flaming arrow came right out of the screen and landed smack in my chest. I was too shocked to do or say anything but the girls and guys around me simply erupted. As more fire, tomahawks and clubs arrived in...

Send us Fan Mail This is the most decisive battle of the War os 1812 was actually fought two weeks after the end of the war. But that did not stop Americans from wildly cheering and catapulting Andrew Jackson into instant hero status and eventually into the Whitehouse. IT was one of the most lopsided victories in the history of warfare. And one of the reasons we so thoroughly whipped them was beca...

Send us Fan Mail George Washington has been given credit for a lot of things but one of his many accomplishments has not gotten many reviews,  He was actually a master at psychological warfare.  The average poor redcoat soldier came to America filled with the ideology that all of the colonist soldiers were country bumkins.  Because of his secret weapons and clever spy commotions, he turned their p...

Send us Fan Mail Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the very best poet in America. At least many people think so.  He is the person responsible for Paul Revere becoming famous. While his poem is superb in excitement it is lacking a little in authenticity. Paul Revere was NOT the only one riding for the committee that night. In fact, Richard Dawson rode to warn also and may have been even more successf...

Send us Fan Mail The Battle of Turtle Creek is one of the most famous battles of the French and Indian War. George Washington is a young Major who is recovering from dysentary.  He is thrust into the leadership position because all of his superiors are killed. He has many bullet holes in his coat and bullet fragments in his hair but he remained unhurt. It is fascinating to learn what happened when...

Send us Fan Mail Literacy,   Have you wondered how literate the colonists were? How about the British at that time? How did they compare to us?  Sit back and prepare to be humbled! The Children's Revolt.   In the middle of the winter, they stood up to the British officers and then even to the general. They condemned him and all things British!  If their fathers had done the same they would ha...

Send us Fan Mail Most people think of George Washington as a rich plantation owner that strutted around with a powdered white wig.  Yeah, he did that but he hated it when he had to. He loved life on his plantation where he could sit under his "vine and fig tree".  The fact that he was also one of the greatest athletes in the colonies and quite possibly was also the strongest man in the c...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know the George Washington almost had to get married when he was only 17 years old? This story takes place when he was the licensed surveyor of Culpeper County Virginia working way out in wild unsurveyed Indian country.  Young, 17-year-old George Washington learned very emphatically that Indians just might not be his biggest danger. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This podcast was originally titled "Why we are not speaking Japanese".  Both titles work as you will see in this podcast. Our second Amendment is so very important to our very existence as a nation but it is not even being taught in our schools. Many of our politicians are even breaking their oath of office by trying to nullify the second amendment and take our guns from...

Send us Fan Mail Was George Washington rich?  YES, by all accounts he became one of the richest men in the colonies.  But..., he was not born rich!  Yes, he was born on a rich plantation but, because of the law of Primogeniture, since he was the third oldest son, he could not inherit the wealth. How is that for being fair?  He did inherit some and he married into wealth but most of it he earned th...

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to have a wall between church and state?  Why did the Supreme court rule that we can no longer have prayer in schools? Did Thomas Jefferson really say that we must have a wall between church and State? Does it really say that in our Constitution? This story will answer all of those questions and you will never doubt nor forget the answers! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This was a one-man rodeo that caught the fancy of the whole countryside. His mother owned a mankiller horse that had never been ridden. He was the meanest, orneriest, wildest horse in the colony.  Well, 15-year-old George decided to give it a try. They did finally get the saddle on him but that was just the beginning of the mightiest battle between two indomitable personalities th...

Send us Fan Mail How about that!  Did you know that George Washington started that war?  Well now, I am not saying that he caused the war... just that he got it started.  Yepper!  He did and this is a story of great patriotism and loyalty and of great sacrifice. I bet that you can't find anyone today that could do what he did in this story.  Nope, we just don't raise kids today to be so...

Send us Fan Mail Nancy Hart.  A six foot two inch mountain of a woman who had cross eyes and an attitude against the British. She takes on five British soldiers and........ well, I won't ruin the ending for you.  But I tell you this, you are going to remember Nancy Hart and love her as a great, even formidable , Founding Mother. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Did you know that George Washington was the world's first submarine commander in war time? He did not pilot the sub but he was indeed the commander. This is the story of the beginning of George Washington's terrible (for the enemy) policy of psychological warfare. Just you wait until I tell the story of the Battle of NewOrleans in the War of 1812 and you can see very cle...