Reality Control
Sam Aurelius Milam III

The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia.  He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago.  But where did that knowledge exist?  Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated.  And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.  "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future:  who controls the present controls the past."  And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.  Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting.  It was quite simple.  All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory.  "Reality control," they called it;  In Newspeak, "doublethink." — from 1984, Section One, Chapter 3 by George Orwell

It's generally accepted that this nation began on July 4, 1776.  It's taught in all of the schools.  It's proclaimed in all of the media.  It's a part of our heritage.  It's also a lie.  There's even a second lie, about which nation is designated in the first lie.  The second lie is that this nation has been here all along.  However, prior to the existence of the present United States of America, there were on this continent two other unions that had the same name.  The second United States of America had a constitution called the Articles of Confederation.  Its form of government was very different from that of the present United States of America.  For example, it didn't have an executive branch.  The point, however, is that the identical names don't mean much.  They only make it easier to perpetuate the lie.  They were entirely different unions.  The first union wasn't even a single nation at all.
The second United States of America began on March 1, 1781, when the Articles of Confederation went into force.  The present United States of America began on March 4, 1789, when the Congress met for the first time under the authority of the present Constitution.  Neither of those dates is July 4, 1776.  Therefore, the Fourth of July doesn't commemorate the beginning of either nation.
If all of the records proclaim that the country began on July 4, 1776 and has been here ever since, and if everyone accepts the lies, then the lies pass into history and become truth.  However, the lies aren't the truth yet.  The U.S. ministry of lies missed one lone copy of one lone book.  That book passed through unknown hands for about 100 years and ended up in mine.  That one lone book defies the lies.

Under the terms of the constitution (art. vii.), its ratification by nine states was sufficient to establish it between the states so ratifying it.  Accordingly, when, on July 2, 1788, the ratification by the ninth state was read to congress1, a committee was appointed to prepare an act for putting the constitution into effect;  and on September 13, 1788—in accordance with the recommendations made by the convention in reporting the constitution—congress appointed days for choosing electors, etc., and resolved that the first Wednesday in March then next (March 4, 1789) should be the time, and the then seat of congress (New York) the place, for commencing government under the new constitution.  Proceedings were had in accordance with these directions, and on March 4, 1789, congress met, but, owing to the want of a quorum, the house did not organize until April 1st, nor the senate until April 6th.  Washington took the oath of office on April 30th.  The constitution became the law of the land on March 4, 1789. — Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1889

The celebration of the beginning of this nation on July 4 is a lie.  However, Reality Control isn't yet complete.  It hasn't claimed my memory.  The lone copy of Bouvier's Law Dictionary still exists.  When the book is gone, when I'm dead, when my writing has all been dropped into a memory hole, when all of the records are "rectified", and when everyone chooses to forget the truth, then the lie will become the truth.

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But actually, he thought as he readjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery.  It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.  Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connection with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connection that is contained in a direct lie.  Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version.  A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head.  For example, the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at a hundred and forty-five million pairs.  The actual output was given as sixty-two millions.  Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfilled.  In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than a hundred and forty-five millions.  Very likely no boots had been produced at all.  Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared.  All one knew was the every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot.  And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small.  Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain. — from 1984, Section One, Chapter IV by George Orwell

Heavenly See
Sam Aurelius Milam III

Here's health to you and to our Corps which we are proud to serve.  In many a strife we've fought for life and never lost our nerve.  If the Army and the Navy ever look on heaven's scenes,  they will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines. —The third stanza from The Marines' Hymn Source:  International Lyrics Playground

What would be the point of having Marines guard the streets in Heaven?  Imagine the scene.
Smoke from the preliminary bombardment drifts across the Heavenly Landscape.  At the Beach, just outside of the Pearly Gates, empty landing craft bob in the waves.  In the distance, troop carriers and cargo ships loom darkly.  Smaller craft are ferrying supplies ashore.
God watches uncertainly as a group of dirty grunting Marines pushes a U.S. flag upright, atop the Throne.  The flag has a golden fringe.  A Marine film crew has them do it over and over again, trying to film it correctly, so that it will look spontaneous.  Once the standard is upright, the successful Marines support it with salvaged Golden Cobblestones, pilfered from the Golden Streets, to keep it from falling over.
Throngs of cheering Angels line the bombarded Golden Streets, waving tiny U.S. flags.  They're free at last.  Gabriel plays a medley of John Philip Sousa marches on his Horn.  St. Peter sits at a folding table in a field tent and discusses the terms of occupation with the admiral and his staff.  Jesus brings them coffee and donuts.  Satan begins to organize a Secret Underground Resistance Movement.  Cherubim and Seraphim begin the long process of clearing the Golden Rubble that's left over from the bombardment.  Grim faced marines guard the Golden Streets, suspiciously watching all of those Angels.  The Angels whistle innocently, scuff their Golden Slippers in the Dirt, and keep their Hands balled up in their Pockets, hoping to hide the Bulging Purses that are filled with pilfered Golden Cobblestone Fragments.
A 13-hour documentary called Victory At See is filmed in IMAX HD.  The ghost of Richard Rodgers is rounded up to write the score.  The Herald Angels perform the sound track.  The ghost of Leonard Graves does the narration.  The footage of the marines erecting the flag is used for the opening credits.  Work begins on retakes, to replace the combat footage with something that looks more authentic.
Nobody questions anything in the documentary.  It's all accepted as The Gospel Truth.  Everybody who watches it is moved to tears.