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Georgia Heritage Day, Alphretta

On Thursday, Dee and I cranked up the Ford F-350 Dually pickup, and pulled the C-47 Gooney Bird D-Day Traveling Museum up the freeway to Webb Bridge Middle School in Alpharetta, Georgia. This wonderful event is entitled “Georgia Heritage Day.”

It is an event sponsored by the school’s social studies group. It will encourage the students to look at their heritage in history, food, culture, government, and Georgia’s core values. The administrators and teachers promoting this event are to be commended. Commendation is also due Integrity Bank of Alpharetta for their sponsorship in bringing our historic museum to the school.

We also tackle The Revolutionary War, and Georgia’s founder Oglethorpe and his ideas for an American Zion. The present day part of the event will review how students can participate in democracy of how they can build “houses of humanity.”

Our plane is named “Wing and a Prayer” and has original artifacts from our famed D-Day invasion into Normandy to liberate Europe from oppression. It shows how our “greatest generation” saved the world from tyranny, and how ordinary people, did extraordinary things for you and me. Many of those people were spiritual men and women. This is the stuff that heroes are made of.

If you move an event like this into the spiritual realm, it happens on a daily basis where “ordinary people” do extraordinary things for God.

I was getting my auto tag renewed at the Fayette County Tag office this past week and encountered the only man at the tag office behind the glass window. He had been kind to me in getting me a map to where I could go to get a same day title on Henry Ford Avenue off of I-75 across from the Ford Plant near the Airport. Like I always do, I asked him my question that I ask “everyone” I meet, “sir is you in a good church?” He smiled and said, “The lady that just left the window was our church secretary.”

This engulfed us into great spiritual talk of his involvement in his church and how he works with the children and how they build a great Christmas and Easter outside event each year. Now I ask you, isn’t that better conversation than “how are you today-fine how are you-fine-have a good day, you tooo!

The word heritage means to inherit or to pass down. Have you ever thought what we are passing down or giving for inheritance to our loved ones? I promise you that the character and values of our faith and forefathers will carry them further in life than a fist full of dollars.

One of the artifacts in our museum is a tin sign we have all seen which is a picture of an attractive woman in her late 20s, with a red scarf tied around her head with her arm raised with a fist showing her arm muscle.

She has become an American icon for the WWII generation. She is “Rosie the Riveter.” Rosie is revered as representing the thousands of women who left their homes on a daily basis to work in our war producing factories.

If you study this era of history, you cannot help but notice why it is called “our greatest generation.”

In the aircraft factories here in Georgia alone, they cranked out thousands of aircraft working around the clock, seven days a week, 365 days a year. There were signs printed on the walls of these factories that would read, “if you take a day off, some soldier may not get what he needs to fight.”

Rosie and her fellow workers built the C-47 Gooney Birds which had over 800,000 rivets in each airplane. A rivet took two “Rosies’ ” per rivet, one to hold the rivet from the inside the plane, and one on the outside. Imagine squeezing the rivet gun over 800,000 times per airplane, and the Rosie on the inside holding it. These women did this day in and day out until the war ended.

God’s Word says “to whom much is given, much is required.” In our society today, we have the very most affluent society ever created in the history of the world. We have more now than at any time in the history of mankind. I wonder what the historians will say of our generation?

If you have any extra time, go to the pastor of your church and say “I have so many hours to donate to the vision and mission of this church on a weekly basis. God will bless your efforts and more people will benefit from your efforts.

Long live the “Rosies” of life.

Our new church is finished.  

Our New Church website is under construction due to our new building. When completed, you can view it at: www.hishousecommunitychurch.com

Check out our new “God and Country-Salute to the Troops” Outreach Website at: www.ddaytravelingmuseum.com.