A Lineage of Warriors: Continue The Mission, #1

By Gregg Cummings

This book takes you through all 13 of America's wars in the last 245+ years, from the Revolutionary War to the War in Afghanistan.  This amazing and well-researched collection of stories, insights and patriotic encouragement is second to none. It not only gives statistics of how many Americans served in each campaign but gives the amount of wounded and died in combat of each of these challenging times throughout our history.  But this outstanding record also focuses on types of warfighters and individual heroic warriors that defended our freedoms and way of life here and abroad.  Warriors like the Revolutionary Patriots, Buffalo Soldiers, Green Berets, Rangers, Seals, and many more. Sharing perspectives that government/public schools stopped teaching, if they ever taught these stories of commitment, leadership, dedication, and patriotism of our nation, to begin with.  

This is book one of a series of books that are not only a complement to the book "Continue The Mission, a We The People's Handbook" but an Ebook Series that gives insights, understandings, and a sense of purpose back to the mission our forefathers intended within our Constitutional Republic. By the end of this read, you will truly understand the sacredness of this A Lineage of Warriors and why they are considered heroes, patriots, and why we stand for Old Glory always, as we are reminded that a thankful nation drapes their caskets when they are put to rest.      

• Language: English
• Publisher: "Charlie Mike" Publishing
• Release date: Sep 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201322601

Gregg Cummings

Gregg C. Cummings was born into a classic military family. His father was a WWII, Korean, and Vietnam Veteran. He and his twin are the youngest of 4 boys. He has been a National Grassroots Development Director, District Director of Strong America Now, an Iowa State Certified Peace Officer as well as an elite Paratrooper, Ranger, and Engineer Veteran of the United States Army, being awarded 23 medals in 12 years of service. Gregg was also Law Enforcement Officer for 5 years and has a BA in Sociology from Graceland University. Gregg is currently married with 2 beautiful daughters. Gregg has a passion for our United States of America and is a good old-fashioned Blue collar, God-fearing, American Veteran Patriot trying to do all he can for our veterans, to win back our country, protect our sacred documents and defend it against any who try to damage the “United” part of the United States of America.

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The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are in fact, collectively, a call to action for the American citizen to individually stand up and get engaged.

-Gregg Cummings

Continue The Mission Series

A Series of Books That not only Complements the book ‘Continue The Mission We The People’s Handbook but an eBook Series that  gives insights, understandings, and a sense of purpose back to the Mission our forefathers intended within our Constitutional Republic."

Book One Table of Contents

Continue The Mission Series Introduction:

Our American Duty explained

Foreword: By Marine Veteran, Christopher M. Cousins Jr. 

BOOK ONE: Continue The Mission A Lineage of Warriors

Sector One The Delivery of a Nation

Sector Two The Fire of Liberty

Sector Three Land Struggles

Sector Four Drawing Lines

Sector Five Brother Against Brother

Sector Six The Forgotten Warriors

Sector Seven Remember the Poppies

Sector Eight The Greatest Generation

Sector Nine The Forgotten War

Sector Ten Warriors Shamed

Sector Eleven Winter Soldiers

Sector Twelve The Tempest Warriors

Sector Thirteen Dogs of War-riors

Sector Fourteen In Closing 

Series Introduction

The famous If you can keep it Story and

American Duty Explained

Ifirst heard the story of Benjamin Franklin and the lady on the steps of the old Pennsylvania State House now known as Independence Hall, while I was at a conference listening to a keynote speaker that used this story to lead into his discussion of defining a Republic. Sense then, I have heard it from time to time usually about the same topic.  As I have traveled the country speaking and helping build networks of people and groups at local, state and national levels, you can imagine the many different topics of discussions on all the many obstacles the people are faced with out there and trying to make a difference in defending this same Republic and the ideologies our founders had when developing it. 

It is true, there is a huge difference between what a true democracy is and what our founders created in a Representative Republic. In Noah Webster’s 1828 dictionary it specifically defines the difference like this:

In modern usage, it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person.

Our founding fathers knew that a pure democracy often oppressed the minority and not a positive champion for the rights of all individual citizens, so they literally went to the drawing board and in much deliberation came up with the greatest form of government in human history. 

This leads us to the famous story of Mrs. Elizabeth Powel of Pennsylvania and Benjamin Franklin.  You see Mrs. Powel was not just some passerby, that day on the steps just outside the constitutional convention, she was a very close friend and confidante of President George Washington and was married to Samuel Powel who became the Mayor of Philadelphia.  She and her husband would host many political events in their home, and she was always outspoken to the dismay of many other women of that time period.  However, it must have been for her, not being your normal in her place woman of the era, she actually became very close friends with George Washington as he found himself in political discussions with her so often that she and her husband, Samuel Powel, grew very close to Martha and himself, sharing travels back and forth with visits to Mt. Vernon. In fact, it was Mrs. Powel who actually talked George Washington in not retiring after his first term as president, it was she who explained the dangers of an outside movement just waiting for an excuse to do away with this newly formed Republic. But I am getting ahead of the story.

For the delegates to be in the constitutional convention for days on end, one could just imagine Mrs. Powel pacing outside those sacred halls of the Pennsylvania State House just waiting for the opportunity to be the first in the know of what kind of government these best minds of the day would give the people.  On September 17th, 1787, as recorded by Dr. James McHenry a delegate from Maryland to the Constitutional Convention. As Dr. Benjamin Franklin stepped out of the State House, Mrs. Powel was first to meet him and asked:

Well Dr. what have we got, a Republic or a Monarchy?

Franklin stopped and looked at her and said:

A Republic, madam, if you can keep it.

So there it was, a story that has been used many times sense then to promote our Republic.  With excitement of that one small clip into the past announcing the Great American Experiment we now know as a Constitutional Republic. But there is something deeper in that story I really want to share. I can just hear the tone in Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s voice to Mrs. Powel.  A tone with a half-cracked smile even, putting the onus, not on the great minds who hammered out this Republic, but on the shoulders of Mrs. Powel and all citizens of this newly formed United States of America.  If you can keep it  five very simple words, making it clear and concise, that the citizen must have an actual role to play within this new style of government. A role of responsibility and duty from you, the citizen, to maintain this Republic.   A role that holds the authority to make sure we never turn ourselves into a pure democracy or worse, a socialist democracy.  Let’s revisit Noah Webster’s dictionary of 1828 to see what it says responsibility is:

The state of being accountable or answerable, as for a trust or office, or for a debt. 

and the word duty:

That which a person owes to another; that which a person is bound, by any natural, moral or legal obligation, to pay, do or perform. Obedience to princes, magistrates and the laws is the duty of every citizen and subject; ... 

The If you can keep it is a directive to every citizen to understand their responsibility and duty to our Republic.  Our Constitutional Republic is, within itself, operates as the action of authority. The citizen’s debt is now to be accountable to each other, to all citizens, our Constitutional Republic is he or she being bound by moral and now legal obligation under the supreme law of the land, (the Constitution).

Our Constitutional Republic is respecting, honoring, and defending the liberties to all ends possible.  This new form of government took away any obedience to a prince or a king and replaced it with the Constitution, for our Republic, for E Pluribus Unum (from the many one) for the United States of America. 

So, all knew there is a responsibility and a duty that comes with being a citizen of the United States of America.  Up to this point in history most have only dealt with monarchies, dictatorships, socialisms where the authority always came from the top