Count me in as an Oath Keeper.

I committed to the oath five times while serving my country and never felt that it didn't apply to me as a private citizen. Upon retiring from the U.S. Navy I had more time available to become a better informed and engaged citizen in this blessed experiment of "self-government" provided by our inspired Founders. This lead to a renewed search for truth, and began a process of self-education involving the Constitution and the principles of good government.

Some of the issues I studied were on the Dark Side: the Randy Weaver case, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Branch-Davidian Massacre, the deception behind the United Nations, the Federal Reserve Act, the Bilderberg Group, the Tri-Lateral Commission, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Royal Institute for International Affairs, The Skull and Bones Society, The Bohemian Club, the JFK assassination and the resulting Warren Commission cover-up, and the 9/11 Commission white-washing to name a "few".

On the Light Side (as in "Truth and Light"): I found the John Birch Society, Ezra Taft Benson, Jews for the Preservation of Gun Ownership (JPFO), The Gunowners of America, Boston T. Party (Kenneth Royce), Bill Cooper, Michael New, Devvy Kidd, Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., W. Cleon Skousen, Pastor Chuck Baldwin, Alex Jones, Ron Paul and the Campaign for Liberty, AZ state legislator Karen Johnson, and many more people who were engaged in fighting for the cause of liberty.

However, in the back of my mind one element seemed missing, yet I couldn't identify it until I heard about a group that expressed the term.... OATH KEEPERS!

To all the Oath Keepers I say, "Be courageous. Be true to yourself. Stay the course."

The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.

Steve Graw

USN, retired

Combat Vet, USMC Stands by his Oath

I served 4 years in the USMC. I am sick of the situation and in the inability of the government to act in a proper fashion. I am an ardent supporter of the constitution as it was written. I wish to stand with you and your organization.

As far as military service I served in operation enduring freedom from February 7, 2003 to June 3, 2003 and saw combat in Iraq. I served with 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion. We were attached to Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division for the duration of Operation Iraqi Freedom

Again, I am intensely interested in the organization itself and what it stands for. As far as political views, if they are important, I stand with the views of Ron Paul in nearly every sense.

God Bless,

Sgt. Jason Brian Hitt
USMC Veteran

Testimony of an Active Duty Navy Corpsman With Third Battalion, 14th Marines

Hello all:

I am third class Petty Officer DeVito , William L., a Navy Corpsman with the third Battalion 14th Marines. My service to my country was always based on the tradition of my father and my grandfather's, of the defense of the people of the united states, the constitution and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.

Somewhere along the way, our country has lost its values and abandoned its identity as a whole. The freedom that this country stood for is in decline, and it will take extra-ordinary men and women, to restore those ideals, and solidify them as our fore fathers did.

I am not a politician, don't really care for politics, but I do feel obligated to mention a champion of the ideals of the REPUBLIC.......Ron Paul, the Congressman from Texas. His ideals coincide with my own, which are based on the promotion and defense of the constitution.

One of the very best things we can do is support men and women with his ideals, whom truly represent and promote our best interests.

Oath keepers, and organizations like it, are great ways for us to become unified.

Unity, brotherhood, discipline in this cause, is the only way we can march toward a bright future for our children, and the survival of our ideals of freedom and equality, and the whole of the REPUBLIC.

God bless

Thank you

Petty Officer DeVito


NOTE FROM OATH KEEPERS:

Some of the bravest men on the battlefield are the corpsmen and medics who so very often ignore enemy fire to do their best to save lives and to comfort the fallen. Their devotion to the men they care for is legendary and it is no accident that so many of them have been awarded the Medal of Honor.

Oath Keepers Update and SITREP

"O.K."!

The response to Oath Keepers has been amazing and also a bit overwhelming, with thousands of hits each day, hundreds of emails, and multiple invitations to appear on talk radio shows - all for a blog that has only existed for a week! We take that as a good sign that we have struck a chord, and that we were correct in our assessment that there was a need for this effort.

We are extremely grateful, honored, and humbled by the incredible response from the many wonderful veterans, current military, and other patriotic citizens who have stepped up to offer a hand, and for the trust you have placed in us by your willingness to sign your names or otherwise openly associate with this effort. We only hope that we are up to the task.

We do feel in our hearts that this effort has the potential to change history for the better and to forestall or even prevent this nation from ever experiencing the horrors that plagued so many other nations in the 20th Century. We are convinced that it is not too late, that there can be a turning of the tide - if we (and that means you too!) can reach enough of our brothers in arms and remind them of their oath, teach them more about what it is they swore to defend, and steel their resolves to stand firm if/when their oath is tested. We feel honor bound to do all we possibly can to achieve that mission.

To paraphrase General Washington yet again, the fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this Army - and this Marine Corps, This Air Force, This Navy and the National Guard units of these sovereign states.

This effort can have a tremendous impact on that courage and conduct.

It's success depends on you.

In addition to you doing your part to spread the word and contribute your testimonials, we welcome any suggestions you may have on how to improve Oath Keepers and how to best spread the message. This is an effort that by all rights should be driven largely by you, our fellow Oath Keepers.

What Are We Doing Now and Next?

We are in the midst of building a professional site that will be at www.oathkeepers.org. this blog will continue even after the main site is up and will serve as the permanent blog for Oath Keepers (acessable both here at blogspot and through the main site). We are also considering the addition of a discussion forum at the main site.

We orginally were going to wait until that site was finished before unveiling Oath Keepers, but recent events prompted us to bump up the timeline by starting this blog. Still, we had no idea the response would be so dramatic.

We are also busy filming some video testimonials and othe short films for posting on youtube and elsewhere, which can be used by you to spread the message.

And we have a major outreach effort we are about to launch that will likely have its own stand-alone website. It will be both controvercial (very!) and ambitious, and will require some serious fundraising to make it viable, so we will likely apply some of the grass-roots fundraising tactics that worked so well for the Ron Paul campaign moneybomb efforts, such as dedicated fundraising websites and videos.

But regardless of whether that pans out, we will still go forward and do all we can, with whatever resources are at hand. And we hope to design most of our outreach efforts so you can directly take part, with no need to spend a dime - just your time and effort.

Suffice it to say we will be incredibly busy over the next couple of weeks. However, while we work as fast as we can, we will still be posting Oath Keeper testimonials, and a few other items as they seem appropriate. In addition, the editor of S.W.AT. Magazine, Denny Hansen, has given use pemission to post some articles by Stewart Rhodes that were orignially published in S.W.AT. Magazine. Those articles touch on the three-pronged mission of Oath Keepers:

1. Remind them of their oath;

2. Teach them more about what they swore to defend so they will be better able to see when an order violates the Constitution and the rights of the people, and is thus unlawful;

3. Steel their resolve to take a stand and do the right thing, whatever the cost.

As one of our core group members put it, our mission is to "reach, teach, and inspire" all who took the oath. The testimonials are a powerful part of that effort, and the video testimonials, especially those by combat veterans, will be vital to our success.

We hope you find the testimonials and the S.W.A.T. Magazine articles valuablee to your own committment to keep your oath and in your efforts to reach others. And within the next week or so you can expect to see new videos, the addition of the professional site, and the announcement of some powerful outreach efforts.

Oath Keepers - "Not on Our Watch!"