The 761st "Black Panther" Tank Battalion in World War II
by Joe W. Wilson, Jr.
McFarland & Company, 1999
reviewed by Michael Peck
Staff Sgt. Ruben Rivers received a
posthumous Medal of Honor Jan. 13, 1997
Senator Robert Byrd once wrote purple prose to the effect he would rather die than serve with a black G.I.
One can only imagine the tremendous turnout to watch him.
In today's devotional commentary:
To win the race, we must "lay aside every weight" that would drag us down and rob us of our strength and endurance (Hebrews 12:1). This weight may be an excessive desire for possessions, the captivating love of money, an endless pursuit of pleasure, slavery to sinful passions, or a burdensome legalism.
I posit the rulings of Judge Greer as such a burdensome legalism, moreover founded on such bearing of false witness that passeth understanding, leading like a chute to the slaughterhouse, ignoring that pesky retro cliche to wit "Thou Shalt Not Kill".
Our grandson has a feeding tube. Anyone attempting to remove it would be making, crediting Tom Clancy, a bad career move.
The PRC admits to 4,000 executions annually. A FReeper posted three photos of the PLA taking a bound woman from an army truck, to the edge of a ditch; the next photo her head is split as though a scene from Terminator 2.
We are allowed a feeling of security only because of our armed forces, and only as long as political will exists to support them.
Armed forces and political will can murder the innocent every second of every day, and if they do not, it is only because their area is illuminated from a higher location.
