I used this photo because although he is Vietnamese, he was caught in the act of doing what all Combat Medics and Navy Corpsmen do, very often at the cost of their lives. As compared to the widespread medical community, the enlisted men (and women) trained as Combat Medics and Navy Corpsmen have only basic …
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Time to Take on the Cartels
June 4, 2013: United States Marine, Armando Torres III, has been kidnapped by a Mexican Drug Cartel. (See”US Marine, relatives kidnapped from Mexico border ranch” NBC News.com)This young man is one of our own. Yes, he was born in Mexico, but he is a United States Marine, and he has been kidnapped by a Mexican …
A powerful witness of Jesus Christ
In these perilous and trying times, the Book of Mormon is a powerful witness of Jesus Christ, for it testifies throughout its pages, with power and conviction, and without the slightest equivocation, that Jesus is the Christ, the Redeemer of the world. With neither wobbling nor oscillation, it predicts our fate if we heed Him …
Government, you’ve forgotten your place!
“I’m not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born-free American woman, wife, mother, and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place.” Wow! Powerful words spoken by Becky Gerritson. (See “Tea Party Leader Tears Up During Passionate Account of Political Intimidation”http://www.theblaze.com/stories/..) We need to stick that statement on our bath room mirrors: …
Act II
We lived prior to our birth, for we are eternal beings. Yes, we lived in the presence of our Father in Heaven. He is a glorified, resurrected being. He created an earth for us to come to, that we too might take on a body which will one day also be resurrected. This is Act …
Like Unto Jesus
There is something to be said about humility in a man. That the proud eventually fall is an uncontested truism. The proud tend to selfishness, and serve no one. The humble man on the other hand, is acquainted with service. In serving others he serves God, for in serving, he patterns his life after the …
Reverence our Redeemer
I have always held in kind regard my kinsmen, the Maori people of New Zealand. Here comes one of the greatest Moari singers of all time, Sir Howard Morrison, singing the beautiful hymn, “Whakaaria Mai” or as we know it “How Great Thou Art” on the occasion of a visit to New Zealand by Elizabeth, …
Death of Little Ones
For a week I’d harbored a terrible premonition of death. I couldn’t shake it. I was going to take a bullet, I was almost sure. That was the Summer of 1971, and I was a cop working the hot spot of Austin, Texas, the East Side. It was quiet that night, until a call came …
Time
Time. Time is life. Time is measured in this life only. It is fleeting. The moments taken to write this post are immediately in the past, never to be regained. Shall we not make the most of it while we have it? Priorities? Which of us as parents would not give our lives for our …
Consider Your Ways
LEST WE FORGET…this nation, the most wonderful upon the face of the earth, has been blessed to be free because those in the past looked in unison to the Lord Jesus Christ. No more. There was a time when this nation looked to the Sabbath as a day of rest. No more. There was a …