Pecan Corner: And So it Goes in Shreveport: It's a Dual Holiday

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How cool is this? Check it out, lots of great links over at And So it Goes in Shreveport: It's a Dual Holiday - Flag Day and the U.S. Army's Birthday

Image: a recruiting poster for the first continental army.

"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
- George Washington

Welcome!

"The truth is, the greatest works for eternity are done not in mass crusades, but with one saint reaching one lost soul. "

~ David Wilkerson Devotions

"It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. "
~ Albert Einstein

"It's never too late to be what you might have been. "
~ George Eliot

"Get up. Always. Get up."
~ Ty Murray, on what to do when thrown off a bucking bull

"Once you start moving, you aren't afraid anymore."

~ Chris Norman, Britisher who, even though unarmed, helped subdue an armed Islamic terrorist aboard a French train.

“Walk toward the fire. Don’t worry about what they call you.” ~ Andrew Breitbart |

"And always, always, always use your own brain rather than borrowing someone else's."
~ Leslie, of the blog Alice the Camel

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” ~ Albert Einstein

"How do you know the feller what wrote the readin', wrote the readin' right?" ~ Festus Hagin in Gunsmoke (actor Ken Curtis)

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
~ C.S. Lewis

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." ~ Robert A. Heinlein

"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. "
~ Malcolm Muggeridge

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

And So it Goes in Shreveport: It's a Dual Holiday - Flag Day and the U.S. Army's Birthday

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