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to the editor from this week's Chronicle Redneck Review! No. 337 - 10/10/21 Random thoughts and topics! Time flying by, daily news depressing, and a series of letters from an old friend recently catching my attention, presented several options for this issue of this weekly RNR. So one at a time, following you will see some random comments on some of the issues that clutter my thoughts as the following thoughts are put on paper! #1) Last week was repeated word for word a summary of a RNR written in 2015, identifying some of the news items at that time: "Mass slayings in Paris...in Oregon... and other parts of the world...beheadings put on TV...by ISIS...causing large numbers of fugitives wanting to escape the terror in their home country's...more national debt to bolster sagging economies...will it ever stop...or more important, can an individual do anything about it?" Then followed a brief account of an event that happened exactly 104 years ago, just three days after the date found on this article above, 10/13, in far away Fatima, Portugal. when as promised, a heavenly lady, Mary the mother of Jesus, appeared for the sixth month in a row, and the world wide recognized phenomenon of the MIRACLE OF THE SUN took place before an estimated 70,000 rain drenched spectators. Local and distant newspapers far and wide reported on the event, as the horrified crowd first were convinced the whirling sun was going to destroy the earth, then to their amazement, the ground around and all their clothing was instantly dry, as the sun receded back into its normal place in the heavens. The message left by the heavenly lady at the time? That WWI would end in the next few years, but that a later far more deadly and destructive world war would break out unless sufficient prayer and sacrifice was offered by the world's population. Also predicted by the lady was the spread of communism around the world also, unless the requests made at the time were heeded. There is much more to the story and the predictions of course, but today, that 104 years later, we have seen the predicted WWII come and go, many others before and after, and the solid growth of atheistic communism taking over country after another, and now making serious inroads into our own United States! Evidently the requests made by the heavenly lady have not been full filled by enough of us! So I guess that forces each of the Christians among us to ask, "It is I Lord, have I been doing my part?" #2) Then there is the recent events in Kabul with varying news reports, ranging from a huge headline on the front page of our regional newspaper, the Lewiston Tribune, proclaiming happily 20-YEAR OLD WAR ENDED! Good news of course for all of us, BUT... accounts also followed about our military leaving ahead of our civilians, of an estimated $85 to $90 billion of military weapons left behind, plus a large number of U.S. citizens still stranded there, say nothing of the thousands of native friends there left to the wrath and torture of the Taliban! Also, an amazing claim by some of our top military brass that the sudden take over by the Taliban was UNEXPECTED. Later accounts showed a map of the area slowly coming under the control of the Taliban over the past several months! Who knows what to believe? #3) Finally, a series of letters from an old friend of mine who served in Vietnam for two and ½ years. The Kabul pullout reminded him of the "things that haunt me from my years in Vietnam. I will propose to you how the press distorted facts, caused the end of a war that would have given freedom to the South Vietnamese, how it ruined the lives of many service members, and made villains of us by just totally distorting the truth...for the sake of sensationalism, 'the hell with the truth'...and in so doing ruined the lives of many young soldiers away from family who were taught we were all dope addicts and baby killers." (More to come in weeks ahead!) Jake Wren |
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