During the Second World War, German paratroopers invaded the island of Crete. When they landed at Maleme, the islanders met them, bearing nothing other than kitchen knives and hay scythes. The consequences of resistance were devastating. The residents of entire villages were lined up and shot. Overlooking the airstrip today is an institute for peace…
Tag: Parents
An Organization that has Done a Lot of Good
Both my wife’s father and my father were alcoholics at one time in their lives. It is a difficult thing to watch a person you love struggle with an addiction such as that. They both grew up during the age of ‘prohibition’. An exciting time between law enforcement and the cunning of men to meet…
On Doing Time
Fortunately, I have never done time, but I have had a good friend who did actually do time in prison. His name was Gene, and as a youth he was a member of a very unstable family. His parents divorced and he lived with one for awhile and then the other. His father was an…
On Rearing Children
Rearing or raising children is not an easy task for any couple let alone a single parent. My wife and I raised six healthy and caring children, not to say there were no problems. I rather doubt that any couple raising six children could say they did so without any problems or serious concerns. If…
On Don’t Forget
There is a saying that used to be popular : “Never forget where you came from.” Even though some may not forget, there may be some who may not want to remember. As a grown son, my little family never made it to where my birth family lived and worked but I never forgot. My…
On Letting the Universe Do Its Thing
I was watching a show on T.V. the other night called, ‘Swamp People’, a show about swamp men thinning out the swamp of an expanding population of alligators. Alligators are very dangerous animals and I believe that some even consider them to be prehistoric beasts. It is a very dangerous way to make a living….
On Self Respect-Honor
When I was a young boy during the Second World War, the Japanese people were considered by most, if not all Americans, as sneaky, cruel and hateful. As youth we called them, ‘yellow japs’. I Remember Pearl Harbor, the day the Japanese Navy unexpectedly bombed US Navy ships, with many sailors still on board. I…
On Being Good for Nothing
I remember reading the late Paul Harvey’s, “The Rest of the Story” when I was younger and how impressed I was with the stories of great people. One such story was about a young boy named ‘Guiseppe’. Guiseppe’s father was an Italian fisherman who came to America with his family, bought a fishing boat and…
On Preparation
As a youth in the 1930’s and 1940’s, preparation never crossed my mind once. Even though it hadn’t crossed my mind either as a word or as a process, I was able to watch it happening on a day to day bases, without realizing it. We had a large family with eight children. I watched…
On The Importance of Multiplying
The “Lord God, created all things…spiritually before they were naturally upon the face of the earth…and I created all the children of men; and not yet a man to till the ground; for in heaven created I them.” (Moses 3:5) All things were created spiritually before they were created naturally. When we contemplate the significance…