A Poor Knight of Christ

This post was placed on another blog. Since then, I have decided that it would be more appropriate here.

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So, you say you love your freedom? You say you love your country? Well, let me ask you: Have you thanked a Freemason?

"Thank a Freemason?," you say. "Why should I do that?"Let me give you just a few reasons why:

Signers of the Declaration of Independence:

Willaim Hooper
Matthew Thornton
Willaim Whipple
John Hancock
Richard Stockton
George Walton

Other Freemasons:

General of the Armies George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Paul Revere
Governor Patrick Henry
Admiral John Paul Jones
The Boston Tea Party participants

Signers of the Constitution:

Abraham Baldwin
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
John Blair
William Blount
David Brearly
Daniel Carroll
Willaim Richardson
Jonathan Dayton
John Sullivan
Oliver Ellsworth
Elbridge Gerry
Refus King
John Langdon
John Lansing, Jr.
James McHenry
James Madison
Alexander Martin
Robert Morris
Willaim Paterson
William Pierce
David Charles Pinckney
Edmund Randolph
George Read
Roger Sherman
George Walton
George Wythe

Other Freemasons:General Joseph Warren (killed at Bunker Hill)
Major General Richard Montgomery (first general officer of the U.S. Continental Army to be killed in battle)
Captain Marquis de Lafayette
Dr. James McHenry (Surgeon: American Revolution)
Major General Henry Knox (US Revolutionary War hero)
Samuel Nicholas (first officer 0f the U.S. Marine Corps)
Captain Samuel Nicholson (First commander of the U.S.S. Constitution)
General Andrew Jackson
President James Buchanon*
President James Polk
General Stephen Austin ("Father of Texas)*
Governor Sam Houston (governor of both Tennessee and Texas)
Colonel James Bowie
Colonel David Crockett
Lt. Colonel William B. Travis
Francis Scott Key
Col Merriwether Lewis (Lewis and Clark Expedition)*
Samuel Colt (American arms manufactuer)*
General of the Armies "Black" Jack Pershing
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
J. Edgar Hoover (FBI Director)*
President Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.*
Sergeant J. Floyd Davis (my dad)
Major Audie Murphy
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army Henry "Hap" Arnold
General of the Army Omar Bradley
General of the Army George C. Marshall
Brigadier General James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle
Sir Winston Churchill
President Harry S. Truman
Major General John A. Lejeune (13th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps)
Senator Robert "Bob" Dole
President Gerald Ford*
President James Garfield*
Senator Barry Goldwater*
President Warren G. Harding*


...and many more!

What's my point? All of the aforementioned...Freemasons!


* Denotes additional information or names added since the original post.

Labels: Freemasonry, History, Masonry