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it.\u003C\/b\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default?alt=json-in-script\u0026orderby=published"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=26\u0026max-results=25\u0026orderby=published"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"475"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"25"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-372336859362195738"},"published":{"$t":"2020-10-01T00:00:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-10-01T00:00:06.135-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Vote November Third"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EListen therefore, O kings, and understand;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ci\u003Elearn, O judges of the ends of the earth.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EGive ear, you that rule over multitudes,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand boast of many nations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor your dominion was given you from the Lord,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand your sovereignty from the Most High,\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewho will search out your works\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand inquire into your plans.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBecause as servants of his kingdom you did not rule rightly,\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003Enor keep the law, nor walk according to the purpose of God,\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe will come upon you terribly and swiftly,\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebecause severe judgment falls on those in high places.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFor the lowliest man may be pardoned in mercy,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ebut mighty men will be mightily tested.\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the Lord of all will not stand in awe of any one,\u003Cbr \/\u003Enor show deference to greatness;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ebecause he himself made both small and great,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand he takes thought for all alike.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut a strict inquiry is in store for the mighty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo you then, O monarchs, my words are directed,\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethat you may learn wisdom and not transgress.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003EWisdom 6: 1-9.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E　\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is nice to think of our leaders as the “Kings and Judges”\u003Cbr \/\u003Eespecially when they are from a different political party\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand consider the wrath of God with unjust joy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBut\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;This is a democracy; and at least on Election Day\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ewe all are the “Kings and Judges,”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eas servants of His Kingdom will we\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003Erule rightly when we vote?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/372336859362195738\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=372336859362195738\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 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Nam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"WW1"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Veterans day 2019"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4dDVHA7AMVo\" width=\"720\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\nThe \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EFirst World War \u003C\/a\u003Enominally ended on November 11th. First celebrated as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armistice_Day\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EArmistice Day\u003C\/a\u003E, it became \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remembrance_day\" target=\"’blank”\"\u003ERemembrance Day\u003C\/a\u003E for the Commonwealth to honor those who had fallen. In the United States where \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EMemorial Day\u003C\/a\u003E already commemorated those who died defending our country it became \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veterans_Day\" target=\"’blank”\"\u003EVeteran’s Day\u003C\/a\u003E to also honor the veterans who came home.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\nLord Grey, the British Foreign Minister described the beginning of the war as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/lights-go-out-in-europe.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003E\"The lamps are going out in Europe\"\u003C\/a\u003E. The immediate costs in dead and treasure of this ultimately pointless war were horrific. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/horror-of-trenches.html\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003Ehorror of the trenches\u003C\/a\u003E scarred the psyche of the Western world. The resulting despair allowed political movements to come to influence and power, which have changed for the worse Western culture, the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/WSJ.ART.HTM\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003Eholocaust and gulag\u003C\/a\u003E being just the tip of the iceburg. Too many of the lamps are still out.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\nIt is a hard truth that this is an especially appropriate day to remember our veterans living and dead. One of the very few bright spots were the solders and sailors whose dedication, loyalty, and valor shamed the politicians and “statesman” who sent them to war. They should always be remembered.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\nBut also we need to remember that in other wars it was this same dedication and valor that bought our Freedom and Liberty, certainly against the forces released as a result of the First World War.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\nEnjoy the holiday, but remember to think of and pray for those who served.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\nIn 2007 \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.duffandnonsense.typepad.com\/\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EDavid Duff\u003C\/a\u003E objected to the war being called pointless. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dhchaos.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"”Blank”\"\u003EEl Jefe Maximo \u003C\/a\u003Eresponded. Their interesting and informative \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026amp;postID=9114394661738486468\u0026amp;isPopup=true\" target=\"”Blank”\"\u003Ediscussion\u003C\/a\u003E is a must read.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\nRelated posts:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/le-soldat-amricain-dans-afganistan.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003ELe Soldat Americain dans Afgaistan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/soldiers-are-people-too.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003ESoldiers are People, too\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/veterans-day-last-of-light-brigade.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003EThe Last of the Light Brigade.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/veterans-day.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003EThe Bivouac of the Dead\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/roynickerson.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/favorite-memorial-day-memory.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003ERoy Nickerson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dhchaos.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/11111918.html#comments\" target=\"“Blank”\"\u003E11\/11\/1918 (From Kingdom of Chaos)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/order-order.com\/2010\/11\/14\/remembrance-day-where-they-fell\/#comments\" target=\"'Blank\"\u003ERembrance Day - where They Fell\u003C\/a\u003E HT:\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\" target=\"Blank\"\u003EDavid Duff\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.annaraccoon.com\/politics\/requiem-for-tommy\/\" target=\"blank\"\u003ERequiem for Tommy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;HT: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.annaraccoon.com\/politics\/\" target=\"blank\"\u003EAnna Racoon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k8mjRxkMBkE\" width=\"539\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*******************************************************************************\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLittle known details about the visit of the three wise men seeking the birth of Jesus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBeing wise men they knew this was too important of an event not bring their wives, so they gladly hired the extra camels and tents so their wives and families could come.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBeing wise men they went on the Star Web and got Astrology Positioning System \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.astrologypositioningsystem.com\/\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E(APS) coordinates and instructions to “follow the star.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBeing wise men, they always stopped and got directions when their wives suggested. Also being wise men they realized the directions were mostly useless; checked the APS coordinates and “followed the star.”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThey and their wives were truly overjoyed at visiting their Savior and His family. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe whole trip was a great success except for stopping to ask directions in Jerusalem. That was a bummer. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe moral: wise men and women still seek Him.\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/354778750582182279\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=354778750582182279\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/354778750582182279"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/354778750582182279"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/epiphany.html","title":"Epiphany"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/k8mjRxkMBkE\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-3640037215776754075"},"published":{"$t":"2018-12-31T23:59:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-12-31T23:59:16.356-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FAITH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mary"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Feast of Mary Mother of God"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IGqf5ha_GEA\" width=\"1152\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ifCWN5pJGIE\" width=\"1152\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3640037215776754075\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=3640037215776754075\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/3640037215776754075"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/3640037215776754075"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/feast-of-mary-mother-of-god.html","title":"Feast of Mary Mother of God"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/IGqf5ha_GEA\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-8895686924375251223"},"published":{"$t":"2018-12-31T19:32:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-12-31T19:32:04.328-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FAITH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Medieval Baebes"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Happy New Years"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; 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autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oTbaAnHEGLk?ecver=1\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8NGQ-IC5BxI?list=RD8NGQ-IC5BxI\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8981451242949991853\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=8981451242949991853\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/8981451242949991853"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/8981451242949991853"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/blog-post.html","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/oTbaAnHEGLk\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-4979141990743949882"},"published":{"$t":"2018-12-23T23:59:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-12-23T23:59:03.356-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Advent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FAITH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Saints"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Christmas Eve -- AWAKE Mankind!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.universalis.com\/20051224\/readings.htm\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 85%;\"\u003EFrom a sermon of St Augustine\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 85%;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 180%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAwake, mankind!\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 130%;\"\u003EFor your sake God has become man\u003C\/span\u003E. \u003Ci\u003EAwake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. \u003C\/i\u003EI tell you again: for your sake, God became man.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou would have suffered eternal death, had he not been born in time. Never would you have been freed from sinful flesh, had he not taken on himself the likeness of sinful flesh. You would have suffered everlasting unhappiness, had it not been for this mercy. You would never have returned to life, had he not shared your death. You would have been lost if he had not hastened ‘to your aid. You would have perished, had he not come.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLet us then joyfully celebrate the coming of our salvation and redemption. Let us celebrate the festive day on which he who is the great and eternal day came from the great and endless day of eternity into our own short day of time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHe \u003Ci\u003Ehas become our justice, our sanctification, our redemption, so that, as it is written: Let him who glories glory in the Lord.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETruth, then, has arisen from the earth: \u003C\/i\u003EChrist who said, \u003Ci\u003EI am the Truth, \u003C\/i\u003Ewas born of the Virgin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EAnd justice looked down from heaven: \u003C\/i\u003Ebecause believing in this new-born child, man is justified not by himself but by God.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003ETruth has arisen from the earth: because the Word was made flesh. And justice looked down from heaven:\u003C\/i\u003E because \u003Ci\u003Eevery good gift and every perfect gift is from above.\u003Cbr \/\u003ETruth has arisen from the earth: \u003C\/i\u003Eflesh from Mary. \u003Ci\u003EAnd justice looked down from heaven: for man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJustified by faith, let us be at peace with God: for justice and peace have embraced one another. Through our Lord Jesus Christ: for Truth has arisen from the earth. Through whom we have access to that grace in which we stand, and our boast is in our hope of God’s glory. \u003C\/i\u003EHe does not say: “of our glory”, but \u003Ci\u003Eof God’s glory: for justice \u003C\/i\u003Ehas not come out of us but \u003Ci\u003Ehas looked down from heaven. \u003C\/i\u003ETherefore \u003Ci\u003Ehe who glories, let him glory,\u003C\/i\u003E not in himself, but \u003Ci\u003Ein the Lord. \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor this reason, when our Lord was born of the Virgin, the message of the angelic voices was:\u003Ci\u003E Glory to God in the highest, and peace to men of good will. \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor how could there be peace on earth unless \u003Ci\u003ETruth has arisen from the earth,\u003C\/i\u003E that is, unless Christ were born of our flesh? And \u003Ci\u003Ehe is our peace who made the two into one:\u003C\/i\u003E that we might be men of good will, sweetly linked by the bond of unity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLet us then rejoice in this grace, so that our glorying may bear witness to our good conscience by which we glory, not in ourselves, but in the Lord. That is why Scripture says: \u003Ci\u003EHe is my glory, the one who lifts up my head. \u003C\/i\u003EFor what greater grace could God have made to dawn on us than to make his only Son become the son of man, so that a son of man might in his turn become son of God?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAsk if this were merited; ask for its reason, for its justification, and see whether you will find any other answer but sheer grace."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4979141990743949882\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=4979141990743949882\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/4979141990743949882"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/4979141990743949882"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/christmas-eve-awake-mankind.html","title":"Christmas Eve -- AWAKE Mankind!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-6451987029161675130"},"published":{"$t":"2018-12-22T23:59:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-12-22T23:59:08.357-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Advent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FAITH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Midiaeval Baebes"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Fourth Sundayu of Advent"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ECelibate Christ's Mass at Mass\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nand keep Christ in Christmas.\n\nFind a nearby Mass \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/masstimes.org\/\"\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0wK60zxmctI\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vQaNDIszlNY\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6451987029161675130\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=6451987029161675130\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/6451987029161675130"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/6451987029161675130"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/fourth-sundayu-of-advent.html","title":"Fourth Sundayu of Advent"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/0wK60zxmctI\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-144799018254995040"},"published":{"$t":"2018-12-15T21:35:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-12-15T21:53:02.692-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Advent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FAITH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Gothard Sisters"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Peanuts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Third Sunday of Advent"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RoH6RUxJOMY\" width=\"665\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sOofCTbv96s\" width=\"665\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/144799018254995040\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=144799018254995040\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/144799018254995040"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/144799018254995040"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/second-sunday-of-advent.html","title":"Third Sunday of Advent"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/RoH6RUxJOMY\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-1071316515549588578"},"published":{"$t":"2018-12-08T22:01:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-12-15T21:54:22.133-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Advent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FAITH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Midiaeval Baebes"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Second Sunday of Advent"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qrct9jiWPVE?ecver=1\" width=\"745\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8HnIqgmFSkM\" width=\"745\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOne of my favorite Christmas Carols is \u003Ci\u003EO Come O Come Emmanuel\u003C\/i\u003E. The verses, based on scripture describe the hope for which Israel waited the coming of the Messiah and which we share in the celebration of Advent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe monks of the Early Church, and still today, sing at Vespers the song of Mary in Luke’s Gospel \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/feastofsaints.com\/magnificat.htm\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EMy soul magnifies the Lord.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E The antiphon that would be sung with it varies with the season and day. The antiphons for 17th to the 23d of December date from at least the 9th Century and were at some point collected in to a single hymn, Thomas Aquinas is reputed to have provided a Gregorian chant setting for them. In the 19th Century they were set to a French folk tune and given the Chorus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Antiphons\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDecember 17\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO WISDOM, who came from the mouth of the Most High, reaching from end to end and ordering all things mightily and sweetly: COME, and teach us the way of prudence. Amen. \"O Sapientia...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO Wisdom: Proverbs 1:20; 8; 9 and I Corinthians 1:30\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDecember 18\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO LORD AND RULER of the House of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the flame of the burning bush and gave him the law on Sinai: COME, and redeem us with outstretched arms. Amen. \"O Adonai...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO Lord and Ruler of the House of Israel: Exodus 3; Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:6\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDecember 19\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO ROOT OF JESSE, that stands for an ensign of the people, before whom the kings keep silence and unto whom the Gentiles shall make supplication: COME, to deliver us, and tarry not. Amen. \"O Radix Jesse...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO Root of Jesse: Isaiah 11:10; Romans 15:12; Revelation 5:5\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDecember 20\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO KEY OF DAVID, and Sceptre of the House of Israel, who opens and no man shuts, who shuts and no man opens: COME, and bring forth the captive from his prison, he who sits in darkness and in the shadow of death. Amen. \"O Clavis David...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO Key of David: Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDecember 21\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO DAWN OF THE EAST, brightness of light eternal, and Sun of Justice: COME, and enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. Amen. \"O Oriens...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO Dawn of the East (Dayspring): Luke 1:78, 79; Malachi 4:2\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDecember 22\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO KING OF THE GENTILES and their desired One, the Cornerstone that makes both one: COME, and deliver man, whom you formed out of the dust of the earth. Amen. \"O Rex...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO King of the Gentiles (Nations): Revelation 15:3; Psalm 118:22; Isaiah 28:16; Matthew 21:42; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11; Ephesians 2:20; I Peter 2:6\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDecember 23\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO EMMANUEL, God with us, Our King and Lawgiver, the expected of the nations and their Saviour: COME to save us, O Lord our God. Amen. \"O Emmanuel...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nO Emmanuel: Isaiah 7:\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0;\"\u003E14\u003C\/span\u003E; 8:8; Matthew 1:23; Haggai 2:7 (KJV)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 130%;\"\u003ETurn up your speakers and\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 180%;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EEnjoy\u003C\/b\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 180%;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1071316515549588578\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=1071316515549588578\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/1071316515549588578"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/1071316515549588578"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/one-of-my-favorite-christmas-carols-is.html","title":"Second Sunday of Advent"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Qrct9jiWPVE\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-4691839292772230286"},"published":{"$t":"2018-12-02T00:00:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-12-05T08:10:41.950-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Abortion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Advent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FAITH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jesus Christ"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Advent --  He is Coming!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/s4.photobucket.com\/albums\/y103\/Hank_F_M\/?action=view\u0026amp;current=getimagewm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" width=\"120%\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Jesus adent ultrasound christmas\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.photobucket.com\/albums\/y103\/Hank_F_M\/getimagewm.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\"We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but a second as well, much more glorious than the first. The first coming was marked by patience; the second will bring the crown of a divine kingdom. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn general, whatever relates to our Lord Jesus Christ has two aspects. There is a birth from God before the ages, and a birth from a virgin at the fullness of time. There is a hidden coming, like that of rain on fleece, and a coming before all eyes, still in the future. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAt the first coming he was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At his second coming he will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming he endured the cross, despising the shame; in the second coming he will be in glory, escorted by an army of angels. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe look then beyond the first coming and await the second. At the first coming we said: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBlessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E At the second we shall say it again; we shall go out with the angels to meet the Lord and cry out in adoration: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBlessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Saviour will not come to be judged again, but to judge those by whom he was judged. At his own judgement he was silent; then he will address those who committed the outrages against him when they crucified him and will remind them: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EYou did these things, and I was silent.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHis first coming was to fulfil his plan of love, to teach men by gentle persuasion. This time, whether men like it or not, they will be subjects of his kingdom by necessity. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe prophet Malachi speaks of the two comings. \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAnd the Lord whom you seek will come suddenly to his temple:\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E that is one coming. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAgain he says of another coming: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELook, the Lord almighty will come, and who will endure the day of his entry, or who will stand in his sight? Because he comes like a refiner’s fire, a fuller’s herb, and he will sit refining and cleansing.\u003C\/i\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese two comings are also referred to by Paul in writing to Titus: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe grace of God the Saviour has appeared to all men, instructing us to put aside impiety and worldly desires and live temperately, uprightly, and religiously in this present age, waiting for the joyful hope, the appearance of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.\u003C\/i\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E Notice how he speaks of a first coming for which he gives thanks, and a second, the one we still await. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThat is why the faith we profess has been handed on to you in these words: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EHe ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.\u003C\/i\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOur Lord Jesus Christ will therefore come from heaven. He will come at the end of the world, in glory, at the last day. For there will be an end to this world, and the created world will be made new.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ECatechism,\u003C\/i\u003E  St Cyril of Jerusalem, cira 350 A.D. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003EOffice of readings, First Sunday of Advent Second Reading\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4691839292772230286\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=4691839292772230286\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/4691839292772230286"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/4691839292772230286"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/advent-he-is-coming.html","title":"Advent --  He is Coming!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-4148096972076894861"},"published":{"$t":"2018-10-23T19:42:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-10-23T19:42:00.798-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Vote November 6th"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EListen therefore, O kings, and understand; \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E learn, O judges of the ends of the earth. \u003Cbr \/\u003E Give ear, you that rule over multitudes,\u003Cbr \/\u003E and boast of many nations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E For your dominion was given you from the Lord,\u003Cbr \/\u003E and your sovereignty from the Most High,\u003Cbr \/\u003E who will search out your works\u003Cbr \/\u003E and inquire into your plans.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003EBecause as servants of his kingdom you did not rule rightly,\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003Enor keep the law, nor walk according to the purpose of God,\u003Cbr \/\u003E He will come upon you terribly and swiftly,\u003Cbr \/\u003E because severe judgment falls on those in high places.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003E For the lowliest man may be pardoned in mercy,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ebut mighty men will be mightily tested.\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E For the Lord of all will not stand in awe of any one,\u003Cbr \/\u003E nor show deference to greatness;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003Ebecause he himself made both small and great,\u003Cbr \/\u003E and he takes thought for all alike. \u003Cbr \/\u003E But a strict inquiry is in store for the mighty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E To you then, O monarchs, my words are directed,\u003Cbr \/\u003E that you may learn wisdom and not transgress.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003EWisdom 6: 1-9.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n　\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt is nice to think of our leaders as the “Kings and Judges”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nespecially when they are from a different political party\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nand consider the wrath of God with unjust joy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EBut\u003C\/strong\u003E This is a democracy; and at least on Election Day\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003Ewe all are the “Kings and Judges,”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nas servants of His Kingdom will we\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003Erule rightly when we vote?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Csub\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003Csup\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cstrike\u003E\u003C\/strike\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4148096972076894861\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=4148096972076894861\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/4148096972076894861"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/4148096972076894861"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/vote-november-6th_23.html","title":"Vote November 6th"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-1822821306304612968"},"published":{"$t":"2018-01-28T09:45:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-28T06:17:33.470-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"TET 1968 - 50 Years later – A personal Narrative "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe Tet Offensive occurred\n50 years ago.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe Year of the Monkey\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ENineteen Sixty-Eight was a strange\nyear. First there was Tet or Vietnamese New Years, the occasion for the North\nVietnamese offensive. Then I was in the hospital for a week, which was the week\nof the Martin Luther King riots. I spent the week lying on my back watching the\ncountry burn down on TV. Then there was the Democratic Convention. Some said\nthey would disrupt the convention. The Mayor said he was going to protect the\nright of people to peacefully hold a political convention. It was clear that if\nyou liked to bash in heads for fun or else have your head bashed that was the\nplace to be. I did not care for either so I stayed home. Generally, it seemed\nlike rioting was the recreation of choice that year around the world, the\ntactics and method of the “sixty- eighters,” if not their stated goals, seemed\nawfully brown shirtish. There seemed to be general mood that year that things\nwere bad and getting worse. The year wasn’t all bad; I escaped (graduated) from\nhigh school and went to college.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe War at Home\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThis was the height of the Viet Nam\nwar. Going to school in the morning, right in front of our school bus was the\nNavy ambulance bus taking casualties from the Air Station to the Naval Hospital.\nI remember sitting on my parent’s sofa watching the news. Not news of \u003Ci\u003Eimprovised\u003C\/i\u003E\nexplosive devices (IEDs) and suicide idiots that everyone takes so seriously\nthese days; but regular armies with trained soldiers and manufactured explosive\ndevices, maneuvering divisions and engaging in major battles. Two hundred to\nthree hundred US dead a week, week in week out. North Viet Nam was being\nbombed, but apparently under so many restrictions it was almost useless. There\nwere negotiations about the shape of the peace table if there were ever real\npeace negotiations. It seemed a Dien Bien Phu II was shaping up at Khe Shan. A\ntruce had been announced by both sides for the Tet holiday, the question being\nwhen and where the North Vietnamese would violate it. They violated it\neverywhere. Saigon, Hue, Dak To, Da Nang, Pleiku all with enemy forces in the\ncity. The US Embassy in Saigon occupied. The walled citadel of Hue, the old\nVietnamese Imperial capital, was lost. News coming so fast you couldn’t absorb\nit. That week, over seven hundred dead. Like Nine Eleven, everyone was sitting\nglued to the TV watching the bad news. Unlike Nine Eleven no stories of\ndramatic escapes and heroic rescues.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EOn the third day the New York news\nteams got to Viet Nam to report what happened. I remember watching Walter\nCronkite in dirty wrinkled fatigues and a dented helmet reporting how serious\nthings were, if we actually survived this battle you knew the war was lost.\u0026nbsp; He repeated this in a TV Special report a few weeks later. Statements by military press officers were ridiculed.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThis was a shock wave. The net\neffect of months of watching heavy fighting on television, the staggering scope\nof the enemy attack, along with a narrative that said we were defeated even if\nwe survived this battle changed the mood of the country. The next few years are\nonly understandable when you realize we were in a state of national \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; margin: 0px;\"\u003E“ongoing traumatic stress syndrome.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EUS and South Vietnamese forces\ndefended and attacked to no pattern we saw in the media. The Embassy was\nrecaptured. The Battle of Hue dragged on forever. It was agreed to end the\nnegotiations about negations and have negotiations on the same subjects as the\nnegotiations about negotiations. The war seemed to continue as before. Johnson\nstopped the bombing of North Vietnam not for any gain but because he thought it\nwould help win the 1968 election. Even so Nixon won the 1968 election.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ENixon invaded Cambodia. This\nresulted in riots in the US that culminated in the Kent State incident. Next\nNixon invaded Laos. In 1972 North Vietnamese tanks crossed the border. To read\nthe newspaper headlines or watch the TV news it seemed things were getting\nworse. A keystone of Nixon’s policy was the Vietnamization program of upgrading\nthe South Vietnamese Army and tuning things over to the South Vietnamese. The\nmedia reported every problem and generally trashed the program. A company went\nberserk at My Lai and massacred about a hundred people, apparently covered up\nby the Army. The Special Forces tried to but failed to liberate some POW’s in\nNorth Viet Nam. In 1972 the bombing of North Viet Nam was resumed, including\nthis time the ports and Red River Delta. The press and others were frantic;\nthis was an escalation that would bring China into the war.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EBut then, almost from no place, the\n1972 peace agreement was signed. The US and the North Vietnamese agreed to a\ncease fire and to mutually withdrawal from South Viet Nam. The US was allowed\nto keep a very finite number of advisors and promised to come to the aid of\nSouth Viet Nam if North Vietnam went back on the agreement. In the press it\nseemed like a face saving surrender. There was some doubt that the US would\nkeep its promise. (At this point I remember in our first week of Officers Basic\nthey told us that even if we volunteered we could not go to Vietnam, the mock\ngroan of disappointment was overwhelming.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ENixon cut corners to be sure he won\nreelection in 1972 against one of the most unelectable Democratic candidates\never. His burglars were caught at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate\nApartments; the step by step investigations eventually forced him to resign in\n1974. But he was politically paralyzed long before that, and his successor was,\nby default, a seat warmer until the 1976 elections.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EIn 1975 South Vietnam fell.\nCongress made it clear we would not keep the promise to come to South Viet\nNam’s aid. The first wave of boat people came to the US. The second wave was\nabandoned at sea. South Vietnam was put under a totalitarian regime that\nrivaled anything of Hitler, Mao or Stalin. The same for Laos. But this was child\nplay compared to what the Khmer Rouge (Communist Party) did in the killing\nfields of Cambodia.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EBandaging The Wounds\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EI think three things aided national\nreconciliation,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E- The Independence Bi-Centennial\ncelebration in 1976. This turned everyone’s attention to something all could\nagree on or at least use the same words if we didn’t agree.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E- Richard Nixon and Watergate. He\nbecame the scapegoat for everything from 1954 to 1975. He was guilty of enough\nthat no one cared if he was being accused of things he didn’t or couldn’t have\ndone. “It’s all Nixon’s fault”, even if it wasn’t, was a statement that allowed\npeople to avoid accusing friends neighbors and relatives of supporting the\n“wrong” side, whichever side that was.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E- And a number of myths about the\nwar grew and were accepted. Often not factual, but allowing people to live\ntogether, except when one myth challenged another, or worse, was challenged by\nfacts.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EAnd we went from “ongoing” to “posttraumatic\nstress syndrome.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe Real War\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ESome of this was apparent at the\ntime, to a political and military geek such as myself, much I learned later.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EIn 1959 the North Vietnamese\nGovernment \u003Ci\u003Eordered\u003C\/i\u003E the Viet Cong to begin military action to take over\nSouth Viet Nam. They used the classic guerilla war pattern of Mao Zedong. They\nwere greatly helped because they had much more resources than normal to start\nup a guerilla campaign. Much of the prepatory work had been done by the old\nViet Minh while fighting the French, there was logistic support from North\nVietnamese base areas in Laos and Cambodia, the South Vietnamese government had\nmajor problems, really the problems of any third world government, but easy to\nexploit. By 1965 this campaign had progressed to Mao’s third or mobile phase.\nThe South Vietnamese were in a bind. They had no uncommitted reserves. (I think\nI remember reading at the time that South Viet Nam had one or two battalions\navailable everything else was committed). And the North Vietnamese were massing\na mobile force of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese \u003Ci\u003Edivisions\u003C\/i\u003E to finish off\ntheir victory. If the South Vietnamese army consolidated forces to defeat the\nmobile units they would abandon a fatal amount of territory, but leaving their\nforces disbursed meant their units would be destroyed one at a time by the enemy\nmobile forces.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe solution was the introduction\nof US combat units to fight the North Vietnamese mobile forces, and have the\nSouth Vietnamese deal with the guerillas. (This was the general plan though\nthere were exceptions, such as the Army Special Forces and the Marine CAP\nplatoons, and token South Vietnamese forces always accompanied large US\noperations.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe introduction of US troops put\nthe North Vietnamese generals in a bind. They could not defeat the US Army and\nMarines in the field. Not that they didn’t try. Through 1965, 1966 and into\n1967 they launched a number of operations trying to defeat the US forces. They\nquickly learned that human wave attacks against fire bases using howitzers as\nshotguns was suicidal. Sometimes they would win against a small unit but they\ncould never win against a force large enough to advance Mao’s mobile war\nstrategy. All they ended up with was massive amounts of casualties; even the\nsmall battles they won were often Pyric victories. They needed to change their strategy.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ETheir problem was Mao’s theory said\nthey had to capture the county side first before moving into the cities.\nPrematurely moving into the cities would cut them off from their bases and\ninvite destruction. But they were unable to defeat US forces to take over the\ncountryside. There were two proposals considered, to back off the lower level\nphases of guerrilla war to wear down the US so it would grow tired and\nwithdraw, or launching a major offensive to dislodge the US forces. They\ndecided to take a long shot gamble on the later.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EIt was always possible to\ninfiltrate the cities but anything larger than a patrol that could melt into\nthe population could not survive the counter attack. They decided if they\ninfiltrated enough forces into the cities, launched a surprise attack and\ncaptured enough critical points they could survive the counter attack and it\nwould be the US forces that were cut off. They expected that there would be a\nlarge response to a call for a popular uprising. Success required they obtain\nfirm control over their critical targets in the first twenty-four hours or so\nisolating the US forces from their bases.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThey obtained initial surprise. We\nknew what their doctrine was, we believed it was a good doctrine, but we did not\nrealize they were so desperate that they would throw it out on a gamble.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThey got into the cities, captured\nlarge amounts of space. They got control of civilian areas that had no defense\nforce beyond local police. A call for a general uprising was made. The Viet\nCong political officers came out and started to organize a new government and\nhad “counter revolutionaries” rounded up and executed.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EMany South Vietnamese and US units\nwere isolated, a few were destroyed. Support units of all types became infantry\nto survive. But most held until relived or even counter attacked.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThere was no popular uprising. The\nNorth Vietnamese captured no critical military bases. The combat units in the\nfield turned around and came back to the cities, made sure the bases were\nsecure and cleared the cities. That sounds so easy, it wasn’t. By the third day\nit was clear the offensive had failed. The North Vietnamese were still in\ncontrol of most of what they had captured, but couldn’t take more and were\nbeing attacked. There were still several months of fierce fighting to clear the\ncities and restore the pre-offensive status and several more months to exploit\nthe situation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EIn many areas the defeat of the\noffensive resulted in the destruction of the local Viet Cong infrastructure.\nMany Viet Cong units joined the offensive and were lost or seriously damaged.\nAfter a few months when units with the name and number of a Viet Cong unit\nrejoined the fight it was almost exclusively staffed with North Vietnamese.\nWhen the local Viet Cong political cadres outed themselves to set up a new\ngovernment their identities became common knowledge. Killing the counter\nrevolutionaries left a lot of people who wanted revenge for dead relatives and\nfriends. They were known and easy target for Operation Phoenix. In many places\nvigilantes acting on their own killed them. The Viet Cong’s local political\norganization never recovered though it took a long time exploit this.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe Vietnamization program, which\nreally should have started earlier, meant pulling units off line giving them a\nrest, new equipment, time to train and develop confidence. When it went back on\nline it was a much better trained, equipped and confident force. They were able\nto slowly gain control over larger areas of the countryside on their own. By\n1972 guerilla activity had ceased to be a major problem in much of South Viet\nNam. (I read a news report that in parts of the Mekong delta the per capita\nrate of “guerilla attacks” was about the same as the pre-WWII per capita rate\nof criminal activity.) Aggressive large operations such as the border crossings\ngradually reduced the North Vietnamese Armies ability to conduct large scale\noperations in South Viet Nam. When the North Vietnamese crossed the DMZ in a\ntank assault in 1972 it was the South Vietnamese Army that stopped them.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EUS units were being withdrawn.\nBecause of the individual replacement policy there were very few unit\nhomecomings to make this visible in the US. A unit was deactivated in place\nit’s people redistributed and that many replacements were not sent. By 1972\nmost US combat troops were gone.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EEnding the War\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ESo long as North Viet Nam could\nthey would continue to send its armed forces to south to capture South Viet\nNam. Attacking North Viet Nam involved risks of escalating the war by bringing\nin China or Russia to help North Viet Nam. This was a real risk though it\nprobably played larger in Washington’s mind than was the real case. How to\nconvince them? Negotiations by themselves would not do it. The North Vietnamese first and last\u0026nbsp; negotiating position was that they would get complete control of all\nViet Nam. Invasion and regime change of North Viet Nam (to use the current\nterm) was politically impossible in the US political situation. Bombing risked\nintervention and excessive political fallout if not successful in a short\nperiod of time.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ENixon’s National Security Advisor\n(and later Secretary of State) Henry Kissinger had a plan.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe first part was for the vigorous\nprosecution of the war in South Viet, as well as destroying bases in\nsanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe second was Vietnamization\nprogram to turn the war back to South Viet Nam. This would allow the US to\nleave at some point.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe third was to give both China\nand Russia a reason not to intervene if bombing in the North was resumed.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EFourth was to launch a bombing\ncampaign that would make North Viet Nam agree to stop the war in the South.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EWhile it wasn’t obvious in the news\nRussia and China did not get along. In 1969 they even had a large border fight\nin Manchuria. China refused to let Russia transship to North Viet Nam across\nChinese territory. Most of the equipment that North Viet Nam needed to support\nthe war came from Russia and was unloaded at the port of Haiphong. China was\nonly able to provide basic infantry weapons and a large manpower pool if they\nintervened, which North Viet Nam probably did not want because they could not\nbe sure it go away after the war. This was an opportunity. If a strategic\nbombing program could close Haiphong Harbor and hit other high value targets,\nNorth Viet Nam would not get the weapons and supplies it needed to prosecute\nthe war, or maintain a basic economy, and possibly stay in power.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EKissinger opened a diplomatic\ncampaign to make both Russia and China feel they had more to lose by intervening\nto support North Viet Nam than if they just left it to it’s own devices. To the\nRussians he opened a softening of \u003Ci\u003Edétente\u003C\/i\u003E including signing the ABM and\nSALT weapons reduction treaties. To China he offered diplomatic recognition and\nopening of trade relations. President Nixon’s famous visit to China in 1972,\nwas part of this campaign.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe strategic bombing campaign was\nstarted. It closed Haiphong Harbor. Bridges on major highways were destroyed.\nNorth Viet Nam had to agree to withdraw in order for their government to\nsurvive. But it did not change their goal of taking over the South.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EAn agreement was signed. POW’s came\nhome. Both sides withdrew. South Viet Nam started to recover from the war.\nNorth Viet Nam rebuilt it’s Army. In 1975 they attacked with fourteen divisions\nfrom Cambia, Laos, and North Viet Nam. South Viet Nam asked the US for air\nsupport, the request was denied despite our promise in the peace agreement.\nThis caused the South Vietnamese Government to panic, and the war was lost. The\ngeneral opinion is that South Viet Nam could have held with air support and\nquite possibly without it if they had not panicked.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ECollateral Damage \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background: rgb(244, 244, 244); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Csub\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #f4f4f4; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EToday, 1:29 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background: rgb(244, 244, 244); line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: middle;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Csub\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 1pt; color: white; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0in;\"\u003EYou\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Csub\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 1pt; color: #f4f4f4; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 1pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0in;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background: rgb(244, 244, 244); margin: 0px 0px 6px; vertical-align: bottom;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EAt the\nbeginning of the war, the President of Viet Nam was Ngo Ding Diem.\u0026nbsp; He had\nworked long and hard for independence and do develop the country and fight the\nViet Cong. Perhaps not the favorite of many South Vietnamese factions he was\nthe properly elected leader of the country and acceptable to most\nfactions.\u0026nbsp; Unfortunately, he did not meet the expectations of many in the\nKennedy administration and it’s supporters. A group of generals overthrew and\nkilled him in a coup in 1963.\u0026nbsp; Kennedy knew about the Coup and gave at\nleast passive support.\u0026nbsp; This coup and several that followed greatly\ndamaged the credibility of the South Vietnamese government.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ENegotiations had started early in\nthe war. They preliminary negotiations stalled. The North Vietnamese insisted\nthat they and the Viet Cong be separate parties and negotiate with US only.\nAccepting this would deny that the US was helping a sovereign government\nagainst foreign attack. The US and South Viet Nam insisted that the US and\nSouth Viet Nam be separate parities and negotiate with North Viet Nam only.\nAccepting this would deny that the Viet Cong was an indigenous uprising. Every\nso often one side would make a proposal that the other found unacceptable,\nwhich had an annexed diagram for a negotiating table, about the least important\npart of the proposal. The press, especially television, only reported on the shape\nof the table. (After the war North Viet Nam’s military published in their\nprofessional journals a number of “how we won articles” that make it clear that\nthe Viet Cong was always an instrument of North Vietnamese policy and never an\nindigenous movement or independent organization.) After the Tet offensive\nPresident Johnson to proposed a plan that sidestepped the issue by ignoring it,\nthus doing nothing to advance the negotiations or produce peace; and got the\nNorth Vietnamese to agree to the proposal by stopping the bombing. Both of\nwhich Johnson also believed would help a in the 1968 elections.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe Cold War standoff with the\nSoviet Union resulted in a \u003Ci\u003Ede facto\u003C\/i\u003E policy of what was called Mutually\nAssured Destruction (MAD) though it always seemed to me that something like\nMassively Asinine Dumbness would be a better name. A central concern was to\nprevent an escalation of violence to the point where nuclear weapons were used.\nThis concern had a major impact on US military policy during the war. On one\nhand President Johnson considered a withdrawal or defeat as politically\nunacceptable. On the other hand, the question he asked was how to prevent\nescalation, not how to end the thing. As a result, the Johnson kept the war in\n“maintenance mode” with no purpose or end in sight. Maybe earlier in the war\nthere was no way to end it without unacceptable escalation, maybe not, but the\n“no escalation” groupthink prevented serious consideration of how to end the\nwar.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe press’s “investigative\nreporting” of the My Lai massacre broke the story two weeks after an Article 32\nboard returned an indictment. Article 32 Boards are public hearings, following a major investigation that took over at a year. It\ndeveloped that there had been a few small incidents like this, the Army and\nMarines investigating and prosecuting whenever there was evidence to convict.\nThe press usually knew about these but did not report them until after the My\nLai incident and the Army made formal charges.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EUnlike most of today’s news\npersons, the main news teams in New York had been covering wars since WWII and\nwere usually pretty good military analysts in their own right. In addition to\nhis confidence building style Walter Cronkite of CBS news was one of the best.\nIt is hard to imagine when he made that report from a five star hotel in\nSaigon, with borrowed fatigues and helmet that he did not understand the actual\nsituation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe war needed large amounts of\nmen.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;\u0026amp;quot\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThe draft was unpopular.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;\u0026amp;quot\u0026quot; , serif; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; margin: 0px;\"\u003E Calling up National Guard and reserves for the 1962 Berlin crisis caused so much political costs that the administration did not want to repeat.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ESecretary\nof Defense Robert MacNamara announced, purportedly as an effort to help the poor\nand disadvantaged, that 100,000 men would be drafted who did not meet the\nnormal minimum standards for military service.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;\u0026amp;quot\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EIn addition to taking casualties at much higher rate, these men received no\nbenefit for their post service life.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;\u0026amp;quot\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EBut the middle class served as a much lower rate or in safer positions,\nwhich many believe was the real purpose of the program.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThousands of Vietnamese “boat people”\ncame the US at the fall of South Viet Nam. (Many got on boats and sailed to US\nships thus the term.) Later, in response to the communists “reeducation”\npolices there was a mass emigration from Viet Nam by boat, it was clear if the\nPresident ordered the navy to pick them up he would have major confrontation in\nCongress he could not win, so the Navy was ordered not pick them up, even if\nthe boat was not seaworthy and sinking.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003ESummation\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EAt the 1974 conference on missing in action servicemen, a (North) Vietnamese Colonel was asked about the North\nVietnamese Army never wining a significant battle against the US military. He\nresponded\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E“So What!”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E[I have since found out the actual quote\nwas:\u003Cspan style=\"margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\"That\nmay be so, but it is also irrelevant.\"]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003ERelated\nposts\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/maothought-or-who-is-winning.html\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/maothought-or-who-is-winning.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; margin: 0px;\"\u003EMaoThought or Who is Winning?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003EA summery of Mau Zeitung’s guerilla war doctrine, essential\nto understand the war.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/just-asking.html\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/just-asking.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; margin: 0px;\"\u003EJust Asking?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Csub\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003Csup\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cstrike\u003E\u003C\/strike\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/dien-bien-phu-hell-in-very-small-place.html\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/dien-bien-phu-hell-in-very-small-place.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red; margin: 0px;\"\u003EBook Review: Dien Bien Phu: Hell in a Very Small Place\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/CIA\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/we-must-have-won-vietnam-war.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; margin: 0px;\"\u003EWe Must Have Won The Vietnam War\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Csub\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003Csup\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cstrike\u003E\u003C\/strike\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Csub\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003Csup\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cstrike\u003E\u003C\/strike\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003E+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;\"\u003EThis is an edited and slightly\nexpanded copy of the post I made on the 40\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E anniversary of the\nOffensive.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EHanks Eclectic Meanderings\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/maothought-or-who-is-winning.html\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EMaothought or Who is Winning\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\nMy summery of Mao’s three phase guerilla war theory.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWikipedia\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EViet Nam War\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tet_Offensive\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETet offensive\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ESouth Vietnamese\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vietquoc.com\/\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EViet Quoc\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vietquoc.com\/0002vq.htm\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe TET ’68 Offensive\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vietquoc.com\/tet68rev.htm\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMORE ABOUT THE 1968 TET OFFENSIVE\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vietquoc.com\/war-frame.htm\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETHE HANOI'S 300,000 MIA'S\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vietquoc.com\/war-frame.htm\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EWhy We Lost South Vietnam? \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ECommonwealth\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; 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background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/january\/31\/newsid_2648000\/2648951.stm\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBBC report 31 January 1968\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ENorth Vietnamese\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/cold.war\/episodes\/11\/interviews\/giap\/\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003ECNN: Interview with General Giap\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.edu\/~ebolt\/history398\/TranVanTrasCommentsOnTet68_2.html\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003ETran Van Tra's comments on Tet '68\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.viet-myths.net\/BuiTin.htm\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EHow North Vietnam Won The War\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EUS Army Center for Military History Published material – Viet Nam\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.history.army.mil\/reference\/vncmp.htm\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENamed Campaigns Viet Nam\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.history.army.mil\/books\/AMH-V2\/AMH%20V2\/index.htm\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EAMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY VOLUME II THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN A GLOBAL ERA, 1917-2003\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.history.army.mil\/books\/AMH-V2\/AMH%20V2\/chapter10.htm\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EChapter 10. 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font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EMyths\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rjsmith.com\/war_myth.html\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMyths\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/viewarticle.cfm\/Who-Owns-the-Vietnam-War—11006\" target=\"blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWho Owns the Viet Nam War\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe History Place \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/unitedstates\/vietnam\/index-1965.htm\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETime line thru 1968\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/unitedstates\/vietnam\/index-1969.html\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETime line from 1969\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EInternational Socialist Review\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.isreview.org\/issues\/57\/feat-TET.shtml\" target=\"”blank:\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETet: Turning point in the Vietnam War\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Csub\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003Csup\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cstrike\u003E\u003C\/strike\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Csub\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003Csup\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cstrike\u003E\u003C\/strike\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1822821306304612968\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=1822821306304612968\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/1822821306304612968"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/1822821306304612968"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/the-tet-offensive-occurred50-years-ago.html","title":"TET 1968 - 50 Years later – A personal Narrative "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-4208404041941216529"},"published":{"$t":"2016-10-05T21:04:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-10-06T19:55:38.980-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Abortion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Church"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Culture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democracy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Election 2016"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics\/international Relations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Scripture"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Vote November Eighth"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EListen therefore, O kings, and understand; \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E learn, O judges of the ends of the earth. \u003Cbr \/\u003E Give ear, you that rule over multitudes,\u003Cbr \/\u003E and boast of many nations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E For your dominion was given you from the Lord,\u003Cbr \/\u003E and your sovereignty from the Most High,\u003Cbr \/\u003E who will search out your works\u003Cbr \/\u003E and inquire into your plans.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003EBecause as servants of his kingdom you did not rule rightly,\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003Enor keep the law, nor walk according to the purpose of God,\u003Cbr \/\u003E He will come upon you terribly and swiftly,\u003Cbr \/\u003E because severe judgment falls on those in high places.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003E For the lowliest man may be pardoned in mercy,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ebut mighty men will be mightily tested.\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E For the Lord of all will not stand in awe of any one,\u003Cbr \/\u003E nor show deference to greatness;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003Ebecause he himself made both small and great,\u003Cbr \/\u003E and he takes thought for all alike. \u003Cbr \/\u003E But a strict inquiry is in store for the mighty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E To you then, O monarchs, my words are directed,\u003Cbr \/\u003E that you may learn wisdom and not transgress.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003EWisdom 6: 1-9.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n　\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt is nice to think of our leaders as the “Kings and Judges”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nespecially when they are from a different political party\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nand consider the wrath of God with unjust joy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EBut\u003C\/strong\u003E This is a democracy; and at least on Election Day\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003Ewe all are the “Kings and Judges,”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nas servants of His Kingdom will we\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003Erule rightly when we vote?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Csub\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003Csup\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cstrike\u003E\u003C\/strike\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4208404041941216529\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=4208404041941216529\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/4208404041941216529"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/4208404041941216529"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2016\/10\/vote-november-first.html","title":"Vote November Eighth"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-2249957356608191534"},"published":{"$t":"2015-06-27T19:54:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-06-28T12:06:32.701-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Kipling"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"poetry"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Mary Gloster"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\"The \u003Ci\u003EMary Gloster\" i\u003C\/i\u003Es one of Rudard Kipling's greatest poems.  This video is how I pictured it when I first read it.  An excellent character study, don't think I would like the character. \u0026nbsp;Given some of his other works I think Kipling was at least ambivalent, but one of his strengths is speaking in the voice of his protagonist.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWatch and enjoy.\u003C\/b\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dv3QYDS0Dyc\" width=\"500\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kiplingsociety.co.uk\/poems_gloster.htm\" target=\"Blank\"\u003EThe \u003Ci\u003EMary Gloster\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E text.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnother short video which tells the story in pictures. \n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OV6FQe72nHM\" width=\"500\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2249957356608191534\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=2249957356608191534\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/2249957356608191534"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/2249957356608191534"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/the.html","title":"The \u003Ci\u003EMary Gloster\u003C\/I\u003E"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Dv3QYDS0Dyc\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-6310155056525081652"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-21T22:00:00.002-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-06T09:31:13.668-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Abortion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Best Of"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cambodia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Demicide"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"genocide"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Justice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"LAW"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics\/international Relations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Population"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Rwanda"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Social Justice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"US Supreme Court"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Genocide and Roe v Wade "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Today is the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe accusation is sometimes made that abortion is a form of genocide, especially aimed at the African American population.  The Rev. Dr. Clenard H Childress Jr.'s \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgenocide.org\/home.html\"\u003EBlack Genocide\u003C\/a\u003E web site is a leading example.  A summery of his key arguments is \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgenocide.org\/abortion.html\"\u003Eis here\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;It is pointed out deaths caused by abortion in the African American population is proportionally several times that in the white population, and it is claimed that this is the result of a deliberate policy and not just the result of a \"pattern and pratice\" or coincidence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;The July 7, 2009 edition of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\" target=\"“blank”\"\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/a\u003E carried an interview on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/12\/magazine\/12ginsburg-t.html?pagewanted=1\u0026amp;_r=1\" target=\"“blank”\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Place of Women on the Court \u003C\/i\u003E\n\u003C\/a\u003E with Justice of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg \u0026nbsp;which provides a good place to start..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\n\u003Ci\u003EQ: If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EJUSTICE GINSBURG: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don’t know why this hasn’t been said more often.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] \u003Cb\u003EFrankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003Egrowth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWhich some people felt would risk \u003Cb\u003Ecoercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want\u003C\/b\u003E them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EQ: When you say that reproductive rights need to be straightened out, what do you mean?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;JUSTICE GINSBURG: The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.\u003C\/i\u003E  Emphsis is mine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;********\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;N. B. To be fair to Justice Ginsburg (who was not on the court when the case was decided) it is not clear whether she is saying that she herself supported using the combination of Medicaid and abortion to reduce “populations we do not want to many of.” Clearly her stated opinion now is that abortion should only be an individual choice for a woman.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n********\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;But it is also clear testimony from a reliable source that there was significant approval in some political and judicial circles\u0026nbsp;for deliberately using abortion and Medicaid to harm populations “we do not want to many of“. Nor does she seem upset, that instead of protecting groups that some how meet the disapproval of the upper echelons of society the US government and especially the Supreme Court should help harm them.  One can't help but wonder how she would handle an\u0026nbsp;a c\u003Ci\u003Eertiorari\u003C\/i\u003E petition from  a member of group \"we do want to many of.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAlong with Justice Ginsburg, I remember that there was \u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003Econcern about population growth for supporting legalized abortion, the arguments supporting this reminded me of the Nazi arguments for the policy \u003Ci\u003Elebensraum\u003C\/i\u003E of which the Holocaust was the most prominent part, but with a much better sugar coating.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Csub\u003E\u003C\/sub\u003E\u003Csup\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cstrike\u003E\u003C\/strike\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe strong emphasis by the current administration that abortion and contraception benefits be included in the \"Affordable Health Care Act\" (Obamcare) at no cost to women seems to be a resurrection of the concept; this time combing Abortion and Obamacare to  reduce populations \"we do not want too many of\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWho are these groups \"we do not want to many of.\"  Justice Ginsburg does not seem to have identified them.   Given the history of race relations in the United States it is not surprising that many people feel that she was using \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/null\" ref=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Code_word_(figure_of_speech)\" target=\"“blank”\"\u003E“a code word”\u003C\/a\u003E for African Americans among others.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"Reducing populations we  do not want to many of\" seems like an understated description of the the Holocaust, Gulag, Cambodia's killing fields and the Rwandan genocide. Some of the more polemical comments would put her in the figurative ranks of the KKK and the SS, though as I noted she does not seem to have commented on whether or not she approves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;African Americans are a group that is protected under the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www2.ohchr.org\/english\/law\/genocide.htm\" target=\"“blank”\"\u003ECONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE, ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS ON 9 DECEMBER 1948 and Ratified by the Senate on 25\/11\/1988 to take effect 23\/02\/1989\u003C\/a\u003E\n\nOf course Roe v Wade was decided before the US adopted the Convention, But people had been tried and convicted for Genocide before the convention was approved by the UN and the implementation of Roe v Wade is continuing..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;Let's look at what the convention says:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E[G]enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such :\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;a) Killing members of the group;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;. . .\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;(f) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBy the Convention Abortion \u003Ci\u003Eper se \u003C\/i\u003Eis not genocide, but it can used a a means to kill members\u0026nbsp;of a protected group and\/or prevent births in a protected group; which would be genocide.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;At the very least \"imposing measures intended to prevent births\"  sounds similar to what Justice Ginsburg was saying about reducing populations \"we do not want to many of.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe key legal phrase in the Convention's definition is \"\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003Eintent\u003C\/b\u003E to destroy, in whole or in part,\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;One of the motivations for the action must be \"intent to destroy, in whole or in part.\" The same action taken without this motivation may be legal or illegal on other grounds, but it is not the crime of Genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;Justice Ginsburg provides us with a reasonable suspicion, \u0026nbsp;from a reliable source, that Roe v Wade\u0026nbsp;was intended to and is\u0026nbsp;being used to commit genocide. \u0026nbsp;The question comes down to what are the targeted groups and what are the motivations of the key players.  The proponents of abortion and Roe v Wade have always been careful to publicly state other motivations.\nAs noted Justice Ginsburg\u0026nbsp; states\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;that her only motivation is the protection of women's rights.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAre there other publicly unstated illegal motivations?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;A discovery or Grand Jury process would certainly be interesting, if some official had the political courage to start one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAbortion posts\n:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2004\/11\/cause-not-harm.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003ECause Not Harm\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/roe-vs-wade-choice.html\" target=\"“blank”\"\u003ERoe vs. Wade - Choice\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/when-oh-lord-when.html\" target=\"“blank”\"\u003EWhen Oh Lord When\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/criss-cross-democrats-republicans-and.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003ECriss Cross: Democrats Republicans and Abortion\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/roe-vs-wade-jenny-change-your-mind.html\"\u003EJenny Change Your Mind\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/roe-v-wade-is-absurd.html\"\u003ERoe v Wade is absurd\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRelated Posts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/book-review-death-by-government.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003EDeath by Government\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/never-again-and-again-and-again.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003ENever Again and Again and Again\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/rwanda-and-darfur-compared.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003ERwanda and Darfur Compared\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMore information.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.oas.org\/dil\/1948_Convention_on_the_Prevention_and_Punishment_of_the_Crime_of_Genocide.pdf\" target=\"blank\"\u003EUN Convention on Genocide\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/GENOCIDE.ENCY.HTM\" target=\"blank\"\u003EWhat is Genocide\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/welcome.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003ER J Rummel's Power Kills site\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.genocidewatch.org\/\" target=\"blank\"\u003EGenocide Watch\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMy \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Demicide\" target=\"blank\"\u003EGenocide\u003C\/a\u003E posts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"“blank”\"\u003ECrisis Pregnancy Resources\u003C\/a\u003E \n\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6310155056525081652\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=6310155056525081652\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 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"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-3328049521733160086"},"published":{"$t":"2014-11-11T00:12:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-11-11T00:12:36.967-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afganistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"American Revolution"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Civil War"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics\/international Relations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Veterans Day"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"WW1"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Veteran's Day 2014"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EFirst World War \u003C\/a\u003Enominally ended on November 11th. First celebrated as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armistice_Day\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EArmistice Day\u003C\/a\u003E, it became \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remembrance_day\" target=\"’blank”\"\u003ERemembrance Day\u003C\/a\u003E for the Commonwealth to honor those who had fallen. In the United States where \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EMemorial Day\u003C\/a\u003E already commemorated those who died defending our country it became \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veterans_Day\" target=\"’blank”\"\u003EVeteran’s Day\u003C\/a\u003E to also honor the veterans who came home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLord Grey, the British Foreign Minister described the beginning of the war as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/lights-go-out-in-europe.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003E\"The lamps are going out in Europe\"\u003C\/a\u003E. The immediate costs in dead and treasure of this ultimately pointless war were horrific. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/horror-of-trenches.html\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003Ehorror of the trenches\u003C\/a\u003E scarred the psyche of the Western world. The resulting despair allowed political movements to come to influence and power, which have changed for the worse Western culture, the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/WSJ.ART.HTM\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003Eholocaust and gulag\u003C\/a\u003E being just the tip of the iceburg. Too many of the lamps are still out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt is a hard truth that this is an especially appropriate day to remember our veterans living and dead. One of the very few bright spots were the solders and sailors whose dedication, loyalty, and valor shamed the politicians and “statesman” who sent them to war. They should always be remembered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut also we need to remember that in other wars it was this same dedication and valor that bought our Freedom and Liberty, certainly against the forces released as a result of the First World War.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEnjoy the holiday, but remember to think of and pray for those who served.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn 2007 \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.duffandnonsense.typepad.com\/\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EDavid Duff\u003C\/a\u003E objected to the war being called pointless. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dhchaos.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"”Blank”\"\u003EEl Jefe Maximo \u003C\/a\u003Eresponded. Their interesting and informative \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026amp;postID=9114394661738486468\u0026amp;isPopup=true\" target=\"”Blank”\"\u003Ediscussion\u003C\/a\u003E is a must read.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRelated posts:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/le-soldat-amricain-dans-afganistan.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003ELe Soldat Americain dans Afgaistan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/soldiers-are-people-too.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003ESoldiers are People, too\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/veterans-day-last-of-light-brigade.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003EThe Last of the Light Brigade.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/veterans-day.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003EThe Bivouac of the Dead\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/roynickerson.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/favorite-memorial-day-memory.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003ERoy Nickerson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dhchaos.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/11111918.html#comments\" target=\"“Blank”\"\u003E11\/11\/1918 (From Kingdom of Chaos)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/order-order.com\/2010\/11\/14\/remembrance-day-where-they-fell\/#comments\" target=\"'Blank\"\u003ERembrance Day - where They Fell\u003C\/a\u003E HT:\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\" target=\"Blank\"\u003EDavid Duff\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.annaraccoon.com\/politics\/requiem-for-tommy\/\" target=\"blank\"\u003ERequiem for Tommy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;HT: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.annaraccoon.com\/politics\/\" target=\"blank\"\u003EAnna Racoon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLabels:\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/WW1\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EWWI\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EVeterans Day\u003C\/a\u003E posts"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3328049521733160086\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=3328049521733160086\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/3328049521733160086"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/3328049521733160086"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/veterans-day-2014.html","title":"Veteran's Day 2014"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-6436469187343593230"},"published":{"$t":"2013-12-25T00:01:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-12-25T00:01:00.120-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FAITH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jesus Christ"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Josh Groban"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Zh-yR0pbmU?feature=player_detailpage\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003ESet to scenes from The Nativity Story... O Holy Night - by Josh Groban. Video Created by Youtube channel Tonycdrive.\u003C\/span\u003E\n\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6436469187343593230\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=6436469187343593230\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/6436469187343593230"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/6436469187343593230"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/merry-christmas.html","title":"Merry Christmas"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-3087056824588059815"},"published":{"$t":"2013-12-21T15:30:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-12-21T15:30:00.535-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Advent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FAITH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Humor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jesus Christ"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Celebrate Christ's Mass "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003Eand\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 180%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #009900;\"\u003EKeep\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"color: #cc0000;\"\u003EChrist\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"color: #009900;\"\u003Ein \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #cc0000;\"\u003EChristmas\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HxIIbFJ-J2Y?feature=player_embedded\" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"560\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan 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Road\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3087056824588059815\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=3087056824588059815\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/3087056824588059815"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/3087056824588059815"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/celebrate-christs-mass.html","title":"Celebrate Christ's Mass "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/HxIIbFJ-J2Y\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-2421651290172234358"},"published":{"$t":"2013-12-02T20:22:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-12-02T20:22:04.951-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Advent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FAITH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"St Cyril of Jersulem"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"He is Coming!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/s4.photobucket.com\/albums\/y103\/Hank_F_M\/?action=view\u0026amp;current=getimagewm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" width=\"120%\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Jesus adent ultrasound christmas\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i4.photobucket.com\/albums\/y103\/Hank_F_M\/getimagewm.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\"We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but a second as well, much more glorious than the first. The first coming was marked by patience; the second will bring the crown of a divine kingdom. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn general, whatever relates to our Lord Jesus Christ has two aspects. There is a birth from God before the ages, and a birth from a virgin at the fullness of time. There is a hidden coming, like that of rain on fleece, and a coming before all eyes, still in the future. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAt the first coming he was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At his second coming he will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming he endured the cross, despising the shame; in the second coming he will be in glory, escorted by an army of angels. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe look then beyond the first coming and await the second. At the first coming we said: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBlessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E At the second we shall say it again; we shall go out with the angels to meet the Lord and cry out in adoration: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBlessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Saviour will not come to be judged again, but to judge those by whom he was judged. At his own judgement he was silent; then he will address those who committed the outrages against him when they crucified him and will remind them: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EYou did these things, and I was silent.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHis first coming was to fulfil his plan of love, to teach men by gentle persuasion. This time, whether men like it or not, they will be subjects of his kingdom by necessity. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe prophet Malachi speaks of the two comings. \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAnd the Lord whom you seek will come suddenly to his temple:\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E that is one coming. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAgain he says of another coming: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELook, the Lord almighty will come, and who will endure the day of his entry, or who will stand in his sight? Because he comes like a refiner’s fire, a fuller’s herb, and he will sit refining and cleansing.\u003C\/i\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese two comings are also referred to by Paul in writing to Titus: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe grace of God the Saviour has appeared to all men, instructing us to put aside impiety and worldly desires and live temperately, uprightly, and religiously in this present age, waiting for the joyful hope, the appearance of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.\u003C\/i\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E Notice how he speaks of a first coming for which he gives thanks, and a second, the one we still await. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThat is why the faith we profess has been handed on to you in these words: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003EHe ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.\u003C\/i\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOur Lord Jesus Christ will therefore come from heaven. He will come at the end of the world, in glory, at the last day. For there will be an end to this world, and the created world will be made new.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ECatechism,\u003C\/i\u003E  St Cyril of Jerusalem, cira 350 A.D. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003EOffice of readings, First Sunday of Advent Second Reading\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2421651290172234358\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=2421651290172234358\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/2421651290172234358"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/2421651290172234358"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/he-is-coming.html","title":"He is Coming!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-8550448519904147106"},"published":{"$t":"2013-11-11T08:17:00.004-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-11-11T08:17:35.272-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"VeteransDay 2013"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EFirst World War \u003C\/a\u003Enominally ended on November 11th. First celebrated as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armistice_Day\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EArmistice Day\u003C\/a\u003E, it became \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remembrance_day\" target=\"’blank”\"\u003ERemembrance Day\u003C\/a\u003E for the Commonwealth to honor those who had fallen. In the United States where \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EMemorial Day\u003C\/a\u003E already commemorated those who died defending our country it became \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veterans_Day\" target=\"’blank”\"\u003EVeteran’s Day\u003C\/a\u003E to also honor the veterans who came home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLord Grey, the British Foreign Minister described the beginning of the war as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/lights-go-out-in-europe.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003E\"The lamps are going out in Europe\"\u003C\/a\u003E. The immediate costs in dead and treasure of this ultimately pointless war were horrific. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/horror-of-trenches.html\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003Ehorror of the trenches\u003C\/a\u003E scarred the psyche of the Western world. The resulting despair allowed political movements to come to influence and power, which have changed for the worse Western culture, the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/WSJ.ART.HTM\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003Eholocaust and gulag\u003C\/a\u003E being just the tip of the iceburg. Too many of the lamps are still out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt is a hard truth that this is an especially appropriate day to remember our veterans living and dead. One of the very few bright spots were the solders and sailors whose dedication, loyalty, and valor shamed the politicians and “statesman” who sent them to war. They should always be remembered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut also we need to remember that in other wars it was this same dedication and valor that bought our Freedom and Liberty, certainly against the forces released as a result of the First World War.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEnjoy the holiday, but remember to think of and pray for those who served.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn 2007 \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.duffandnonsense.typepad.com\/\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EDavid Duff\u003C\/a\u003E objected to the war being called pointless. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dhchaos.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"”Blank”\"\u003EEl Jefe Maximo \u003C\/a\u003Eresponded. Their interesting and informative \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026amp;postID=9114394661738486468\u0026amp;isPopup=true\" target=\"”Blank”\"\u003Ediscussion\u003C\/a\u003E is a must read.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRelated posts:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/le-soldat-amricain-dans-afganistan.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003ELe Soldat Americain dans Afgaistan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/soldiers-are-people-too.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003ESoldiers are People, too\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/veterans-day-last-of-light-brigade.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003EThe Last of the Light Brigade.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/veterans-day.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003EThe Bivouac of the Dead\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/roynickerson.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/favorite-memorial-day-memory.html\" target=\"“blank\"\u003ERoy Nickerson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dhchaos.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/11111918.html#comments\" target=\"“Blank”\"\u003E11\/11\/1918 (From Kingdom of Chaos)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/order-order.com\/2010\/11\/14\/remembrance-day-where-they-fell\/#comments\" target=\"'Blank\"\u003ERembrance Day - where They Fell\u003C\/a\u003E HT:\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\" target=\"Blank\"\u003EDavid Duff\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.annaraccoon.com\/politics\/requiem-for-tommy\/\" target=\"blank\"\u003ERequiem for Tommy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;HT: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.annaraccoon.com\/politics\/\" target=\"blank\"\u003EAnna Racoon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLabels:\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/WW1\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EWWI\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/\" target=\"”blank”\"\u003EVeterans Day\u003C\/a\u003E posts"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8550448519904147106\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=8550448519904147106\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/8550448519904147106"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/9146340\/posts\/default\/8550448519904147106"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/veteransday-2013.html","title":"VeteransDay 2013"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hank_F_M"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09851295792702162861"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"31","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1018\/504\/400\/E2.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146340.post-4296681476354702544"},"published":{"$t":"2013-07-03T23:47:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-07-03T23:47:49.407-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Fourth Of July 2013"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 180%;\"\u003EThe Declartion of Independence\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\nIN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\nThe unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 130%;\"\u003EWhen in the Course of human events,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 85%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003Esnip\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nWe hold these truths to be self-evident,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003Ethat all men are created equal\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nthat they are \u003Cstrong\u003Eendowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nthat \u003Cstrong\u003Eamong these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThat to secure these rights,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nGovernments are instituted among Men,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003Ederiving their just powers from the consent of the governed\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThat whenever \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nany \u003Cstrong\u003EForm of Government becomes destructive of these ends\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nit is the \u003Cstrong\u003ERight of the People to alter or to abolish it\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nand to \u003Cstrong\u003Einstitute new Government\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nlaying its foundation on such principles\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nand organizing its powers in such form, \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nas to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nPrudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nshould not be changed for light and transient causes;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nand accordingly all experience hath shewn,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nthat mankind are more disposed to suffer,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nwhile evils are sufferable,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nthan to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they re accustomed\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 85%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003Esnip\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\nWe, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EThat these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent 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width=\"100%\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 78%;\"\u003EPost Cemetery, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/fort-sheridan.html\" target=\"“blank”\"\u003EFt Sheridan, Illinois.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLet us Pray\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EFather\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nToday, though we are not worthy, we remember those who died in the service of their country, for it was your Son who taught us that he has no greater love than he who gives his life for another.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe ask You grant:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEternal rest to those who have died, and that your perpetual light shine upon them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStrength and comfort for their families.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThat those missing and captured may soon be returned to their families.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThat the wounded have a speedy recovery and a long and happy life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe thank you for those who have retuned safely home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLastly\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nwe ask that we will never need to add to those we remember this day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThy will be done.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe ask this through our Lord and Savior, your Son Jesus Christ, in union with the Holy Spirit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAmen"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com\/feeds\/424185889326725661\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=9146340\u0026postID=424185889326725661\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 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Coming"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/s4.photobucket.com\/albums\/y103\/Hank_F_M\/?action=view\u0026amp;current=getimagewm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" width=\"120%\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Jesus adent ultrasound christmas\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i4.photobucket.com\/albums\/y103\/Hank_F_M\/getimagewm.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ci\u003EGrant your faithful, we pray, almighty God,\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003Ethe resolve to run forth to meet your Christ\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nwith righteous deeds at his coming, \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nso that, gathered at his right hand,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nthey may be worthy to possess the heavenly kingdom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThrough our Lord Jesus Christ, \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nyour Son, who lives and reigns with you \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nin the unity of the Holy Spirit,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\none God, for ever and ever.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr 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