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Remains of Soldier Returned to Wife Who Never Remarried, After 63 Years

Services for SFC Gantt: Korean War POW returns to US, Inglewood, Saturday, 28th of December

(LOS ANGELES) - Army Sergeant First Class Joseph Gantt, whose remains were returned to his wife and family 63 years after the former POW was captured during the Korean War, will be laid to rest with full military honors on Saturday, December 28, 2013.

SFC Gantt was born in Maryland in 1924 and joined the Army in 1942. He served with distinction in the South Pacific during WWII. He met his wife, formerly Clara Edwards, on a train from Texas to Los Angeles in 1946 and married in June 1948.

The least of These My Brothers... Requiem For Ron

Ron was always bringing home the halt and the lame, tramps off boxcars (it was the Thirties, after all, and he seemed to be fascinated by their vagrant spirit), feral cats, orphaned or sick dogs.

(DAYTONA BEACH) - His 70th birthday on December 23 eleven years ago, like Landor's, was his last. Ron was the youngest of the four of us; had therefore the most to prove; and somehow for that reason was the best of us.

My Mother tried early to contain, perhaps protect him. Our house was on a hill, without a fence, overlooking the highway.

Be Indian BUT Not in INDIA

The sons of police officers believe they have a license to rape and kill. Talent cannot take you far amid such bad governance.

(NEW DELHI) - This is worth a read. Who ever put this together (is no fool and has the right vision about India) makes sense and is an eye opener.

I remember Brits in our own country India, Indians use to say YES SIR joining their hands and bowing to them. What for? Because of the white skin? No wonder Brit's ruled the world and took us as fools? India would have been Britain if our ancestors were smart enough.

Christmas 2013 in Bethlehem

Nowhere can we hear the same singers mix Christmas and patriotic songs in the Manger Square and the Shepherds’ field.

(BETHLEHEM) - Christmas 2013 in Bethlehem (Beit Laham, Aramaic for House of Laham, the Canaanitic God of Sustenance) is still a very special and meaningful time even under the brutal Israeli apartheid occupation.

We are not talking about the visual aspects and the unique religious services at the Church of Nativity (you can now follow these live stream for example on the link shown below).

Moral Monday Service of Redemption

Monday, December 23, 2013, 4:00 PM, Halifax Mall - Behind the NC General Assembly, 16 W. Jones St. Raleigh,

(RALEIGH) - On November 26th, the NC NAACP and the Forward Together Moral Movement delivered a letter to Gov. McCrory signed by 3,000 people of good will calling on him to convene a Special Redemption Session of the legislature by December 23rd to rescind the laws that deny Medicaid to nearly 500,000 North Carolinians and unemployment benefits to 170,000 families.


Since that letter was delivered, over 5,000 more people have signed on.

Pitiful Party Politics

We’re spending $10 million per hour, and $81 billion in the new annual budget, on an operation that many top officials and experts have said generates hostility toward our country.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - In America, Republicans generally prefer to spend money on wars; Democrats on public needs—food, housing, education.

Democrats have proposed extending federal unemployment benefits for an additional year at $25 billion. Many Republicans have opposed an extension, calling it too costly.

Senator Kirk`s War Prayer

With shut lids the senator, unconscious of his presence, continued with his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal, "Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!"

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Senator Kirk was praying to Senators Schumer and Menendez, or rather to his god but for their benefit. He was praying in his office where the three were gathered late at night. He was praying for a chance to drop bombs on Iran.

An aged stranger entered the office without a sound, despite the closed door. ...

Misguided Policy on Puerto Rico

The policy announced by Senators Wyden and Murkowski will delegitimize whatever results stem from a referendum and derail the process towards an ultimate solution on status.

(SAN JUAN The Hill) - In an unprecedented letter to the presidents of the Commonwealth, Statehood, and Independence parties of Puerto Rico, Senators Wyden and Murkowski, chairman and majority leader of the Senate Energy Committee with jurisdiction over the political status of Puerto Rico, ruled out developed Commonwealth as an option that may be presented to the people of Puerto Rico in a future referendum.

The policy expressed by Senators Wyden and Murkowski goes against the right of self-determination of the Puerto Rican people.

Blacks Ridiculed Again by the Mormon Church

Only in the recent past has the “Complete History” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints come to the attention of its own membership, much less to the under developed regions of the world.

(MONROVIA, Liberia, West Africa) - For several years now, every Tuesday evening I have had the great privilege of hosting “Teaching The Truth”, an LDS focused broadcast to the Christian and Mormon listeners of Worship FM 101.7 in Monrovia, the capital City of Liberia, West Africa.

I have come to know several of the station managers and a number of the more frequent callers to this weekly program. Through their comments, questions and photographs, I have been genuinely moved to see the application of their unyielding faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins

If Richard Dawkins argues for evolution with a passion and, that “natural selection is a cumulative process with graded ramps of slowly increasing complexity,” then he advocates a creative process that necessitates mind-brain-intelligence, in order to be able to choose and select.

(KELOWNA, BC) - Is Biology Professor Richard Dawkins actually a Believer, and doesn’t know it? In a video, at the pearly gate, Dawkins asked the man in the sky; what kind of God are you? Thor-Zeus-Apollo-Yahweh or?

Why did you conceal yourself? This is not a very profound enquiry from a serious scientist.