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This weeks prize is the book “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck’s Favorite Facts and Stories” By Chuck Norris

Mitsuo Fuchida life changed one day shortly after the end of World War II as he got off the train in Tokyo’s Shibuya Station, and was handed a pamphlet entitled “I was a Prisoner of Japan” by an American. After reading about this American’s story and how the American volunteered for the Jimmy Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo because of the attack on Pearl Harbor to which he (Fuchida) was the leading pilot and the Air Squadron Commander. He became more interested and learned that the American ran out of fuel and was forced to parachute into Japanese held territory to which he became a prisoner for 40 months. He was also interested in how the American survived the experience with the help of the Bible and learned to forgive his captors. So, despite his traditional buddhist heritage he decided to read it for himself. He became a Christian and spent many years spreading the gospel to his people.  Name the American Doolittle raider, POW, and missionary to Japan that changed the life of Mitsuo Fuchida and many others.

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Thankful for Fading Freedoms

Turkeys of the year

Thanksgiving links between the internet and freedom

Thanksgiving and the True Story of Squanto

The First New England Thanksgiving

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President Obama at Gettysburg

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. -President Abraham Lincoln on November 19th, 1863

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Dying on the same day as President John F Kennedy (November 22^nd, 1963), this Christian author wrote several famous books including: “The Screwtape Letters” (Now Playing on “Focus on the Family Radio Theatre”), “Mere Christianity”, and is probably now more known for his fiction series “The Chronicles of Narnia”. At the age of ten his mother had died of cancer and by his teenage years he was an atheist. His pilgrimage back to God began in 1926 with a conversation with a friend he respected and later with some other friends including J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings). Over time he became more and more convinced that the events of the Bible had really happened.  Name this Christian author.

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It is the VETERAN, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the VETERAN, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the VETERAN, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to assemble. It is the VETERAN, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial. It is the VETERAN, not the politician, Who has given us the right to vote. It is the VETERAN, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion. It is the VETERAN, who salutes the Flag, and the veteran, who serves under the Flag.

ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.

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This weeks prize is the book “The Five Thousand Year Leap: 30 Year Anniversary Edition“

 Known as the “Pamphleteer of Jeffersonian Republicanism” this founding father was an active patriot, Anti-Federalist, faithful to his public duty, and always defending the  principles of the republic. Thomas Jefferson wrote of his work “An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States” should be required reading for every student of American Constitutional theory. He is quoted as saying the following: “A nation oppressed by taxes, can never be generous, benevolent or enlightened”. Name this founding father. 

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