With Father’s Day approaching, we should remind ourselves that the Founding Fathers were not only America’s symbolic fathers, but many were pulling dual duties as real fathers as well. John Adams was the father to six children, four of whom lived to adulthood. John’s commitment to our nation and his family is worthy of honor as we prepare to celebrate our country’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. John Adams wrote to John Quincy that … “in any future Time, your Country’s Liberties should be in Danger, and suffer every human Evil, rather than Give them up.” As the relationship between America and Britain deteriorated throughout the late 1700s, John was frequently called away from home to participate in both the First and Second Continental Congresses. Though absent for extended periods of time, he made sure to write to his family whenever he could while he worked tirelessly for the nation’s future. As many of my readers know, becoming a parent transforms one’s outlook on life. Any parent knows that, from the moment you hold your child for the first time, your responsibilities shift towards taking care of them. The love and moments you share with them are irreplaceable. John had to sacrifice many of those precious moments with his children to serve his country, yet his letters show that his love for them never changed, and he longed to be with them. In a heart-wrenching letter to Abigail in 1776, John wrote that “It is a cruel Reflection, which very often comes across me, that I should be separated so far, from those Babes, whose Education And Welfare lies so near my Heart: But greater Misfortunes than these, must not divert Us from Superior Duties.” While he ended this line reminding himself of his duty to his country, he nevertheless made it clear that he longed to be with his family. He further wrote of his desire to “to take a Walk with you in the Garden — to go over to the Common — the Plain — the Meadow. I want to take Charles in one Hand and Tom in the other, and Walk with you, Nabby [John’s nickname for daughter Abigail] on your Right Hand and John upon my left, to view the Corn Fields, the orchards, &c.” The letters show that, though he may have been a revolutionary, he was always a father first in his heart; nothing brought him greater joy than being with his children and his wife. John suffered through the heartbreak of outliving most of his children. His only surviving daughter, Abigail , died of breast cancer in 1813 at age 48 in the family home; his second son, Charles, succumbed to alcoholism in 1800 at age 30. Under the pressures of the Second Continental Congress, John kept encouraging his children to be strong. In a letter written in 1776 to his eldest son (and future president) John Quincy Adams, he asked him to recognize “how many Losses, Dangers, and Inconveniences, have been borne by your Parents, and the Inhabitants of Boston in general for the Sake of preserving Freedom for you, and yours,” reminding him of the revolution’s importance and the sacrifices others had made. Later, while occupied with the vice presidency, John made sure that his children had a secure path for their future. In a 1790 letter to John Quincy regarding his son’s future employment, John assures him that “If, after your Term with Mr Parsons [the jurist John Quincy was apprenticing under] expires your Judgment, Inclination and Advice of your Friends lead you to Boston, you shall have my full Consent and Approbation.” This Father’s Day, let us honor John Adams as not only one of America’s founding fathers, but as a father who wanted to secure a bright future for his children and for the children of other families across America. A man who orchestrated significant moments, such as George Washington’s appointment as commanding general and selecting Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence, while cherishing the beauty of fatherhood, knowing that he and his family sacrificed greatly on the road to independence and self-rule. John Adams wrote to John Quincy that he and his siblings should “follow the virtuous Example if, in any future Time, your Country’s Liberties should be in Danger, and suffer every human Evil, rather than Give them up.” These are not only words for his children, but words that should resonate with us today as we remember the sacrifices our founding fathers and mothers made for us and our country. May we always be on guard to ensure our liberties remain intact. READ MORE from Jackie Cushman: Note to Georgia’s Republican Candidates: Be for Something in 2022 Our National Institutes of Health Should Be Better Jackie Cushman is President of the Adams Memorial Foundation.  The post Founding Father’s Day: John Adams’s Parental and Patriotic Duty appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

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I’m one of the lucky sons. One of the blessed sons. Because I not only had a father, but a good one. He provided for us and put a roof over our heads and food on the table. And he expected things of us. But he did so much more. He got married right after he graduated college, but he and my mom never took much time to be a married couple. There were always kids. By the time he was 30, he had four of us to take care of. Was he ready for it all? Fathers didn’t ask that question in the 1950s. They were probably better off. No matter how long we delay such things, we’re never ready. I remember as a kid looking at pictures of him before he was the man he became. He looked like a grown-up even in his high school yearbook. Why did he sacrifice so much for us? I learned as I got older that calling what he did a sacrifice would have irritated him: he did what people did. No one back then thought postponing adolescence into their 30s was an option. They started things. Started their lives. Started families and careers. One picture from his wedding is my favorite: the young groom grinning as he watches his bride cut their wedding cake, celebrating on a rooftop at a neighborhood building. No wedding planners. No exotic honeymoons. It was a drive to Niagara Falls and back to life. John and Christina Habeeb cutting their wedding cake in 1954. (Courtesy Lee Habeeb) After he left the Air Force, where he served as an officer training future officers, he started teaching history and coaching hoops at a public school in northern New Jersey. He became a department head, then assistant superintendent, and one day, he was the boss. There was a sense of inevitability about that outcome. Some people are born to run things. What were his dreams? The child of immigrant parents, he didn’t think much about such things. His generation was too practical. They didn’t sit around talking about how to change the world. They were too busy trying to change their world. My dad’s life—our life—was a slice of the American Dream. A rental house every summer at the Jersey Shore. Family night at the drive-in movies. Trips to New York City to see a Knicks game or a Broadway play. A pool in the yard and a basketball hoop attached to the garage. He was an old-school dad. There wasn’t a lot of hugging. Or praise. On the rare occasion he said something nice, it meant something. “Not bad,” he would say after a good effort. If it was a particularly good effort, he would say “not bad” twice. He wasn’t a man who looked back on life with regret. He had little use for taking his own temperature. He had a temper. I was afraid of him, but not physically. I was afraid to let him down. Disappoint him. When he yelled, it made me tremble. His temper had that kind of power. I remember the fights he had with my mom. I never understood what the fights were about, but what kid does? Sometimes, I thought one of them would just call it quits. But always, the next day came. They carried on. As time passed, the temper faded. As my dad got more comfortable in his own skin, as he was better able to navigate his own emotions, he got calmer. Meet him today, and you’d call him laid-back. As I got older, I came to appreciate the small things, the daily habits and rituals that my dad and my mom shared. Those rituals and rhythms of life gave me a great sense of stability. A great sense that relationships can last. That love can last. The coffee he started for my mom every morning. The daily run to the supermarket. The evening coffee out by the pool, listening to WOR on the transistor radio. The early dinners at a local bar for pizza and muscles marinara. The card games, which mom always seemed to win. The habits of love were there for me to observe. And imitate. The love I witnessed didn’t look like anything I saw in the movies. It looked like something better. Something within reach. The constancy. The consistency. The mutual understanding. None of it was terribly exciting. But it was good for me. It was good for my parents, too. “The most important thing a father can do for their children is love their mother,” Father Theodore Hesburgh, former President of Notre Dame University said. My dad, not a religious guy, would agree. And he would agree with theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who said this in a letter to his niece before her wedding day: “It’s not your love that sustains your marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.” That lesson may be the greatest my dad taught me: marriage sustains love. My dad taught me big and small things. He taught me how to tie a tie and throw a spiral. He taught me to think through problems and see both sides of an argument. He taught me the importance of hard work, and that talent was overrated. He encouraged me to take risks but not be reckless. He taught me how to play blackjack and poker. How to lead and learn. He really taught me how to play basketball. And the importance of sticking things out. “Finish what you start,” he often told me. And always, he was shaping my character. Trying to draw out of me the best version of myself—which I too often resisted. Turning boys into men is no duckwalk. It’s something the state can’t do. Or a social worker. It’s something mothers can’t do alone, as hard as they may try—and as good and heroic as they are. Fathers are uniquely qualified to do this work. And uniquely situated. Dads play a critical—and underappreciated—role in their daughter’s lives, too. I know I would not be the man I am today, or the husband and father I am, without his example. He’s 94 years old and still influencing me. Still teaching me. To all of the good dads out there, thank you. Not enough is written about you, the men in this country taking on the responsibilities and pleasures of fatherhood. And disappointments too. Your steadiness and steadfastness may not make for good fiction, but it makes for a good life. Your effort to shape the next generation of husbands and fathers is the most important work in America. Originally published in Newsweek. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post A Tribute to My Father—and Good Fathers Everywhere appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Army’s 250th Anniversary was quite a show. The parade featured tanks and soldiers from every U.S. War era, missile defense systems, attack helicopters, drones, and even robot dogs. Take a look: NEW: Army parade features futuristic “ghost robot dog” on display—and it’s straight out of a sci-fi movie. The future has arrived. The ghost robot dog is a cutting-edge U.S. Army innovation used for reconnaissance and bomb detection missions. Built for danger, these robotic… pic.twitter.com/WQjT1Ra0dB — The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) June 15, 2025 NEW: Army parade features futuristic “ghost robot dog” on display—and it’s straight out of a sci-fi movie. The future has arrived. The ghost robot dog is a cutting-edge U.S. Army innovation used for reconnaissance and bomb detection missions. Built for danger, these robotic dogs are designed to reduce the risk to human and animal life in high-stakes combat zones. They can walk up to 2 mph and sprint at nearly 7 mph. Okay that’s pretty cool! THE FUTURE OF THE ARMY – ROBOT DOGS! pic.twitter.com/d3wUSrZNzf — Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) June 14, 2025 Military had more to share about the progress of Army’s robot dogs: The Army has sent at least one “robot dog” armed with an artificial intelligence-enabled gun turret to the Middle East for testing as a fresh counter-drone capability for U.S. service members, service officials confirmed. Photos published to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service last week show a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Quadrupedal-Unmanned Ground Vehicle, or Q-UGV, armed with what appears to be an AR-15/M16-pattern rifle on rotating turret undergoing “rehearsals” at the Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center in Saudi Arabia in mid-September as part of a recent counter-unmanned aerial system exercise. The specialized gun turret, which features a large electro-optical targeting system with “Lone Wolf” emblazoned across the side, appears to be the same “artificial intelligence-enabled” system that the Army recently put through its paces during Operation Hard Kill, a separate counter-UAS exercise led by the service’s Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York, in August. A U.S. Army Central spokesman told Military.com that the armed robot dog was one of several “non-counter-sUAS” systems tested alongside 15 counter-drone platforms at Red Sands during the September test and that the gun engaged several static ground targets, but declined to elaborate on its potential applications. DEVCOM did not respond to a request for comment. The Defense Department has been gradually incorporating robot dogs into its formations over the last several years. Currently, Q-UGVs perform functions ranging from explosive ordnance disposal; boosting perimeter security at sensitive installations; and enhancing intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance capabilities for U.S. service members deployed in austere environments, among others. While still relatively new technology, robot dogs have already proven capable of going places inhospitable to human troops and performing tedious jobs such as perimeter patrols longer and without need to rest. But beyond these operations, the Pentagon has increasingly experimented with mounting weapons systems on robot dogs. The Marine Corps, in particular, has tested quadrupedal robots outfitted with both Onyx Industries’ SENTRY remote weapon system and the M72 LAW anti-tank rocket launcher, while the Army has considered outfitting mechanized canines with the new 6.8mm XM7 rifle the service recently fielded under its Next Generation Squad Weapon program to replace the M4 carbine. And the U.S. military isn’t the only fighting force pursuing four-legged weapon combat robots. In May, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army debuted its own robot dog armed with a variant of the 5.8x42mm QBZ-95 assault rifle during a training exercise in Cambodia. Outside of the parade route, the robot dogs were open to the public and its handlers were giving demonstrations: This is an amazing experience for a child. A robot dog and a boy played fetch during the Army’s 250th birthday celebration today. pic.twitter.com/wrxiEmuuf8 — ????? ????? ????? (@ViolaLeighBlues) June 14, 2025