Key Robert E. Lee: Calling Steve About My 2016 Halloween Dream Return

Halloween 2014

Stephen Young and Bryan Brickner are activists and have been talking and writing together about the US Constitution for more than a decade; Bryan has a Halloween 2016 dream (again) and calls Steve for help …

Bryan: Steve!
Steve: What!?
Bryan: I had a bad dream again.
Steve: Calm down ~ it’ll be all right. What happened this time …
Bryan: Well, it was Halloween 2016 again …
Steve: You saw the same big banner that read, Halloween 2016 Presidential Debate.
Bryan: Right.
Steve: Interesting, once again a Halloween debate prior to the November 2016 presidential election.
Bryan: Yeah, though it wasn’t all the same.
Steve: How so?
Bryan: There was the same two US flags next to podiums on an otherwise empty stage, though this year it wasn’t surrounded by citizens – it was empty.
Steve: Was John Finley Pettigrew there, you know, like last time?
Bryan: He was, still young, dressed in revolutionary garb and unarmed. He stood quiet (like last time) with his focus on the stage.
Steve: So it’s you, lots of empty space, and Pettigrew, the Virginian Revolutionary War soldier who was 18 in 1776 and joined the revolution – and later moved to Michigan, saw it become a state, and died in 1838.

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US Army 1Lt. Robert E. Lee (1838)

Bryan: Right … and 1838 seems important.
Steve: Why?
Bryan: Cuz’ this year there’s someone standing next to Pettigrew holding a key.
Steve: Who?
Bryan: Well, the key holder appeared as US Army 1Lt. Robert E. Lee.
Steve: A young Lee.
Bryan: Yes, like in the portrait.
Steve: And he’s holding a key ~ like an old-fashioned one?
Bryan: Yeah, and when the music starts …
Steve: Music again: Ozzy?
Bryan: It was.
Steve: Children of the Grave encore?
Bryan: Believer.
Steve: ‘I’m a believer, not a deceiver, Mountains move before my eyes.’
Bryan: Yes, that one; when Believer started the key floated from Lee toward the stage.
Steve: And?

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1776 John Finley Pettigrew (died 19 September 1838)

Bryan: And then it ended (again) and I was by Pettigrew’s headstone: then I awoke.
Steve: Well, sounds like it might be alright, you know, with Robert E. Lee’s key and all.
Bryan: You’re right Steve ~ I guess it was hearing Ozzy that got me keyed up.
Steve: Sounds good Bryan ~ and Happy Halloween 2014!
Bryan: You too Steve!
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Believer
Daisley - Osbourne - Rhoads

Watching the time go
And feeling belief grow
Rise above the obstacles
People beseech me
But they'll never teach me
Things that I already know (I know)

Dreams that have shattered
May not have mattered
Take another point of view
Doubts will arise, though
Like chasing a rainbow
I can tell a thing or two (That's true)

You've got to believe in yourself
Or no one will believe in you
Imagination like a bird on the wing
Flying free for you to use (OK baby)

I can't believe they stop and stare
And point their fingers, doubting me
Their disbelief suppresses them
But they're not blind
It's just that they won't see

I'm a believer I ain't no deceiver, Mountains move before my eyes, Destiny planned out I don't need no handout, Speculation of the wise.

Video: Ozzy Osbourne Live 1982 ~ Believer
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Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

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