Bob Hope – An American Hero (Especially at Christmas)
Bob Hope is My Idea of an American Hero As a young person I always enjoyed Bob Hope and his antics in his black and white movies and later on TV. It took me longer into my adult life to appreciate how great a hero he was. Bob performed for the brave troops in WW2, […]
Continue readingThanksgiving Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln October 3, 1863
Early Thanksgiving Proclamations Excerpt courtesy of www.whatsoproudlywehail.org The First National Proclamation of Thanksgiving was issued by the Continental Congress in November of 1777, following the Colonial victories over British General John Burgoyne in the Battles of Saratoga. In the Proclamation, Congress “recommended to the legislative or executive Powers of these United States to set apart Thursday, the eighteenth […]
Continue readingA Soldier’s Prayer
I looked and looked for something appropriate for Veteran’s Day and when my eyes fell upon this poem titled A Soldier’s Prayer, I stopped looking. Most emergency personnel like the military, police, firemen, doctors, etc. are really people we hope not to see or need. A consequence of this, I believe, is that we don’t […]
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