Today's American Minute
Justice Samuel Chase & Secretary of War James McHenry "Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures" - American Minute with Bill Federer
Secretary of War James McHenry became President of the first Bible Society in Baltimore, Maryland, stating in 1813: "Bible ... is a book of councils and directions, fitted to every situation in which man can be placed."
U.S. Navy origins and Naval Academy - American Minute with Bill Federer
U.S. Naval Academy & Early Navy Heroes
President Wilson, Executive Order, January 20, 1918: "The sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors ... the best sentiment of a Christian people ... demand that Sunday labor in the Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity."
CHARIOTS OF FIRE: Scottish runner Eric Liddell in the 1924 Olympics
The movie depicted his running coach pressing him to compete in the 1924 Olympics, with Eric’s brother, Robert, agreeing: “What we need now is a muscular Christian to make folks sit up and notice.”
Early U.S. Navy Heroes - Farragut, Porter & Maury
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut yelled out: "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" Rallying his sailors, he captured Mobile, Alabama, the last Confederate stronghold in the Gulf of Mexico, on August 5, 1864.
Women of the Revolutionary War: "As there were Fathers in our Republic so there were Mothers"-Coolidge - American Minute with Bill Federer
President Coolidge to the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 19, 1926, President Calvin Coolidge: "The importance of women in the working out the destiny of mankind ... As there were fathers in our Republic so there were mothers ... By their abiding faith they inspired and encouraged the men; by their sacrifice they performed their part in the struggle out of which came our country."