Posted on 05/23/2006 3:50:36 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
wiseacre
Didja get pictures to share?
Nah, nary a camera in sight. ;(
Now there's a word ya hear everyday.
May 28, 2006
READ: Ephesians 6:10-18
Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. —2 Corinthians 11:14 In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical The Phantom of the Opera, a young chorus girl named Christine Daae receives voice training from a mysterious musician she calls the “Angel of Music.” Christine believes this is the angel her dying father had promised to send to complete her musical training.
As the plot thickens, we find that her mysterious mentor is really a demented man who wants to carry her away into a bizarre underworld beneath the opera house. What the girl thinks is a supernatural agent sent by her beloved father is really a madman who wants to possess her for his own ends. The “Angel of Music” is evil masquerading as good.
The believer in Christ also faces an evil one who masquerades. One of Satan’s key strategies is to look like someone who is good. Paul told us, “Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14). The Greek word translated as “transforms” means “to change appearance, masquerade, or disguise oneself.”
In preparing us to face the evil strategies of the devil, God has provided all the equipment we need to stand our ground. Protecting ourselves with the armor of God unmasks the evil that opposes us and stabilizes our spiritual walk (Ephesians 6:10-18).
Bible in One Year: Bible in One Year: 2 Chronicles 4-6; John 10:24-42
Soldiers and Marines pose at the only remaining bricks from the original Indianapolis Motor Speedway track. The servicemembers were guests of Checkers/Rally's restaurants for the Checkers/Rally's Indy 500 Pit Stop Challenge. Photo by Samantha L. Quigley
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I just ran across this article on MG Conner. How wonderful! Good for You! He has been a source of fascination to me for several years and I have devoted the last four to writing a soon to be published book on his life, as well as Eisenhower's mentoring while assigned to Camp Gaillard, Panama. It is unfortunate that Gen. Berry's article is still sold as accurate history. With all due espect to the General, who probably was ghost written, many of his dates and assignements do not jive with the official record nor does his version of Eisenhower's intro to Conner square with the historical record. Virgina Conner's long lost book, "What Father Forbad" offers unique insight into that relationship. Berry does not use it as a source.His date of the meeting is also a year off. His fact checker was asleep at the switch. It's unfortunate Gen. Berry put his name to this much used article, without having the facts verified. Also, as an aside, the picture of the bi-plane aircraft on the site is not from Panama in the 20's, but from actually from Eisenhower's assignment in the Philippines..next to Ike stands his close friend "Gee" Gerow who was killed in an aircraft accident while stationed there with Ike as the two were assigned as aides to MacArthur. An assignment that Ike came to loathe.
General Conner was a talented and blunt spoken man whose lines Patton often used; "the crap through a goose" line of the Geo. C. Scott film can be traced to a lecture given by Conner at the War College in 1933, with Patton attending. Conner and Patton were good friends having both married wealthy, strong willed women who were both pharmaceutical/notions heiresses.Avid outdoorsmen, they once rented a houseboat and fished their way from Tampa to Havanna Bay.
I agree MG Conner is a historical enigma...so much so that most of the bio's and snippets of his life are highly innacurate...being a very private man...he probably liked it that way.
I am happy to correspond with anyone regarding MG Conner, Camp Gaillard and young Major Eisenhower. My address is russlaw2000@yahoo.com
My best,
Russ S.
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