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Brady-Higgins Family Newsletter>
Quarterly Update
April 21, 2008
George Smitherman submitted the following...
Hello everyone.
I'm participating in Calhoun County's Relay for Life event
to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Please
visit my page to see what it's all about and to make a
donation if you'd like. http://main.acsevents.org/goto/ges2
Feel free to pass the word on to others.
Hope all is well with you all. God bless.
Thanks,
George Smitherman
Just in case you haven't seen this...(What exactly makes a
patriotic American??)
Monica Ferguson submitted the following...
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Subject: FW: THINGS THEY FORGET TO TELL US OR DECIDED NOT
TO TELL
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:20:49 -0400
From: henry.adams@ocps.net
To:
THINGS THEY FORGET TO TELL US OR DECIDED NOT TO TELL
Equally interesting, even though this has been out on the
internet for
weeks, it has not be picked up by the so called, mainstream
media.
Read, in its entirety...ironic outcome.
In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing
President
John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "Ask not what your country
can do for
you, but what you can do for your country," gave up his
student deferment,
left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the
Marines.
In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of
service in the
Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They
provide
medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy
personnel.) The
man did so well in corpsman school that he was the
valedictorian and
became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he
was assigned
to the Navy's premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval
Hospital, as a
member of the commander in chief's medical team, and helped
care for
President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery.
For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the
White House awarded him three letters
of commendation. While this young man was serving
six years on active duty, Vice President Dick
Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/sailor,
received five deferments, four for being an under
graduate and graduate student and one for being
a prospective father. Presidents Bill Clinton
and George W. Bush, both five years younger than
the African-American youth, used their student
deferments to stay in college until 1968. Both
then avoided going on active duty through family
connections.
Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his
studies
to serve his country for six years or our three political
leaders who beat the system?
Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice
something or those
who merely talk about their love of the country?
After leaving the service of his country, the
young African-American finished his final year of college,
entered the seminary, was ordained as a minister, and
eventually
became pastor of a large church in one of America 's
biggest cities.
This man is The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the retiring pastor
of Trinity
United Church of Christ. The controversial pastor who the
Clintons
hoped would ruin Obama's chances of winning the Democratic
Nomination for the Presidency.
From Rev. Andre Kellum...
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