A Friend In War

I have a friend in Iraq right now.
And his family hasn't heard from him
in a while, so they aren't sure if
he's ok. I just pray that right now he's
in an area that he can't have any
communication. He was sent over there
in January.

Here is a little song from Mark Schultz
It's called Letters From War

She walked to the mailbox
On that bright summer's day
Found a letter from her son
In a war, far away

He spoke of the weather
And friends that he'd made
Said, "I'd been thinking 'bout Dad
And the life that he had
That's why I'm here today
"Then at the end he said
"You are what I'm fighting for"
It was the first of his letters from war

She started writing

Chorus

You're good and you're brave
What aa father you'll be someday
Make it home, make it safe

She wrote every night as she prayed

And late in December
A day she'll not forget
Oh, her tears stained the paper
With every word that she read

It said, "I was up on a hill
I was out there alone
When the shots all rang out
And bombs were exploding
And that's when I saw him
He came back for me
Though he was captured
A man set me free
That man was your son
He asked me to write to you
I told him I would, oh I swore"
It was the last of the letters from war

And she prayed he was living
Kept on believing and wrote every night just to say

[chorus]

You are good and you're brave
What a father you'll be someday
Make it home, make it safe

Still, she kept writing each day

Then two years later
Autumn leaves all around
A car pulled in the driveway
And she fell to the ground
And out stepped a captain
Where her boy used to stand

He said, "Mom, I'm following orders
From all of your letters
And I've come home again
"He ran in to hold her
And dropped all his bags on the floor
Holding all of her letters from war

Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home


Even though Mark Schultz wrote this song for his grandma, cause she was
afraid that one of her sons wouldn't come back from war.
I believe it also is for today, with the families waiting for there Loves
ones to come back home.
Please pray for my friend Nathan.

Democracy or Republic

I have heard so many times that We ( meaning the United
States) is a Democracy, but I have to differ.
We are not a Democracy, but a Republic.
In the The Pledge we say " And to the REPUBLIC
for which it stands."
So if we were a democracy, we would say
" And to the DEMOCRACY for which it stands."

So I am putting on here a little of the difference between the
two, so here it is or they are:

A Democracy
The chief characteristic and distinguishing feature of a Democracy is: Rule by Omnipotent Majority. In a Democracy, The Individual, and any group of Individuals composing any Minority, have no protection against the unlimited power of The Majority. It is a case of Majority-over-Man.
Democracy, as a form of government, is utterly repugnant to--is the very antithesis of--the traditional American system: that of a Republic, and its underlying philosophy, as expressed in essence in the Declaration of Independence with primary emphasis upon the people’s forming their government so as to permit them to possess only "just powers" (limited powers) in order to make and keep secure the God-given, unalienable rights of each and every Individual and therefore of all groups of Individuals.

A Republic
A Republic, on the other hand, has a very different purpose and an entirely different form, or system, of government. Its purpose is to control The Majority strictly, as well as all others among the people, primarily to protect The Individual’s God-given, unalienable rights and therefore for the protection of the rights of The Minority, of all minorities, and the liberties of people in general. The definition of a Republic is: a constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution--adopted by the people and changeable (from its original meaning) by them only by its amendment--with its powers divided between three separate Branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Here the term "the people" means, of course, the electorate.

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.html