Dear Compatriots,
Today I have asked Compatriot and Co-Founder William Buvinger to say a few words for me at the charter meeting of the Colorado Society of the War of 1812 in Denver, Colorado.
A few years ago, Brother Buvinger and I were discussing the idea of a State Society for Colorado and from there the dream was born to form the society. Also speaking with Bonnie Karp of the Daughters of the War of 1812 about her interest in the society helped to enforce the effort to build the state society.
From those discussions the seeds were planted, and the flower has now bloomed and is signified by your presence in this room today and has bought forth a garden of people whose ancestors help save the nation.
Let us renew our ancestor’s memories and remember the ideal they fought for from the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, North to the Canadian border, to the Battle along the Western Frontier, and South to the Battle of New Orleans, the nation they helped to preserve is a gift to us today, a gift we always need to remember every time we heard the Star-Spangled Banner.
It was fought on our home ground, on our land and the cost in the lives of our people and military were high. No one sat this war out, it came to us by gun and tomahawk, on land and sea, by ships and cannons, and there were no neutrals.
In the year 2012, we will be honoring the Two-Hundred-year anniversary of the War of 1812. Let us start today to build in the State of Colorado something to remind the people of Colorado this was not some little issue by a few people but was a Second American Revolution which told the world, we as Americans would be here as a nation and a shining hope to the world.
Ladies and Gentlemen: May God Bless the United States of America and all
Co-Founder & 1st President Garry Brewer
those who served and protect us.
Regards,
Garry W. Brewer
President
Colorado Society, War of 1812