God bless and protect our soldiers defending freedom!
Never give in,
never give in,
never,
never,
never,
never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty –
never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Never yield to force;
never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
–Sir Winston Churchill
October 9, 1941
Speech given at Harrow School during World War II
My prayer:
Dear Heavenly Father,
Protect all the soldiers fighting against terror.

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Do not pray for easy lives!
Pray to be stronger men.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle,
but you shall be a miracle.
–Phillips Brooks.
My sister is taking the biggest step of her life! She will be going to an east Asia country to teach English as a second language.

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The Atchafalaya Basin is the U.S.’s largest river swamp, containing almost one million acres of our nation’s most significant bottomland hardwoods, swamps, bayous, and back-water lakes.
Here are photos of swampland. And here are some others of the wildlife found there.
Here is the aerial view of Atchafalaya Basin from Google.
*Louisiana.gov