Posted on 03/31/2014 6:23:46 PM PDT by DaveMSmith
On March 14 Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh told members of the House Armed Services committee that there was no war on religious liberty.
The single biggest frustration Ive had in this job is the perception that somehow there is religious persecution inside the United States Air Force, the general told lawmakers. It is not true.
Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) told me the Air Force seems to be the worst offender when it comes to attacks on religious liberty.
If thats true, perhaps Gen. Welsh could explain why a Bible was removed from a POW/MIA Missing Man Table at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. The removal of the Good Book was first reported by the Gannett-owned newspaper Florida Today.
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Ron Crews, the executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, told me he hopes the Air Force will restore the Bible to its rightful place. He called it a symbol of hope and courage for military personnel and their families.
It is sad when military traditions honoring our POWs and MIAs are trumped by pursuits to remove any vestige of the faith that has sustained our warriors since Valley Forge, Crews told me.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
No mention of it here: The ENLISTED Association Honoring Those Who Served
One of my brothers was a POW at Stalag III and Stalag 17 including the Death March in Jan 45. When he died 3 or 4 years ago he still have vivid and total recall of every detail. Thanks for the ping...
You are correct. However, bibles are being targeted. Christianity is being targeted.
Yer post keeps my keel even...things might be tough nowadays, but I’m not even a piker in comparison.
I do, however, have the fortune of having a Hero of your brother’s stature in my small fold of friends, and I value him highly.
God Bless ya, and pray for our GIs.
endless apologies
Ours is actually blue. Jarheads must be color blind. All that sand from the beaches.
Hey, we got nukes.....
Ya make me laugh, Chode! No apology accepted, nor required. My Pop was USAF...retired. He made his Blues look great, but not as good as mine;-). (I think that’s why he asked me to be his best man, at his last wedding...Hehehehehehehehe.)
The irony is I am now a 1stLT in the USAF Auxiliary...a SAR mission pilot...no insulated roof there;-)
Be of good cheer, my FRiend!
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunwards Ive climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a thousand things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
Ive chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air,
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind Ive trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of god.
God Bless...
The only controversy it’s presence would elicit would be that among the libtardian douchbagees, the rightly should be ignored...
Active Duty/Retiree ping.
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