A New England Mother’s Thoughts on Memorial Day: “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their … half-gaiters?” What?!
The air was thick with gunpowder and fear as I crouched behind the rough earthen walls we’d scrambled to build atop Breed’s Hill in these last hours of June 17, 1775, and the British were coming — red coats glinting like blood in the summer sun. General Israel Putnam...
What a Child of the 50’s and 60’s Has Learned About “Freedom in Christ.” How I learned to overcome the chains of daily life.
Life is tense and intense in many ways. There are numerous freedom movements, but there is only one unlimited, one perfect freedom. Dave Borchers says that he found peace and freedom in the midst of life’s turmoils when he accepted that it was Jesus Christ who...
Tragedy | Pathos | Triumph Reflections on a terrible battle that spawned the ethos of three modern nations
THE WORDING AT THE ANZAC memorial in Gelibolu (Gallipoli), Turkey, reads thus — “Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives … you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore, rest in peace. There is no difference between the...
