This seems so familiar...

-PLUGGERS

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We would all feel better...

-card

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REGRET: Worrying about the past

-Illinois country road

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 "The past cannot be recalled and you can do nothing about it.

You can sit down and be miserable and you can go round and round in circles of regret for the rest of your life, but it will make no difference to what you have done...We must never for a second worry about anything that cannot be affected or changed by us. 

It is a waste of energy."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and its Cure

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Weather Disasters and Education Disasters

"The Real Purpose of Schools

Schools exist for the education of children. 

Schools do not exist to provide ironclad jobs for teachers, billions of dollars in union dues for teachers unions, monopolies for educational bureaucracies, a guaranteed market for teachers college degrees or a captive audience for indoctrinators."

Thomas Sowell 

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Guarding the Flock Against Wolves

-meme

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25 years ago, 911--May we all aspire to emulate this man's courage and patriotism

Rick Rescorla

The Hero Who Saved 2,700 Lives on 911

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"...thousands of people were already moving because Rescorla had not waited for permission. He kept them moving. He kept them off the elevators.

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Those who were guided to safety by Rescorla reported that he sang while he did it. His songs were familiar to him. He’d sung them in crisis before, in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam in November 1965.

At that time, he was a young United States Army lieutenant from Hayle, Cornwall, England. He walked the perimeter of the U.S. camp, under fire, singing Cornish hymns calmly to his platoon into the night. One was based on the Welsh song “Men of Harlech”:

Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming;


Can't you see their spearpoints gleaming?


See their warriors' pennants streaming


To this battlefield.


Men of Cornwall stand ye steady;


It cannot be ever said ye


for the battle were not ready;

Stand and never yield!

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...A bullhorn in a crowded stairway is a crude instrument, but it was enough. The people who had resented the drills now found they already knew the steps.

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Thirteen of the firm’s employees and contractors would not survive the day. Nearly twenty-seven hundred others would, because a man with a bullhorn had willed them to.

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Rescorla was born Cyril Richard Rescorla on the Cornish coast in 1939. American soldiers trained in his hometown before the Normandy invasion. Rescorla watched them train and decided he would wear a uniform. He joined the British Army, served in Cyprus, then wore a Rhodesian police uniform. In 1963, he came to Brooklyn, lived in a hostel, and enlisted in the United States Army – still a British subject. He took the soldier’s oath and became a U.S. citizen a few years later.

Rick Rescorla went to Fort Dix, then Officer Candidate School, then Vietnam. In November 1965, at Ia Drang, he walked into the first major battle between the U.S. Army and the North Vietnamese. During that battle, his picture was taken.

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Rescorla’s face is dirt-streaked, his shoulders slumped from fatigue, the weight of exhaustion forming his expression. But that photo shows Rescorla just as he would be decades later in a building about to collapse in New York City – determined, moving forward, uphill, and into the fray.

May Rick Rescorla’s spirit never die, and may we all aspire to emulate his courage and patriotism."

Please read the whole article here

AMAC News Line

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We still mourn the loss of people, first responders, firemen, families, clean-up workers, with the continued loss of those with deadly illnesses. Remember the people, the silence, the skies...

Where are you from?

-MUTTS
 

Happy Anniversary!!! :o)

 -MUTTS

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Just saying...

 

Snoopy is so talented.

-Charles Schulz  

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Be Thou forever near me!

"O Jesus, I have promised

To serve Thee to the end;

Be Thou forever near me,

My Master and my Friend!

I shall not fear the battle,

If Thou art by my side;

Nor wander from the pathway,

If Thou wilt be my Guide.

O Jesus, 
Thou hast promised

To all who follow Thee,

That where Thou art in glory

There shall Thy servant be!

And, Jesus, I have promised

To serve Thee to the end,

Oh, give me grace to follow,

My Master and my Friend."

-John E. Bode--published in A Boy's War, by David Michell

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