Posted on 05/24/2015 5:02:41 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
Nice Tributes Kathy, thanks.
20,000 MIA in WWII and almost all the POWs form this camp disappeared into Russia.
Good evening, Pro...((HUGS))...hope you are having a wonderful visit.
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Hat Tip and Requiescat in pace
Weaving threads?
Good for you make a blanket for the troops.
Often called The March King, composer and band director John Philip Sousa created music that has been played by bands around the world for more than a hundred years. As Loras John Schissel, music historian and conductor of the Virginia Grand Military Band, said, Sousa is to marches what Beethoven is to symphonies. Sousa understood the power of music to motivate, encourage, and inspire people.
In Old Testament times, the people of Israel were often inspired to compose and sing songs to celebrate Gods help during times of need. When the Lord saved His people from certain destruction by Pharaohs army, Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord . . . I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea! The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation (Ex. 15:1-2).
Music has the power to lift our spirits by reminding us of Gods faithfulness in the past. When were discouraged, we can sing songs and hymns that raise our eyes from the challenging circumstances we face to see the power and presence of the Lord. We are reminded that He is our strength, our song, and our salvation.
INSIGHT
: Mosess song after the Israelites had passed through the Red Sea and were delivered from the pursuing Egyptians has two perspectivesone looking back and one looking forward. In the first verses, Moses reflects on what God has done to deliver His people (vv. 1-2). In the later verses, Moses looks forward to what God will do to establish His people in their new land (vv. 13-18).
"Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You
were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly
more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you
risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you
to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to
take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here?
We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and
belief. It was loyalty and love.
"The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith
that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant
them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep
knowledge-and pray to God we have not lost it-that there is a profound,
moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of
force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so
you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right
not to doubt.
"You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth
dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most
deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty."
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Good evening, mountainlion...thanks for the link. I will spend some time with it tonight.
How is your snow?
If you have never seen max stalling go.
Go see him now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53295iYXaOk&list=PL6P7s7QKxXm0VM4T1BaWXIevvoqERukKM
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Good evening, Janey...((HUGS))...family fun today?
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