Lori Ann

New Hampshire is smaller than South Carolina and handily beats this. The cope is so sad. At least you have pretty ruins!

In 1888, General Longstreet returned to Gettysburg. A one-legged Yank hobbled up on crutches, grasped his hand, and said, "General, I fought against you at Round Top. I lost a wing there, but I am proud to meet you here." Longstreet beamed and grasped the veterans hand. "Yes, those were hot times then, but I’m all right now." Over 30,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered to promote national unity and reconciliation. Those who bled there knew the war was over and we were all countrymen again. We could learn something from them.

Out of every disgusting, dishonest piece of filth the mainstream media has produced about Hurricane Helene... This is the worst. 60 Minutes has NEVER done a story on the families FEMA denied. They NEVER mentioned the Amish, who are STILL in the mountains rebuilding homes 550 days later. They NEVER mentioned Jake Jarvis, who has worked 550 days STRAIGHT FOR FREE for Hurricane Helene victims. Instead, they dug up some fringe conspiracy angle to smear the people who actually showed up as White Nationalists. I'm so angry. Let me tell you what 60 Minutes will NEVER report on I was there. I lived it. I am still here. I shared every story I could find. Me, my wife, hundreds of volunteers delivered RVs to mothers holding babies who were sleeping in TOOL SHEDS AND TENTS in the freezing cold, in the mountains. Because their homes had been ripped off the side of a mountain and washed down the French Broad. So tell me 60 Minutes... WHERE WAS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? Tell me, WHY did all these volunteers NEED to show up? Any thoughts on that?!!!!! Any investigation AT ALL into the federal or state government's response to Hurricane Helene? Please tell me... if the federal government was doing such a GREAT JOB, why did we need to put victims in RVs... ...A MONTH AFTER THE HURRICANE?!!!!!!! Literally every single victim you talk to in Western North Carolina has a horror story about dealing with FEMA... ...and guess who they will all say actually cam through for them? Neighbors. Church groups. The Amish. The Cajun Navy. Shawn Hendricks. Samaritan's Purse. MercuryOne. The Mission Mules hauling insulin up washed-out roads, ONLY ACCESSIBLE by mules. Greg Biffle burning his own fuel in helicopters. Veterans like Adam Smith who organized helicopter rescues with other veterans BY HIMSELF and then was demonized by the media for it. Volunteers like Jake Jarvis working TO THIS DAY, 550 days later without ANY PAY AT ALL. THOSE ARE THE STORIES FROM HURRICANE HELENE WORTH TELLING. But 60 Minutes won't tell ANY OF THEM. Because the truth makes the federal government the villain and the "deplorables" are actually the heroes in this story and they can NEVER admit that. So instead they smeared the rescuers as white nationalists. This is unforgivable. I was there. I saw it with my own eyes. And I will BE DAMNED if I let CBS rewrite the history of what happened to my mountains.

There’s almost nobody in the United States who is a true “heritage American.” Your grandparents or great-grandparents were probably Polish or Italian or Irish immigrants. Mine were Slovenian, Greek, and German. The promise of America was just as much theirs as it is ours. That’s the same promise that an immigrant receives today. The point shouldn’t be to eliminate immigration but rather to ensure that all immigrants to the United States come here legally, work hard, share our values, and are completely committed to our Constitution.