Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander

should look like on Earth. My family and I are proud to create scenes like that one as a witness to what we believe.
    Whenever I think of all the people we’ve baptized over the years, I always recall a conversation Jep had with one of his buddies in the backseat of our car when he was really young. Jep’s friend Harvey asked him what it meant to be a Christian.
    “Well, when you get to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, my daddy will sit you down and study the Bible with you,” Jep told him. “He’ll make sure you know what he’s talking about. And then he’ll tell you that Jesus is going to be your Lord and when that happens, you can’t act bad anymore. My daddy will ask you if you want Jesus to be your Lord. If you say yes, we’re all going down to the river. We’ll be so excited that we’ll be skippingdown there. My daddy will put you under the water, but he won’t drown you. He’ll bring you back up and everybody will be clapping and smiling. That’s what he’ll do.”
    Nowadays, you don’t see many families—the husband, wife, and children—that are so evangelistic. I think it’s pretty rare in today’s world. The thing that pleases me most about my sons is that no one ever told them to do it. They just decided to be that way. Maybe it was handed down when they heard me telling Bible stories and saw me baptizing people in the river. I didn’t have Jesus in my life until I was twenty-eight. But during the last thirty-eight years of my life, I’ve been telling everyone I meet about him. It was a big change for me. I was converting people to Christianity even before I started making duck calls. Then came the business, the blessing, and the fame, but I’ve stayed the same throughout. Everywhere my sons and I go, we’re telling people the good news about Jesus, blowing duck calls, and making people happy, happy, happy—then down the road we go.

    “My daddy will put you under the water, but he won’t drown you.”

FOUNDING FATHERS
    Rule No. 14 for Living Happy, Happy, Happy
    Read the Bible (We Can Still Save This Once-Great Country—It’s Not Too Late)
    A fter I became a Christian, one of the first changes I made in my life was to take a more active interest in politics and how our government works. I’d never voted until I was twenty-nine, but I decided I ought to do so in order to help put godly men and women in positions of authority—instead of a bunch of heathens—since God works through people.
    After studying several political parties to find out what they believe and stand for, I decided my political ideology was more in line with the Republicans. I definitely was no Democrat—that’s for sure—but I don’t really consider myself one or the other. I’m more of a Christocrat, someone who honors our founding fathers and pays them homage for being godly men at a time when wickedness was all over the world. Our founding fathers started thiscountry and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.
    I’m worried about the United States of America, there’s no question about it. There’s wickedness all over our country. America is a country without morals and principles, and it’s a far cry from the great nation our founding fathers created in 1776. Great men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, who signed the Declaration of Independence and whom you see on our money today, agreed that God and the Bible would be their moral compasses for constructing the greatest nation on Earth. But now we’ve taken the Bible out of schools, we’ve taken the Ten Commandments out of courtrooms, and stores like Walmart aren’t even allowed to publicize Christmas anymore! What kind of country are we living in nowadays?
    It really seems pretty simple to me. We’re in the year A.D . 2013 We’ve been counting time by Jesus for more than two thousand years. He must have done something right! In his Thanksgiving Proclamation in New York on October 3, 1789, Washington, the very first president of the United States, said, “Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and experience.” I’m with George Washington. It was Jefferson, our third president, who said, “Allmen are created equal.” Man didn’t crawl out of the