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Linda Bower

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  1. Kazemi was sounding so familiar to me, so I wracked my brain to figure out why.  It turns out our community sponsored some Iranian college students for a weekend and Nazameddin Kazemi was one of them.  He was kind of sweet on me, but I didn't want to date someone who didn't share my faith. This was some 45 years ago, before the Persian king was overthrown.  I wondered if he might be some relation to this Al Kazemi, but after googling it, it turns out Kazemi is a pretty common name over there.

     

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  2. I met a lady who was a school girl when the bomb dropped in Nagasaki Japan.  On the day it was dropped she had to go to the doctor, but was on her way to the munition plant where her classmates worked in the afternoon when she saw the bomb dropping  .In school, they were instructed to put their thumbs in their ears, cover their eyes with their fingers and drop to the ground if they should see a bomb, so she did.  She was a mile from ground zero.  Everyone one around her was vaporized. Her back was seared, but she survived, unlike her classmates.

    She had to have numerous surgeries for the wounds the radiation gave her, but she later married an American and moved to Indiana.  When I met her she was a grandmother.  She claimed every citizen of Japan was given a suicide pill that they were to take rather than Japan surrender. If it were not for the bombs dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima she feared the order would have been given to take the pills.

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  3. I've been in this for 10 years now and mostly lurk. What has struck me as positive lately is the push to free themselves from the  Iran influence with (of course) some help from the USA.  Many have commented that much of the corruption stems from them, and because of that, the unwillingness of Iran to change Iraq's monetary circumstances.  For these past ten years, I've noticed the constant reference to Iran's role in Iraq but didn't understand how deep it was and how it affected things.  So for my part,  I'm rooting for the protesters, and hoping the USA is invested enough in showing Iran who's who, that it pushes this  to the event that we are all hoping for.  I'm still hopeful!!!

     

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  4. I was in Israel last year.  My husband and I walked down the Mount of Olives to the gates of the Old city of Jerusalem.  While we were walking we were exploring what was there.  We happened upon an old sign pointing down a narrow walkway that led to a cave dug out of the rock.  We entered the cave and discovered it was where the last 3 prophets of the Bible were buried.  Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.  They wanted to be buried there on the Mount of Olives because Zechariah had prophesied That there would be a resurrection there.  So not only were they buried there and their attendants, but thousands upon thousands of other people are buried all the way down the mount of olives and have been for thousands of years to present, all because they believe what Zechariah prophesied.  Just because things that were prophesied about thousands of years ago have not happened yet, it does not mean it won't happen,  in fact it will definitely happen at some place in time, because God is the author of those thoughts he gave Zechariah.

     

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  5. I've been to Russia four times.  People there want to tell their story.  They would tell of being forcefully moved from Poland to the Ural mountains to work the coal mines.  They would tell about their father disappearing one day and never seen again for objecting.  One lady would spit on the ground every time she referred to Stalin.  very sad.

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  6. More people were killed under Stalin in the Soviet Union than what were killed by Germans in the concentration camps .It was

    against their own people. As many as 18,000,000 died in the Gulag camps alone.  Mostly it was because they objected to communism.

    They would load them into cattle cars as many as they could fit where there was no room to do anything but stand.  It took 10 days to reach Vladivostok.  If they survived that they would load them onto a ship and take them north to Magadon, where they would march them into the mountains to mine the gold.  They say every ounce of gold represented a human life.  They used human bones to protect the perma frost when they built a road from Magadon to Yakutsk.   Going to the gulag was a death sentence. communism takes away your freedom to think, to work in a meaningful job, your freedom to worship.  There is always a sense of being watched.  Why would anyone choose to live this way?

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  7. My 93 year old uncle was flying home with his wife  from Tampa to Chicago this past week and happened to be wearing a cap that said WWII vet on it.  The flight attendant noticed it and asked some key questions of my cousin who was also on the flight.  Before landing the flight attendant announced that the flight was honored by having a WWII hero on board.  The other passengers went wild with applause and cheering. It made my uncle so proud he had served his country in that way.

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