What is Project Appleseed?

[H2O MAN]

The Appleseed project leads to warm apple pies...

 

[PHenry]

PHenry, thanks for the update, but that sounds a little political and soap box speaking.

Huh?

At the end of each event, I always council all in attendance to avail themselves of the system of government that was handed to us by our ancestors. I ask them to write their reps and suggest that post cards are best. I suggest that they "annoy" them with alarming regularity, as I do.

I do not presume to tell them what to say - only that the Founders advised us to remain "alert, active and informed". I even say that in defense of our elected employees - how can they know what we want unless we tell them.

This portion of the events that I run comprises less than 1% of the time spent. It is not part of the program - it is my own opinion and is always presented as such.

Is that being political? Maybe so, but it is not my idea - it is the wish of men like John Adams and George Washington who hoped aloud that we would maintain that which they had sacrificed so much to attain.

Soap box - I guess some might say so, but I have never heard any such comments from people who have attended any events - "mine" or others.

We owe the Founding generation a debt that we literally cannot repay. We can only hope to pay it forward by passing their traditions on to the next generation. That sir, is the mission of Appleseeds - nothing more and nothing less.

I would encourage you to attend an event and see for yourself. I know from experience that your marksmanship would improve - no matter what your current level and also that you would be surprised by the true story of April 19th, 1775. What most of us (99.9%) learnt in school is, well, silly really - a fantasy at best.

I can pretty well guarantee that you will never hear an instructor speak of a particular political candidate / issue while "on the clock", as that would be a breech of protocol and something that we refer to as "off point" - unacceptable by Appleseeds standards.

As to defensive responses - we are all required to "check our ego at the door", which should preclude any angry responses, but we are all most passionate about what we do and I suppose that might lead to such an outburst - especially after seeing some of the posts, a couple of which might be construed as "insulting".

It can be very frustrating when you work so hard to get the word out and then see folks making negative comments who have not attended an event. If fact, that is the common denominator of posts on any 2A related forum that have bad things to say about Appleseeds - they have not been to an event. It's enough to make a hard working volunteer cranky.

If you go to www.rwva.org and click on "Appleseeds" you can look up the schedule of events - we are nationwide for sure now and will be hosting 50 events on the weekend of April 18 / 19 alone. More than 1400 rifles will sound the Liberty bell at 1600 hours EST simultaneously - a national first as far as we know.

As to instructing - anything you do that promotes safe shooting is good by me and should be good by any RWVA instructor, so keep up the good work and again, try to join us for an event.

Thanks,
PH

 

[Lovesbeer99]

To make this simple, just go back and read my last post.