Government, Prayer and Action

Government leadership as exhorted by James Norman Mattis, General of U.S. Marines (ret.) - (Marines don’t retire - we attack in a new direction!) - is the determinant factor in all disasters - as is the benevolence of the better angels of the American people.?

When Prayer is Not Enough!

Lincoln?

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

November 21, 1864

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

Abraham Lincoln

History and Update

As Voltaire, Einstein, Bergson, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky, Kedrov, Verdnasky, Camus, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Sartre, Asimov, Fulton J. Sheen, Joan Baez, Scorpion and Bob Dylan have avowed, it is only by action that humanity effectively counters the horrors of violence, oppression, autocracy, abuse, war and today’s climate change.?

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