Pinterest Since our founding by Clara Barton on May 21, 1881, the American Red Cross has been dedicated to serving people in need. We received our first congressional charter in 1900 and to this day we are tasked by the federal government with providing services to members of the American armed forces and their families as well as providing disaster relief in […]
Read More The Red Cross Part IIAn Alabama State Trooper swings his baton at the head of the then-25-year-old Congressman John Lewis on March 7, 1965. ( Everett Collection Historical, Alamy Stock Photo). Smithsonian magazine Unfortunately, when the “overcome” actually began to happen, the movement dissipated, and the oppressed embraced the many ungodly ways of the world. Blessed is every oppressed person […]
Read More Does Non-Violence Matter? Part IORIGIN OF OUR NAME Comedian Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) holds a very special place in the history of the March of Dimes, for it was he who coined the phrase “March of Dimes” used to identify the Foundation today. Eddie Cantor was a multi-talented performer – vaudeville star, singer, actor, comedian, radio and television personality – […]
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Read More You Humiliate Others, Because You Are a Social Profiler(AP) The Business of Drugs: inside the economics of America’s longest war A half-century into America’s ‘war on drugs’, a new Netflix series uses dollars, cents and economic incentives to ask: is prohibition worth it? The economics of the drug war Adrian Horton (2020) As a CIA analyst in Shanghai and Pakistan during America’s “war […]
Read More A CLOSER LOOK AT AMERICA’S FIGHT AGAINST RUTHLESS DRUG SMUGGLERSCreative Commons Bible in a Year: Psalms 63–65 Romans 6 We were . . . buried with him. Romans 6:4 Today’s Scripture & Insight: Romans 6:1–11 For twenty-nine years after World War II ended, Hiroo Onoda hid in the jungle, refusing to believe his country had surrendered. Japanese military leaders had dispatched Onoda to a […]
Read More (Our Daily Bread) The Battle’s Over— Really?wp:image {“className”:”size-large”} Wait on the Lord;Be of good courage,And He shall strengthen your heart;Wait, I say, on the Lord! Wait on the Lord;Be of good courage,And He shall … *Verse of the Day
Read More *Verse of the DayChernobyl Wildfires Reignite, Stirring Up Radiation By Maria Varenikova Wildfires are common in the so-called Zone of Alienation around the abandoned Chernobyl plant. A larger-than-typical fire is stirring up radiation, though levels remain normal in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. A field fire burning on Friday in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.Volodymyr Shuvayev/Agence France-Presse — Getty […]
Read More Chernobyl 1986 – The Accident Part IIA Red Cross nurse in a field hospital in France ensures her patient has clean bandages. World War II Supporting 16 Million Military Personnel The Red Cross mobilized in support of the U.S. military, our Allies and civilian victims of World War II. We enrolled more than 104,000 nurses for military service, prepared 27 million […]
Read More The Red Cross Part IIIThe controversial paragraph was removed before final publication of The Politician. The sensationalism of Welch’s charges against Eisenhower prompted several conservatives and Republicans, most prominently Goldwater and the intellectuals of William F. Buckley’s circle, to renounce outright or quietly shun the group. Buckley, an early friend and admirer of Welch, regarded his accusations against Eisenhower […]
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