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Thursday, June 17, 2010

What I passed in my first year of Graduation in B. Sc. (Math) studies at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide. South Australia in 1990-91



I have passed first year of Graduation in B. Sc. (Math) studies at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide. South Australia in 1990-91 with Physics I, Math I and thus the following (Study load 24 points and work 20 hours per week, with 1 Distinction and a Credit):

1. Introduction to Metaphysics (Philosophy IA)

2. Introduction to Morality, Society and the Individual (Philosophy IB)

3. Introduction to Physics, Man and Society I

4. Introduction to Logic I (The Art of Logically Creative Criticism)

5. Math I

6. Physics I

I have had carried the following research works (thesis works) and seminar at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia in 1990:          

1.    A Seminar on Physics: Natural Science - Individual and the Society

2.    Law of Gravitation-Generalization of Development of Human Intellect (Distinction)

3.    Is There Any Possibility of Life in the Universe? – A Natural Human Quest (Credit)   

4.    Does Soul Exist? : A Confirmatory Argument by Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

5.    Existence of God and Problem of Evil - A Discussion on the Problem of Goodness and Evil

6.    The Hard Determinism, the Soft Determinism and Liberalism - Problem of Free Will

7.    Does Morality Depend on Religion? - A Discussion on Divine Command Theory

Thanks for your reading.

P.S.: The above shared certificate of passing my first year is the xerox or photocopy of the original. Thanks!



Written and contributed by Dr. Harmander Singh

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Immigration and Migration Problems are not a Joke - I Wish I Were a Joker - How to Bark at a Wrong Door



Thanks for your viewing and reading. Yes, the Immigration and Migration Problems are not a Joke - I Wish I Were a Joker - How to Bark at a Wrong Door


Friday, June 11, 2010

My 3 Oaths and Letters of Appreciation from Australia and District Education Officer Patiala



I have taken 3 Oaths and it helps me in keep going:

Scout Oath

On my honour, I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to God[1] and my country,
To help other people at all times,
And to obey the Scout/Guide Law.

The Scout/Guide Law has the following main points included in the 3rd Scout Oath:

Scout Law

1. A Scout/Guide is trustworthy

2. A Scout/Guide is loyal

3. A Scout/Guide is a friend to all and a brother/sister to every other Scout/Guide.

4. A Scout/Guide is courteous

5. A Scout/Guide is a friend to animals and loves nature.

6. A Scout/Guide is disciplined and helps protect public property.

7. A Scout/Guide is courageous.

8. A Scout/Guide is thrifty.

9. A Scout/Guide is pure in thought, word and deed.


This movement serving worldwide has a mission:

"The mission of Scouting is to contribute to the education of young people, through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society."

[1] - The word "Dharma" may be substituted for the word "God" if so desired.

(http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/The_Bharat_Scouts_and... )

The Main Website in India: http://www.bsgindia.org/

Like all other scout and guide masters around the world, I have taken these 3 oaths on 14th of August, 1996, while obtained the Certificate of Basic Scout Master at the Tara Devi Camp, the hilly station near Shimla in Himachal Pardesh.

I received a Letter of Appreciation from District Education Officer as shown above.

The other letter is from my principal, Mr. I. B. Muirden where I studied 10+2 (Year 11 and 12) at Adelaide, South Australia. There was an Indian scout master.




Many of my readers and some friends think that I write bit roughly about western countries and in some cases about the Australia. It is totally false and wrong assumption. Why?

Reason: We know the people in the west never interfere with life of others, but some, a very few people have started to play tactics for changing public opinions in the west, and thus people in the advanced or the developed countries have started to give opinions, which they have never done in the human history before, and still avoid to do so when we discuss with them seeking any personal opinion.

It is dignity and standard of living in the civilized cultures, which need attention not just in the developed countries, but also in the developing countries. My point is not at all about any western country, but the ones, who create and thus influence the opinions. In my more than 24 months studies in Australia, I did not meet even a single person, who would ever give any opinion. What media says is not public opinion.

We the people in the east and west love one another, but the opinions promote business and marketing, and thus as I said it what I write or say has nothing to do with the nation or its public, but a very few people. I hope it clarifies my point.

Thanks for your reading it. 

Written and contributed by Dr. Harmander Singh

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

My 3 Oaths

I have taken 3 Oaths and it helps me in keep going:

Scout Oath

On my honour, I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to God[1] and my country,
To help other people at all times,
And to obey the Scout/Guide Law.

The Scout/Guide Law has the following main points included in the 3rd Scout Oath:

Scout Law

1. A Scout/Guide is trustworthy

2. A Scout/Guide is loyal

3. A Scout/Guide is a friend to all and a brother/sister to every other Scout/Guide.

4. A Scout/Guide is courteous

5. A Scout/Guide is a friend to animals and loves nature.

6. A Scout/Guide is disciplined and helps protect public property.

7. A Scout/Guide is courageous.

8. A Scout/Guide is thrifty.

9. A Scout/Guide is pure in thought, word and deed.

This movement serving worldwide has a mission:

"The mission of Scouting is to contribute to the education of young people, through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society."

[1] - The word "Dharma" may be substituted for the word "God" if so desired.

(http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/The_Bharat_Scouts_and... )

The Main Website in India: http://www.bsgindia.org/

P.S.: Like all other scout and guide masters around the world, I have taken these 3 oaths at the end of the scouting camp (5th of August - 14th of August) on 14th of August, 1996, while obtained the Certificate of Basic Scout Master at the Tara Devi Camp, the hilly station near Shimla in Himachal Pardesh. Thanks!

Mental Health Care and Treatments in the Developing Countries – A Review

We have greater need for health care services in many parts of the
world, particularly in the developing countries, where it is not well
provided by the governments except in few cases. So, the private
sector plays an important role in it. If there is less attention paid
at the governmental hospitals and health care centers, the private
sector is not only costly, but there is so much competition that one
can go to any extreme to win the gold medal as the best service
provider. We discuss this great health concern in this review.

The worst that happens in such cases is that these doctors usually
join a penal that has higher authority than normal team of doctors. If
it happens to be team of doctors from around the world, it is not just
a penal, but a kind of NGO extension that can surpass even the
governments. To join such national and internal penal, one simply
need to prove not the medical standards, but the social pathology,
which one can claim even without being a expert of the field on which
the penal works. For example, the dental doctor can qualify to give
the sociological aspects blended with psychology in general. It can
include almost all faculties of knowledge that can add to such medical
works.

This very thing has been warned as not to over trust or rely on
others. Also being over suspicious is avoidable. However, many people
in mental cases, who are schizophrenic or religious usually, have
suspicious nature and doubts. This very nature of suspicion and
doubting is highly common among creative people, but in medical
manipulations it can be proved as mental sickness.

The doctors, who want medal does ignore the fact that people, who has
strong faith lack confidence and thus cannot hide their doubts, fears,
and thus suspicious nature as they use it for curiosity and creative
imagination for exploring the unknown, which is full of uncertainty
and thus the fear of unknown remains present. It has great effect on
the knowledge that gives confidence because without knowledge one
cannot be confident.

The person or patient with faith has interest in the invisible and
thus the unknown, the lack of knowledge about it keeps one fearful,
suspicious, doubtful, curious, nervous, and all that can be as if a
kind of danger of unknown. However, it does not constitute enough
evidence to prove that one is cynical and suspicious until one has
less than required knowledge, but the manipulator can easily prove it
in any way as mental problem or sickness.

It does not mean that people do not have mental problems. There are
98% of us facing some kind of mental problems, and only 2% do not face
as they are mad.

We take an example of a case in which the mental health care is
provided by the doctors, who are not related with this field, but try
to prove as all rounder. It makes things so serious and complicated
that one does not become a patient, but a victim. The reason for is
not lack of health services or medicines, but the irrelevant person
trying to be sharp. For example, if a doctor is of dental health care
(just an assumption as it can be from any specialization) and acts on
behalf of psychiatrist for observations, all will be based on the
observations for the given case. Now, the dental doctor can make the
medical observations in context of social pathology, in which the
network and web-work is not medical pathology, but social and thus we
may assume it as social pathology.

Now, in such cases, as the doctor have more rights than the civilians
and also patients. It can go to any extreme. This thing is not
detectable or traceable as the system does not allow such a minute
analysis or scrutiny. It is thus simply an inquiry in which the doctor
also acts as a lawyer because all doctors know about the right they
have and thus the medical law. The statements given by the patients
can be overruled as if given in state of anger or psychological
problem as is it is in the general law of the country.

When all evidences are given by the people, who are healthy and fully
aware and conscious, all witnesses go in favor of the medical sector.
All have one common fear, the evidence given against a doctor can be
as fatal as if it is not a doctor, but someone, who can take revenge
when the circumstances change, and thus can harm the family of the
patient cum victim. This threat is further protected by the doctors by
taking more rights from the governments. Thus, they become a kind of
authority that has more rights than they deserve, but there can be no
appeal against it. The reason is same, all of us need medical care and
if the medical sector gets witnesses that prove that all has something
hidden in the entire medical sector, the public or common people feel
afraid of it.

In my observations, I have noticed the doctors in many cases acting as
if armed forces or military acts. The reason is very simple, the
military or armed forces are needed for immediate action or operation
and the doctors all do the same. They have to acts quickly as
possible. It needs full freedom to act, the defense system, which
includes police also depend on what the doctors say. It makes the
entire system full of many problems that has deep roots.

The rivalry among the doctors in the private sector goes to extremes
against one another. The conspiracies that take place in the medical
sector and trying to hide all proofs make it a civilian justice court
in which the doctors may acts as lawyer, judge and healer
simultaneously. This makes a doctor not just a healer but also gives
the state of God, as when a life is saved one becomes a savior and
thus claims it. This very claim that one has simply tried to save a
life has all that can put to grave. Thus it graves the law and all
civilian rights. The families of the dead person a patient cum victim
also believes that their family member is getting the best possible.
The doctor can threat anyone in the name of disease and thus if not
cured can bring death.

No family wants death, so the family obeys all that is said by the
doctor. It does not mean that the doctors are wrong. All cannot be
thief and all cannot be saints. We are simply discussing about the
person, who uses a mask. We are thus talking about the mask not about
the person or in this case a doctor.

In our mental case, we have a patient, who if cured can make anyone a
great doctor. So, this invites the runners for the gold medal. It can
a patient of any other disease say AIDS, Cancer, TB, and the endless
list. However, if one is cured the medal is there. Thus, a doctor can
hire another doctor. It helps to make sure that the team work was done
in an authentic and ethical way. It has all copyrights, legal rights
and thus a seal that no one can ever reopen. It makes it a secret that
is never revealed. Now, the observations that one doctor makes, has
authority to do so. It helps to ensure that it was not unauthorized.

How much manipulation is there is yet another secret that the involved
team members may not even share with one another. It makes sure that
the doctor involved has done all things in such a way that a life is
saved. However, in the mental cases, the problems differ a bit, one
can become a dependent and some partially that favors few things,
which one by and with full conscience may never do start to play its
role. Thus, the basic problem is that whatever claims the team members
has made cannot be challenged as if one is contradict even for a
single statement or observation, the others are there, and above all
the law that protects it not as negligence, but a right thing while
doing the best possible.

We need special attention about how the medical tests and reports are
manipulated. For example, a sample of sweat or perspiration can give
lot of information, but it can be easily tempered or changed in such a
way that it is not possible to have any dispute. These hundreds of
proof constitute a long term, may be for 5-15 years, and thus trusted
record that no one can challenge.

These observations and records, which are basically tempered ones, can
constitute enough data and information to give a solid evidence to
make sure that all that goes as medical treatment fulfills the records
needed to prove anything – true or false is not the matter over here.

Let us raise another point that has a gist in such cases. In the
social pathology, a plan or conspiracy is well planned thing that is
often made to make a person suitable for certain task or experiment.
One going through such medical tests and experiments may not ever know
that it is the process of conditioning and thus even if one reveals
it, no matter false or true, one assumes or becomes a conditioned
person, while believing that one knows the truth. This is another
point of killing the conscience is conditioned way, which one accepts
as so called destiny. However, this destiny is well planned and one
goes through it for years or perhaps for generations.

We do not need to go into these details as nowadays, we understand
that one can easily become suspicious or doubtful, but it what the
traditions, cultures, religions and faiths do, but while one is fully
aware and conscious about the process. Our point here is about when
one is not conscious of what is happening with his or her family and
oneself.

Now, the problem that the team of doctors and the mental patient may
keep alive is to keep proving. If the patient does anything different
from the sealed report, it is alert for the team. They again do the
same circumstantial work to reprove it. Thus, it is the death of
conscience, which has been as if mesmerized. Then, the statements
given by the patient has no value in the higher authorities and world
community in general. If the patient says something in favor and
desirable it helps all, and if one does not hurt anyone at all.

The reason is again very simply. The wrong things said by the patient
are abnormal symptoms, which always has been justified from the
centuries. This is an easy way to make one schizophrenic and then
using the creative intelligence till the end of life. Such patients
include many researchers, whose behavior is normally schizophrenic.
The recognition has never been given to such people, but their works
are widely used as the raw material. They are simply the mental
laborers.

Now, the doctors that prove all that starts from abnormal to
schizophrenic and finally claiming it to be cured get the medals, the
recognition, name, fame and whatever they need. The patients remains
silently graved in the research reports saying that the treatments was
tried and found successful among 10, 0000 patients around the world
and the team that participated in it are as follows.

The patient has proud of being in the list of some 10, 0000 people,
who responded well to the treatments. It is very sad thing to say and
it is not at all a taunting or joking.

The patients are selected in such a way that if one gets aware, there
can be many ways and thus already set proofs that can show the gender
game playing in the audios and videos about how man is woman and woman
is man, a common problem that most of the youth learns from imitating
the opposite sex right from the childhood. If one is at subconscious
level and does something that is a proof, but surely it seems to
invite serious attention if one was brought to this level by medicines
or suggestions and thus the circumstantial effects that has a great
effect on human psychology. We in India have 8 categories of marriage,
about which are discussing just one. This is called the Pishaach
Marriage, in which one is medically abused with drugs to prove as
either immoral or all other that we can relate to sex and morality.

The medical panel in which one wants to check how a noble or person of
good character would feel if one has to go through unethical, immoral
and extra-martial relations, and such things can do greater harm than
good. We now know that medical sector wants to explore what controls
the conscience decisions, the essence of ethics and value system.
However, it is seduction in such a way that anyone can be proved
either tempted or immoral. This is common fear of all God fearing
people and those, who strongly value the commitments in human
relations. Now, the sex, will and moral have a great relation as one
relates to desires, one to determination and the last to ethics. The
sex is not the only factor, any desire to possess anything without
moral is cheating or immoral and thus mismanagement of desire. In it,
the Indian Philosophy and Psychology suggests 4 main points:

1. Duty (Dharma) – Philosophical Aspects
2. Money and Possessions (Arth) – Economical Aspects
3. Desire and Sex (Kama) – Psychological Aspects
4, Moksha (The Freedom of Self-liberation) – Spiritual Aspects

The priority to these is given equally as these are interrelated.

Now, without doing one's duty one is not mentally normal, if one does
not care for money and possession one is not mentally normal, if one
cannot control emotions leads to mental abnormality and finally if one
starts dwelling how others think and feel; one can never liberate from
this influence to have one's own thoughts and feelings. The last point
of self-liberation is to be a human with all that one learns from
self-experiences not from books or opinions of others about how one
should think, feel and act.

This makes it easier for the manipulating doctor to know and cheat
knowingly as this vast knowledge can be proved and disproved very
easily without any experiences as all it needs data and tests that can
be tempered and or manipulated. This thing is known and felt by
conscience. I strongly appeal to the doctors and the medical teams
involved in such works to take care that anyone among them does not
get the advantage of any type by manipulating to get name, fame,
recognition and all that has to do with the medal. Simply think about
the patient or conscience that goes through it, which is not humanly
way of working for evolution whether medically, technologically or any
other method.

I have said and written it as a doctor of Alternative Medicines in my
full conscience not under any influence.

Thanks for your time to read.

P.S.: Please let me know if there is any question or suggestion. Thanks!

Friday, June 4, 2010

Strorytime Tapestry - The Little Earthquake

Storytime Tapestry Newsletter
The newsletter devoted to spreading love and cultural awareness around the world.

June 3, 2010   
Announcements: 
Happy Birthday:    
Happy Anniversary:     
Prayer requests And Prayers Answers:
Please say a prayer for my brother Michael DeVoe of Alabama, for he was in a roller over accident 2 yrs ago and has been in a vegetative state since with no change. Yesterday I got word they took him off all machine and now it's just time.
Please say a prayer for him and his family.
He is leaving behind a wife, two boys and grandchildren
Jim,
furface1948@aol.com
Please pray for the following people and forward to to other prayer groups.
Thank you!
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Kenney Little jr.
He is in Afganhistan near Kandrea. Please pray for God to put a veil of protection around he and his wife and un born child. He and his wife are in the Marine Corps. She is stationed some where else. He has a 12 month duty there.
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Robert Little his grand father, who is having blood work to see a Heart doctor the week of 6/07/10. For the out come to be of a positive nature. For complete healing of his past Heart attack.
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For karie, Thomas, Maddie, and Sophie, for their health.
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For David Little on his up coming hernia surgery on June 11th. For his wife Trish; Salvation. That she is led to accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior.
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For Karen Farley for her thyriod condition and for her families health and finances.
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For Salvation for Kevin and Misako Miller. For Mike and Nancy Weber.
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Please pray for Katsuyo Farley For healing and good health as well as finances.
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For brother_jim@s-g-w.org who is having surgery on June 7, 2010. that God guides the minds, hands, and knowledge of all doctors, nurses, and staff personal from the time of check in to the time after check out including in home nurses and Physical aid personal, going to his home for his health care. 
 
For God to open a financial window to provide needed funds for his rent and expenses, during the time of the surgery to when he can go back to work. He needs both hips replaced, one at a time and it could take up to 6 weeks to 2.5 months. He has no funds available except social security, not enough to cover his rent for one month.
If God so leads you, send what you can, to, James Little, POB 13794, Las Vegas, NV 89112.
Thank you for all the prayers.
brother_jim@s-g-w.org
~**~**~


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Today's Featured Story

THE LITTLE EARTHQUAKE
Silke Blumbach

Tired, overwhelmed. overworried.

I cannot do everything. I cannot earn enough money to live consistently without worries.

Freedom from worries, thus, cannot be expected from more money. There must be another way.

Releasing? Indifference towards my bank account and my financial obligations? I cannot be indifferent. I can just eliminate pain.

I can see that I breathe now, in this moment, that I am connected to so many and so much, that I love so many and so much, that I am loved and held. That I have a soul place and a soul mate.

Am I safe?

There was a little earthquake yesterday, here in Saranda. Abroad in Kosova, the media reported only a little earthquake in Greece. But it was here, too.

Sometimes, dazing on my bed, I had felt a tiny wave going through my body and wondered whether it was an earthquake. In the West of yesterday, in the East of tomorrow, and here. This time it was stronger and consisted of several shaking pulses. I felt it with awe and astonishment. Was this really an earthquake? What else could it be? I was fascinated and completely free of fear, for it was a tiny earthquake, not a baby anymore, but an innocuous toddler. Nothing fell down, nothing burst, nothing crashed. Only that strange, extremely fascinating feeling from Mother Earth through Platon's and Fotini's ground floor up to my flat into my body. And the thrill of not knowing what would be next.

Having digested the surprise, I went into the next door frame, because I had read that this is the safest place in an earthquake. Do not go outside, because you may be knocked down by a falling house. I leaned my back on the massive wood and waited, but the show was over.

I went out on the balcony. The sea was deep down, reassuringly far away. Some people were working calmly in a garden below. "Was this an earthquake?" I called. No answer. They didn't notice me.

I thought about the writings and channelled messages about the long-awaited and now arriving ascension of the Earth. This is a time where many people have decided to leave, whereas others have decided to stay, to help global enlightenment. I have decided to stay ... will I really stay? The Earth is releasing negativity in this necessary phase. From this perspective, it is no wonder that an earthquake may also happen in my little beach town. After all, everything being part of a giant improvement plan, and everybody being an immortal soul, there is nothing really to fear ...

When I switched on Radio Saranda, before the folklore program, the first news was: "Today the town of Saranda was struck by a little earthquake. (So I was right!) At 12.30 o'clock, some seismic shocks incurred, which lasted for 30 seconds. As Saranda does not have any seismic station, no indication can be made about the strength of the earthquake." Later I looked up the Richter scala on the internet and reached the conclusion that our little quake was about degree 3. Last year on the 1st of April, I had made an April fool on my grandmother by telling her: "There was a little earthquake in nearby Delvina." Now this made-up story had become true, and not only in Delvina.

In spite of my nonchalance during the earthquake, things were no longer as they have been before. I had known that Albania is a seismic zone and had been more afraid of earthquakes than of rebels and mafiosi. Now every cell of mine had felt that earthquakes are possible in Saranda. Will there be a bigger one, and which stones will be left unturned?

The worst thing would be not to be in Saranda. I would prefer giving a first helping hand and then dashing off to rich Germany, to raise funds for reconstruction with my real-life accounts. Thinking of the Marquês de Pombal, who several centuries ago had said after the famous Lisbon quake: "Let's bury the dead and rebuild the town." I could have lost everything. For me, too, it would be hard, if not impossible, to start working again, buying a laptop and one dictionary after the other, without some outer help. But it would be possible, Kosova is getting up again as well.

"Saranda is build on a rocky ground", somebody reassured me, "therefore real earthquakes are improbable." Nevertheless I look at my Saranda now with even greater love and tenderness, because if it crumbles down in seismic shocks, I will regret every moment I did not love Saranda to the fullest. More love, more attentive and intensive love in the present moment - this is the only answer to transience, death and destruction.

Curiosity instead of fear, utmost curiosity, fascination, and thrill. And in the end, the commitment to more love.

How can I apply these insights of my cute, little earthquake to my financial problems?
Will I really be able to look at my situation with fascination, and with the detachment of an old soul, who knows that in reality it is a spiritual being having just a human experience?
Silke Blumbach
albtranslation@albtranslation.com
  **~**~  
Katie Comfort Korner
Volume 1780
Val Fits In

Tami is getting dressed for work.  She is almost ready, she just needs
to get her shoes on.

Tami to herself:  Did I close the patio door?

She puts one shoe on and hobbles to the patio door and closes it.  Back
to her bedroom and reaches for her other shoe.... gone!

Tami:  I could have sworn....  Oh well, I need to change shoes.

Tami goes to her spare room where she keeps shoes and gets another
pair and returns to her bed.  She has already changed outfits.  Her
missing shoe is on the bed.

Tami:  Darn it.  I thought it was gone.

Tami puts the missing shoe back with it's mate and returns to her bed
to find only one shoe there.

Tami:  Ack!  I am losing my mind.  What is going on here?

She changes back to her first outfit and takes her one shoe back and
retrieves her other pair and back to her bed and there on the bed is
the missing shoe.

Tami:  What is going on with me?  Well, I will put this shoe back and
then get dressed.

Tami puts her one shoe away and returns to find only one shoe on her
bed.

Tami is now shaking......

Tami:  I have paid the shoe gods this month.  What is going on?  I am
going to be late to work.

a giggle...

Tami:  Who is that?

giggle..

A black puppy, about 20 pounds dashes out from under her bed and runs
out heading for the patio door.

Tami:  I got you little one.  The door is closed.  Who are you?

Val, panting heavily:  My name is Valentina.  I live next door.

Tami:  With Katie?

Val:  Yes, how did you know?

Tami:  It figures.
The Herd in Guthrie
B.J. Cassady
Bjcassady@cox.net
**~**~
Poetry Corner
A Combat Soldiers Prayer
Gary Jacobson
This combat soldier's prayer,
Who has served his time in Hell,
Is may we learn the lessons of war well,
That we not doom future generations,
The same old tales of horror to tell,
To endure what in youth they see mistakenly as glory.
Oh God, do not let our children
Repeat the same old story.

Make it so that America's babies live to grow old
In this land of the free and the bold.
Help us throw off the shackles of hate that bind
And grow old in a life of a peaceful kind.

Teach us that there is no glory in war,
Nor honor there that brave men should not abhor.
Teach us instead, one for another our brothers to love.
Shower us with thine Celestial message from above,
That we plant seeds of peace evermore
And make war-no-more!
But if I should die on some far, far away battlefield
Know I answered the call
For a grand principle of freedom to yield.
My fervent prayer is that death
May not have been in vain
Fighting for peace and right for the world to attain.

My brothers, American roses standing by my side
On alien soil dying
In the summer of my youthful pride
All the leaves around me falling.

Now I'm lying here still, in sunshine and in shadow,
Longing to hear, "brother next door, I love you so."
For moldering in the soft ground below,
I feel you living and loving in the world above me
Standing tall because I fought that you might be...
Oh look ye down now,
And tell me you still think of me
Honor my red blood, spilt that others might stand free.

Tell me that I did not give my all for you in vain
That brothers and sisters do not look upon my sacrifice
With hateful,
Or even worse,
Uncaring disdain.

Do not forget me when my valley's hushed
And white with snow,
Grass growing green in the summer of my meadow
Help me see the peace I lived and died for grow.

Make my lonely grave richer,
Sweeter be...
Make this truly,
"The land of the free
And the home of the brave,"
I gave my life to save
That I might too, lie eternally,
Forever free...
Gary Jacobson
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