{"id":8099,"date":"2014-10-15T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-15T18:07:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:07:15","slug":"a_descendant_of_patrick_henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/10\/15\/a_descendant_of_patrick_henry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Descendant of Patrick Henry!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: We have Tom in Columbia, Missouri. Hi, Tom. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, I will say fellow former Overland Park, Kansas, resident. Dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. I used to live there — and you did, too, obviously. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Rush, there\u2019s a hundred things I could to talk to you about, but I will tell you that I\u2019m a grandson of Patrick Henry — a great, great, a lot of great-grandsons.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait! Whoa. You are the great grandson of “Give me liberty or give me death” Patrick Henry?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, that\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No kidding? <\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct. Rush, my wife and I, we don\u2019t have any kids, so your children\u2019s books… We listened to the first one on a road trip. We really enjoyed it. The Rush Revere and The First Patriots<\/a> was in my Kindle queue for quite awhile, for several weeks. I finally got around to reading it a couple days ago. Rush, I know this is a children\u2019s book, but this book had a profound impact on me. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? That\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Your conversations with Patrick Henry? You brought him to life. If there\u2019s one person that I could go back and talk to in history it would be him, and the way you brought him to life in this book? Rush, it made me feel like I was sitting there listening to your conversation, and you made him exactly how I thought he would be.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, wow. You do not know… I\u2019ve got chills and tingles going up my spine here. This is just… You can\u2019t possibly know how you\u2019ve made my day here. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush, it made my day when I read that. So I just wanted to tell you that. I\u2019m glad I got through to tell you that. Seriously, Rush, you do not know. It was just the profound impact.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s just mind-boggling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I had to go back and read through it again, and I was disappointed when you had him in Virginia. When that conversation, that meeting was done, I was like, “No, this can\u2019t be all,” and then when you were back with him in Philadelphia, I was thrilled.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. Look, hang on. I want to send you the new book when it comes out. Mr. Snerdley needs to get your address. Do not hang up, Tom.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back for just a moment here and talk about our last caller, Tom, from Columbia, Missouri, the great, great grandson of Patrick Henry. I don\u2019t have the words to tell you what his call meant to me and to all of us that work on the Rush Revere Adventure Series. We\u2019re a tight little team with our heads down and doing a whole lot of work to get these books right, make sure the mission survives in each one of them and so forth. <\/p>\n

His call was exactly what we are trying to do. We want to bring these great figures from American history to life for people so that they can actually experience who these people were. Not just read about them in a dry, abstract way, in a recounting of history kind of way, but actually go back to these seminal events in American history and take children, our primary target audience, back to these events and let them live them in ways that they can understand and enjoy and be inspired by. <\/p>\n

Here is the great, great grandson of Patrick Henry, an adult, who was moved by the books in exactly the way that we are trying to achieve. I hope you\u2019ll forgive me for talking about this. You might think it\u2019s somewhat of a private matter, but how good that makes me feel, all of us who work on these books feel, because that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re trying to do here. His reaction to it, personal for him, being that Patrick Henry is his great great-grandfather, but brought him back to life. <\/p>\n

<\/a>These are great people. These were crucially important people. And we want everybody to know them, who they were, what they sacrificed, what they believed in, what they gave up, what they contributed and so forth. I mentioned the other day, we\u2019ve got a Rush Revere Facebook page. It\u2019s been out there for a while, but we\u2019re really pumping it now. It\u2019s Facebook.com\/RushRevere<\/a>. We want this page to have something for everyone. We\u2019re going to have personal interviews, behind the scenes lesson plans and so forth. If you go there today, for example, you\u2019ll see a green post for Destination Education. <\/p>\n

Our goal is to create free downloadable lesson plans for parents and teachers and families to use to continue education in American history. To go beyond the books. You know, use the books as a starting point or as a reference, source material, and to have them essentially be a launching pad for people that want to know more and to make that more available. Right there at the Facebook page. <\/p>\n

The Rush Revere website<\/a> is up and running, and that has got its own content as well which is related to the characters in the book, in the series. Young readers and fans can send e-mails to the characters and get replies from Liberty the Talking Horse, many people\u2019s favorite character and so forth. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s a really rewarding thing when I get phone calls like that. A, I\u2019m thankful they got through, that Tom got through. The second thing I\u2019m thankful for is that Snerdley allowed the call through. You never know, some people don\u2019t bring it off when they call and they get rejected. It\u2019s just one of those things that happens. But this all worked out and the guy made it through. He was just fantastic. We ran out of time with him, up against the well-known hard break. I could not be flexible by even a second. So, again, thanks to Tom in Columbia. <\/p>\n