He was "poor born," and therefore "not worthy of his many successes and his rising status in the world." Such was the mentality of the many officials and technocrats surrounding the young queen Elizabeth the First, England's sovereign known to history as the "Virgin Queen." But Elizabeth could see talent and grit in a man. For she was not interested in surrounding herself with the sons of noblemen, who were generally untrustworthy and worthless. No, she needed fighters, men of talent and principle, men who were loyal to king and country--especially with the exceedingly lethal foreign enemy now rushing their way leading the largest Armada of warships the world had ever seen... www.TheLegacyGen.com

MAJOR RUBY BRADLEY could not be shaken, or driven from her field hospital by the enemy when she had wounded men under her care and protection. The most decorated woman in American Military History shows men and women of every generation how to quietly, yet tenaciously, serve and to make a heroic difference on some of the most brutal battlefields of history. Her story is one that needs to be told and retold, but more so...remembered. I'm Rick Robison and this is HEROES FOR FREEDOM!

HIDDEN HISTORY Right before the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln said that he knew that the South's invading army would be defeated. He knew it. But how he knew it has been, in effect, buried by academia and by today's historians.

Why this historical gem is not taught in every school, and certainly from every pulpit in the land, is indicative of the truly poisonous ideology, the narrative, that too many are marching to today.

So, in this next installment in the HEROES FOR FREEDOM! Podcast, we do our best to correct the record.

Here at the Legacy Generation we are committed to uncover, and then provide to the world, these critical lost stories of American, Christian, and Individual Greatness...for the record, and for the Upcoming Generation, our Legacy Generation.

I'm Rick Robison and this is HEROES FOR FREEDOM! SOURCE MENTIONED IN PODCAST: A little-known, yet firsthand account is found in Lt. Colonel James Fowler Rusling’s 1899 book (Library of Congress Catalog 1,624,344): MEN AND THINGS I SAW IN CIVIL WAR DAYS. Colonel James Rusling, General Sickles’ staff officer, was with his general on the 5th of July (1863) when he was visited by President Abraham Lincoln and his son, as described in detail in this book.

When their nation, the United States, was attacked by the Empire of Japan, the Navajo people responded. I had the opportunity to sit down with a Marine Navajo Code Talker in his home on the Rez, in Ganado. A little known, yet true American warrior-hero. And what an amazing evening! The opportunity of a lifetime, offering priceless insights into the meaning of patriotism and sacrifice, a glimpse into a world I shall not forget...

Can one person change the course of history? You bet! It's happened many times in our past. President Lincoln was about to be turned out of office and a Copperhead Democrat elected in his place, promising to sign a treaty with the Confederate South, allowing them to keep their slaves and break apart the United States of America, creating two (or more) probably perpetually hostile, and weak, nations. This would have been a disaster for the world, especially five decades later when Communism, and then Nazism, would sweep the world. And without a strong, united America, the world would not likely have prevailed. And the eternal evil of human bondage would continue. In fact, today we would not recognize our nation, or even ourselves. Can one person have a major impact upon history? Stick with me at HEROES FOR FREEDOM! and I'll show you how and why. I'm Rick Robison and this is Heroes For Freedom!

In 1825, the renegades, Indian and white, surrounded six-year-old Wye-anna’s Shoshoni village in the predawn raid in the shadows of the Wind River Mountains of what would become Wyoming. They sought scalps and young captives they could abuse and then sell.

Sweeping through my triple-great grandmother’s village, the raiders killed the men outright, molested, tortured, then murdered the women, and captured a number of children, including Wye-anna (Sally). The brutality was unspeakable. But fortunately for my triple-great grandmother, Sally ended up being rescued by a kind-hearted mountain man who was headed back to St. Louis. There she was raised by a compassionate Christian family where she was educated in the ways of the whites. But when fifteen years old, she longed for the great Rocky Mountains of home, so she set off alone on her quest, following the Missouri River westward seeking its headwaters and into an adventure rarely repeated by a teen in the history of our nation.

Too often hidden or ignored in America’s extremely diverse past we find amazing examples of peoples, cultures, races, and creeds, working together to build our free, open, prosperous society.

History is important NOT because "those who forget it are destined to repeat it." I don’t believe that adage. The world changes every day, every minute. The future will always have a different set of realities and dangers, because human beings have their agency and will make a complicated combination of choices creating unpredictable outcomes.

No, mastering the past fortifies us against evil and those who perpetuate it.

It’s that simple. Genuine history is truth's finest early warning system. Cicero warned us: "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

This is “Decline by Design.” Our children are purposely set adrift on a sea of moral relativism, of “your truth,” and “my truth,” which becomes “anything but truth.” In the words of C. S. Lewis, our children are being born into “enemy occupied territory.”

I find it hard to look to the future with much hope. That said...we hope that perhaps the HEROES FOR FREEDOM! Podcast with Rick Robison might be a positive force, in some small way. For human existence to have any meaning at all, it must be "woven into our past" or we will, as "forever children," forfeit our Covenant Nation to the bottomless caldron of tyranny.

The history of this great nation cannot be told without citing the blessings from God, for these blessings are many, and inspiring. What’s not going to work is purposely excluding and canceling them, for I believe that this nation, a covenant nation, and its people, in the end, will not allow it.

To help fight back we offer the truth—the history that counts—the life-changing, personal stories of our Heroes For Freedom!, the uncommon choices made by common men, women, even children, choices that created our exceptional nation blessing us today.

I invite you, please, join me on a journey I guarantee you will not soon forget. The Heroes For Freedom! podcast with Rick Robison. Also, on YouTube.

Thank you.

I’m Rick Robison and this is the Heroes For Freedom! Podcast.

TAKING ON THE WHOLE, DAMNED LUFTWAFFE...ALONE! Thirty and more German fighters swarmed in to attack the vulnerable "Wing" of American B-17 Flying Fortresses. The young American crews, seeing the massive numbers of enemy fighters ahead, began to believe that this might be their last mission. They'd never see the friendly skies of home again. But then, a lone P-51 Mustang appeared. The bomber crews desperately scanned for more. There were no more, and their hearts sank again. But what they didn't know, the man who piloted that lone Mustang fighter, was indeed the "angel on their shoulders," though in this case, he was a Destroying Angel--exactly what they needed! The wholly one-sided dogfight the B-17 crews watched over the next half-hour, is considered the finest ever witnessed in the skies over Germany...