September 5, 2024

I said I was going to write about this. So, if you didn’t watch the RNC Convention in Milwaukee in July…or even if you did…here is a copy of an email I had sent to a friend about it with some of my impressions and reflections (re: the last night):

To A Dear Friend of Mine,

I don’t know if you’ve been watching this Convention, but I’ve never seen anything like it in all of politics. Or anything else! Hollywood couldn’t have made one of their specials about adoption (which always get me crying) or any fictional movie like it. It’s just been so moving. 

Peter Navarro, who just this morning got out of prison for standing up to the illegitimate and despicable January 6th Committee for claiming Executive Privilege and refusing to testify to them – got out of prison in Miami in the morning and then flew to Milwaukee to speak at the Convention tonight. I’ve been praying for him since he went in and was glad to see him.

The 13 Gold Star families who lost their children, brothers, at Abbey Gate at the fall of Afghanistan were just so moving. First a beautiful video about them played as the family members told what it was like when they first heard about the bombing, and when the soldiers came to their doors. And then they told what it was like at the Dignified Transfer and how insulted they all were by Joe Biden, so blatantly disrespecting them by repeatedly checking his watch. They told about how none of them ever heard from JB and how this administration has never once said any of their children’s names. Not one.

The first mother who got up on stage could hardly speak from crying, and everyone in the crowd was crying. She said Donald Trump called them, invited them all to Bedminster in NJ, and spent 6 hours with them. She said that Donald Trump helped her carry the weight of her grief for a few hours, and that meant the world to her. She said he knew every one of their children’s names and those who spoke said he is very compassionate to them all. They can tell he really cares about them. 

Then, one couple, Herman & Alicia Lopez (parents who lost their son) spoke about their son. The couple are both in law enforcement and their other son is now in the army (they said they do not trust JB with the life of the only son they have left). They were further upset when, in the debate, JB said no service members have been lost during his administration!

They said they were going to say each name of the 13 soldiers lost there. And as he spoke each name, the crowd repeated each and every one back. Hearing those names, each one spoken loudly by such a large crowd was so poignant.

…I saw many, many grown men in the audience crying. I was, too. 😭😩 No one could watch that and not cry. I don’t know how those family members could even stand up there, let alone speak. Then the crowd chanted “Never Forget” and then that morphed into “Joe Must Go”. Then the crowd chanted “USA” as they all stood up there and put their hands on their hearts and blew kisses to them.

I was watching on Newsmax and right after this, Greta VanSusteren told a story about how years ago, Donald Trump – before he was ever president, when he was just a businessman – he called her at her office and wanted to know the address of a certain service member. She said, “Why do you want to know that?” He said, “Because he needs some help. I’m gonna send him some help.” She said, “Well, I don’t know his address.” He said, “I’ll tell you what – I’ll send you the check and you can give it to him.” The next day she received a $25,000 check and she had to track the guy down and get the check to him so he could get a start. She said he never got any credit for it, nobody ever knew anything about it.  Rob Schmidt and the Newsmax crew were all saying they were having trouble keeping it together. And they’re professionals. 

Rick Santorum pointed out how JB accuses Trump of calling Service Members suckers and losers – when the truth about him is actually in the story above from Greta! We all know that never happened, but the dems don’t care if they make up lies about him. President Trump is, and has been, helping veterans and the Biden-Harris administration is killing them. And then they point and scream to smear him. What a disgrace. 

Then, parents of an American hostage still being held by Hamas – 9 months and they still wake up every morning not knowing if their son is dead or alive. She quoted Psalm 23. The crowd chanted “Bring Them Home!” over and over. President Trump called them personally right after the attack. 😭 More tears.

(I believe these were the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was just killed by Hamas this past Labor Day weekend.)

A 98-year-old WWII Veteran spoke – very powerful. Says he can’t believe what JB has done to this country, but America is still worth fighting for. And the crowd started chanting “Fight! Fight! Fight!” That’s a common chant now since Trump put his fist up last Saturday and told the American people to fight. 

Parents of kids who’ve died of fentanyl, have been killed by illegal aliens, etc. (Last night.) Tears. 

Also, another highlight was Kai – Don Jr.’s daughter – President Trump’s granddaughter. Did you see it? She was absolutely adorable. She must be 17 or so. She told about her relationship with her grandpa: “To me, he’s just a regular grandpa. He gives us candy and soda when our parents aren’t looking.” How he always calls her and asks her how she’s doing in school. When she made the high honor roll, he made copies of it and handed them out to all of his friends and told them how proud he is of her. Lol. She said he sometimes calls her in the middle of the school day and asks her how her golf game is going and tells her about his, and she’ll remind him she’s in school and will have to call him back later. It was sooo funny and personal and just downright sweet. She told about what it was like when she found out he had been shot and she just wanted to know he was okay. Then she said a lot of people have made her grandfather’s life hell, but he’s still standing. I mean, if you didn’t see it, you must find it online and watch it. She only spoke for a couple minutes but it was totally precious. 

And then J. D. Vance: Wow. He was great. I didn’t know until last week about his book, “Hillbilly Elegy” and how Ron Howard directed the movie, based on the book, which was a bestseller. The movie starred Amy Adams and Glenn Close. I’m planning to watch it on Netflix soon. He told about his Mamaw, who raised him because his mother was an addict. It was so funny – during the stories about her he was commenting about how many small towns have had this problem because stupid politicians in D.C. have offloaded all our jobs, entered into horrible trade agreements that benefit other countries while taking advantage of the American taxpayer, and how Donald Trump has taught him about how devastating that has been for American workers, which J.D. experienced directly (the devastating effects on his town).

But throughout his speech, whenever he mentioned his grandmother, she reminded me of me!! Lol. He said she deeply loved the Lord. And she also loved the “F” word. Ha! Ha! He said she passed away just before he deployed for Iraq, and as they were going through her personal things, they found 19 loaded handguns. Ha! Ha! (That’s me, for sure.) One in the silverware drawer. One under her mattress. The crowd was cracking up. He told how when he was in high school he was hanging out with this one kid who was known to be trouble and not a good influence on J.D. at all. So she told J.D. one day, “If you hang around with him again, I’m gonna run him over with my car. And no one will ever know what happened.” Lol. (Never met her, and she’s gone to heaven now, but I love her.)

And then, much to my surprise, he introduced his mother, who is now almost 10 years clean – and she was sitting up in the box with President Trump, right next to Speaker Mike Johnson. And the crowd started chanting, “J.D.’s Mom! J.D.’s Mom! J.D.’s Mom!” over and over. ❤️

*(I think I told you how the JB regime has imprisoned Steve Bannon for the same things as Peter Navarro – as of July 1 they locked him up for 4 months. He is a very powerful and effective voice in support of Trump – on Real America’s Voice and Lindell TV and has something like 1 million subscribers on Rumble! (No one has that many subscribers on Rumble, believe me). Please pray for him, too. 

So, I hope you and Jer watched the convention tonight and loved it as much as I did, but if you didn’t, you don’t know what you missed. Try to watch the people described above – I wouldn’t want you to miss them. 

❤️❤️❤️

Seven Skies

Author of the book

“Plumb Line – Holding Current Events in America Up to God’s Word”

and the BLOG: www.seven-skies.blog