Charlton Heston Honored with a Stamp

Posted by Tina

The US Post Office is always looking for new ways to create some revenue. They might have just found a winner in the Charlton Heston commemorative stamp if gun sales in this country are any indication of possible sales. Charlton Heston is appreciated by gun ownersand patriots all across this land of ours. Thanks go out to Turner Classic Movies for the co-sponsorship. Brightbart’s Big Hollywood quotes the actor:

When freedom shivers in the cold shadow of true peril, it’s always the patriots who first hear the call. When loss of liberty is looming, as it is now, the siren sounds first in the hearts of freedom’s vanguard. The smoke in the air of our Concord bridges and Pearl Harbors is always smelled first by the farmers, who come from their simple homes to find the fire and fight. Because they know that sacred stuff resides in that wooden stock and blued steel.

…So as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice–to hear and to heed–from my cold dead hands.

Heston’s words couldn’t be more appropriate in this era of fast fading freedoms.