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Has Honor Now Become Old Fashioned and Obsolete in America?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend Nathan Hale was a young man of high honor and just 21 years of age when he volunteered for the extremely dangerous job of intelligence gathering for the Continental Army during the American Revolution War. He was later captured by the British and condemned to death by hanging. When asked if he had any last words, he replied, “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” Hale is honored as one of America’s great heroes; in 1985, he…
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Overcoming the Hate in Your Life
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs – Email this article to a friend “Kim Kardashian Joins Drop Dead Diva to Romance Fred” is the title of an article I just read. I have never watched one of the Kardashian shows, and I know little about the family, but the comments that followed the article were clues that lots of people hate Kim and the show. I only read the first two pages of comments, which were 40 out of the 3,289 posted, and they were almost without exception extremely negative in terms of hate. I am…
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Live, Death is Already on the Way!
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs – e-Mail this article to a friend It was Oliver Wendell Homes Sr. that said, “Death tugs at my ear and says, ’Live. I am coming.” Yesterday, here in Florida, was a tragic reminder of how suddenly death can come. Only a few miles from where I am staying, at least 10 people were killed, and 18 were hospitalized in a horrendous Sunday morning highway pileup on I-75 near Gainesville, Florida. I recently traveled that stretch of highway little realizing that 10 people would soon die an agonizing death in…