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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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