Honoring our Veterans 2015
Fighting military suicides
Peer Counseling
Veterans and PTSD
Peer Counseling
Veterans and PTSD
There will be over 25,000 coming home with the promise of new lives yet carrying the old scars from their deployment.
Pray for their healing
Pray for their families
Pray that our Veterans reach their dreams
Pray for their healing
Pray for their families
Pray that our Veterans reach their dreams
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UCLA, Operation Mend Help Heal Scars Of War
MSNBC Morning Joe: Paul Rieckhoff and Operation Mend
MSNBC Morning Joe: Paul Rieckhoff and Operation Mend
A partnership between UCLA Health System, Brooke Army Medical Center and VA-Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System is helping servicemen and women wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus far, 52 combat veterans have been treated at UCLA.
It takes a team to rebuild lives: UCLA staff gives back to honor wounded soldiers
It takes a team to rebuild lives: UCLA staff gives back to honor wounded soldiers
Veterans Crisis Line
Veterans Crisis Line Seeks To Help Those Struggling With Civilian Life, Unemployment, Post-Combat Stress
1-800-273-TALK (8255) or via text to 838255
Veterans Crisis Line Seeks To Help Those Struggling With Civilian Life, Unemployment, Post-Combat Stress
1-800-273-TALK (8255) or via text to 838255
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Assessment and Treatment
GOD KNOWS HIM (a true story from the Korean War)
Although it took place fifty-nine years ago, I remember the baptism of a soldier near the front lines in the Korean War as it if happened yesterday.
It was in the fall of 1952, during the Korean War. I was the Chaplain for the 13th Engineer Combat Battalion, in the 7th Infantry Division.
A soldier, a member of one of the regiments of the division, sent word that he would like to be baptized into the Christian faith. His family and friends at home were faithful members of the Lutheran Church and he also wished to join with them. He asked for materials to read and study prior to being baptized. He wished to learn as much as possible about the Christian faith before being baptized.
He asked that his baptism take place near his unit so that he could bring two friends as witnesses. At the appointed hour we met near a small stream in a wooded area out of sight of the front lines. The young man’s helmet substituted as the baptismal font. One of his friends dipped water from the stream. In place of the usual congregation being present, my jeep driver and the two friends were the witnesses. They signed the certificate of baptism.
By this brief ceremony, here beside a stream of water, hidden by shrubbery and trees from the enemy, a young soldier experienced his spiritual birth. He expressed his thanks for God’s grace and love.
I still have a picture of the soldier, but not his name or address. I never saw him again. But God knows him, his name and serial number.
And so, by a stream, in the Korean War, where men were bleeding and dying – hidden in this wooded place, God promised a young soldier, by water and the Word: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Chaplain Earl C. Kettler, United States Army, retired
Although it took place fifty-nine years ago, I remember the baptism of a soldier near the front lines in the Korean War as it if happened yesterday.
It was in the fall of 1952, during the Korean War. I was the Chaplain for the 13th Engineer Combat Battalion, in the 7th Infantry Division.
A soldier, a member of one of the regiments of the division, sent word that he would like to be baptized into the Christian faith. His family and friends at home were faithful members of the Lutheran Church and he also wished to join with them. He asked for materials to read and study prior to being baptized. He wished to learn as much as possible about the Christian faith before being baptized.
He asked that his baptism take place near his unit so that he could bring two friends as witnesses. At the appointed hour we met near a small stream in a wooded area out of sight of the front lines. The young man’s helmet substituted as the baptismal font. One of his friends dipped water from the stream. In place of the usual congregation being present, my jeep driver and the two friends were the witnesses. They signed the certificate of baptism.
By this brief ceremony, here beside a stream of water, hidden by shrubbery and trees from the enemy, a young soldier experienced his spiritual birth. He expressed his thanks for God’s grace and love.
I still have a picture of the soldier, but not his name or address. I never saw him again. But God knows him, his name and serial number.
And so, by a stream, in the Korean War, where men were bleeding and dying – hidden in this wooded place, God promised a young soldier, by water and the Word: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Chaplain Earl C. Kettler, United States Army, retired
Eternal Flame – Arlington Cemetery
Kennedy Eternal Flame –
Arlington Cemetery
John F. Kennedy May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." John F. Kennedy
MUSIC: AMAZING GRACE (use play tab below)
≈ Our faith
develops ≈
≈ Learning to love the other ≈
≈ That love will transform ≈
Thomastwo - Haiku inspired by Thomas Merton
≈ Learning to love the other ≈
≈ That love will transform ≈
Thomastwo - Haiku inspired by Thomas Merton
