wounded American

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A Practical Joke That Killed

During combat, it's not always the enemy that's dangerous but the accidents and stupidity of fellow soliders.

Related Topics: Bob Nylen, Soldier, Soldiers, Vietnam, War, Vietnam War, Military, Army, Army Service

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'Nanking'

A nominee for Best Spiritual Documentary in the 2008 Beliefnet Film Awards

Related Topics: Entertainment, Movies, Nanking, War, moral duty, facit eorum claritatem, demonstraverunt lectores legere, ullamcorper suscipit lobortis, vulputate velit esse, blandit praesent luptatum, Film, Chinese capital city

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The Night God Came to Dinner

During wartime, two groups of enemy soldiers arrived at the same house. Then a miracle happened.

Related Topics: Inspiration, Chicken Soup For The Soul, Soldier, German soldiers, American soldiers, fritz, wounded American, medical student, Fritz Vincken, Mother, soldiers shook, strangers kindness

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'I Learned What It Means to
Have Faith'

In this 1945 letter, an American soldier liberated from a German POW camp, tells his family what kept him going.

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U.S. Missionary Dies in Philippines Raid

Wife wounded but rescued; Filipina hostage also killed.

Related Topics: News, philippine, Philippine officers, Filipino nurse, Family, rescue operation, Military, night vision, al Qaida terrorism network, Vision, hospital staff

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'Flags of Our Fathers' & the Way We War

Clint Eastwood grapples with courage and myth making in this movie about the famous WWII photo and the bloody truth behind it.

Related Topics: Entertainment, Movies, Memorial Day, Veteran, Veterans, Veterans Day, Soldier, Soldiers, War, Movie, Bill, surviving flag raisers, real heroes, Photo, Navy corpsman, inauthentic war movies, funeral home director, fathers story

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Swami Uptown Archive: March 2005

Jesse Kornbluth's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics.

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Israel & Lebanon Crisis: How to Help

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Healing Troubled Kids

A woman once held captive in a Japanese prison camp finds meaning in helping incarcerated youth.

Related Topics: Inspiration, Students, Children, loving teachers, abnormal situation, Teacher, Mary Previte, camp finds meaning, Prison, troubled inner city school, dinner party