Posted on 01/17/2010 5:00:00 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
Edited on 01/17/2010 10:12:43 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
In 1955, when the South was still highly segregated, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, visited relatives in Mississippi. After Emmett “dared” to talk to a white woman, two white men brutally murdered him. An all-white, male jury found the two “not guilty”—after deliberating for barely an hour. The two men later confessed to the crime in a Life magazine article.
Following the verdict, Emmett’s mother said, “Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to Negroes in the South, I said, ‘That’s their business, not mine.’ Now I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.”
Making another’s concerns our own is what Leviticus 19:18 calls us to do: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Jesus quotes this verse and interprets it as not placing any limitations on loving those around us (Matt. 22:39; Luke 10:25-37). Our neighbor doesn’t just mean someone close by; it’s anyone who has a need. We are to care for others as we care for ourselves.
To love our neighbor means to make the persecution, suffering, and injustice of our fellow human beings our own. It is the business of all who follow Christ.
Thank you for making Rick Rescorla the focus of the Hall of Heroes. He certainly deserves to be there. I do not know if this is covered in other posts, but at the risk of being redundant I’ll say it here. Rick Rescorla was recognized as a huge hero after 9/11 for saving all his people on 9/11. His story was told in The New Yorker (yes, the New Yorker) magazine afterwords, with a deep appreciation for all his sacrifices. It was a fascinating article and discussed at length his relationship with another man he had served with in war. This other man later converted to Islam, and became concerned with much of what he heard in various Mosques (in the US). It was this “inside” knowledge that enabled Rescorla to be wise to the threats abounding.
This coverage was all in the first days after 9/11, before the Dems got wise to the idea that this whole patriotism thing might help the Pubbies. It was after that that the new unity that the attacks of 9/11 had sadly forged was (I truly believe) willfully and maliciously torn apart by the Democratic Party.
All hyperbole aside, I will never forgive them for that.
Thank God Almighty in Heaven that there are to this day men like Rick Rescorla. And Thank God for FR that gives honor to them.
If anyone wants to research the piece in the New Yorker, I hope you can find it. His wife (widow) also did a bunch of interviews, their story is very romantic.
I hate what the Dem Party has done to this country since 9/11.
If the mods take my post down, so be it. But thank you for giving me the opportunity to express myself.
God Bless Rick Rescorla, God Bless Wales, Australia and the USA.
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StarCMC did a great job, with the help of Aloha Ronnie, of putting together this presentation on Rick Rescorla...a true hero!
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Please welcome my dear freind Lady Nam Vet to The Canteen!
Lady, are you here?
Cargo is loaded onto a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft at Hurlburt Field, Fla., for transport to Haiti in support of humanitarian operations on Jan. 14, 2010. The Air Force is providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to Haiti after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the country on Jan. 12, 2010. DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper Jr., U.S. Air Force. (Released)
U.S. Navy C-2A Greyhound transport aircraft from Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 40 prepare to deploy from Norfolk, Va., to support the first wave of earthquake relief efforts in Haiti on Jan. 14, 2010. This is part of a larger relief effort spearheaded by the U.S. government to help those affected by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake. DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Scott D. Cohen, U.S. Navy. (Released)
Good evening, free...you sure got that right!
When you are new here, it can be kinda tricky to maneuver around...
Hang in there Lady, and keep trying!
Good evening, ms b...((HUGS))...hope you got some rest today.
This being reproted on Twitter remember those Chinese riots well now cell phone service being restored by the Chinese six month after riot
BOY Chinese pretty fast NOT
BreakingNews Text-messaging service is restored in Xinjiang region of China, 6 months after ethnic riots in capital
And China throw a diva fit
Drudge_Report China move threatens to delay Iran sanctions... http://tinyurl.com/yd9qbvj
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