October 1784, Bernardo de Gálvez was made Governor of Cuba, Louisiana and the Floridas. As a gesture of goodwill he released all American sailors who were imprisoned for smuggling.
"Communism ... seeks through covert manipulation of the civil power and the media of public information and education to pervert the truth, impair respect for moral values, suppress human freedom and representative government, and in the end destroy our faith in our religious teachings."
Immediately after Jefferson became President in 1801, Barbary pirates demanded $225,000, plus an annual tribute of $25,000. When Jefferson refused, the Pasha (Lord) of Tripoli declared war -- the first war the U.S. was in after becoming a nation. Jefferson sent U.S. frigates to the Mediterranean to protect American shipping.
Inscribed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is the phrase: "HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD." Since 1921, it has been the tradition for Presidents to lay a wreath on the Tomb, which is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
General Omar Bradley stated in an Armistice Day speech, November 10, 1948: "To ignore the danger of aggression is simply to invite it ... We shall doom our children to a struggle that may take their lives ... Unless free peoplesstand boldly and united against the forces of aggression, they may fall wretchedly, one by one, into the web of oppression."
