1 Chronicles, Chapter 28, Verse 20
David said to his son Solomon:
“Be strong and steadfast, and go to work; do not fear or be dismayed, for the LORD
God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or abandon you before you have
completed all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
We all long to hear this
from our fathers but the ultimate truth is He tells us this every day in the
quiet of our hearts. We merely reflect His grace when we pray. When we give Him
all our strength He makes us strong and steadfast; when we give Him our mind He
breaks our fears and gives us a purposeful mind; when we give Him our heart He
does not abandon us and when we give Him our soul, He gives us the vision to
see the work He has laid before us.
Mary, Queen of the Apostles[1]
Mission BBQ Armed Forces Day
buildup
US Coast Guard[2]
1.
Douglas Munro: The
ultimate hero of the Coast Guard is arguably Douglas Munro. As he commanded a
group of Higgins boats at the Battle of Guadalcanal, Munro coordinated the
evacuation of more than 500 Marines who came under heavy fire, using his boat
as a shield to draw fire. During the evacuation, he was fatally wounded, but
his last words were, “Did they get off?”
2. Thomas “Jimmy” Crotty: Lt.
Thomas “Jimmy” Crotty was the first Coast Guard prisoner of war since the War
of 1812 and served at the front lines of the Battle of Corregidor as the
Japanese took the Philippines. A 1934 graduate of the Coast Guard Academy where
he was an accomplished athlete, Crotty served as an skilled cutterman before
being attached to a Navy mine warfare unit. After several different positions in
the Pacific Theater, Crotty found himself attached the Marine Corps Fourth
Regiment, First Battalion, as the Japanese forces attacked the last American
stronghold. One eyewitness report says that Crotty supervised army personnel
manning a howitzer dug-in until the American surrender on May 6, 1942. Crotty
was captured by the Japanese and taken to Cabanatuan Prison, where he died of
diphtheria.
3. William Flores: On
January 28, 1980, the USCGC Blackthorn collided with a tanker in Tampa
Bay, Florida. Seaman Apprentice William Flores, just eighteen years old and a
year out of boot camp, stayed on board as the cutter sank, strapping the life
jacket locker open with his belt, giving his own life jacket to those struggling
in the water, and giving aid to those wounded on board. He was posthumously
awarded the Coast Guard’s highest non-combat award, the Coast Guard Medal.
4. Ida Lewis:
After her father had a stroke, Ida Lewis took over as the keeper of Lime
Rock Lighthouse, Rhode Island. Over her 39 year career, Lewis saved 18 lives.
She was one of the earliest women in the Lighthouse Service, which later was
combined with four other services to become the Coast Guard. Lime Rock Light has
since been renamed Ida Lewis Light, and a coastal buoy tender was named in her
honor.
5. Bernie Webber, Andy Fitzgerald, Ervin Maske, and Richard Livesey: The rescue of the crew of the SS
Pendleton in the icy waters offshore of Chatham, Cape Cod, Mass. had
been a legend told by generations of Coasties. Bernie Webber, Andy Fitzgerald,
Ervin Maske, and Richard Livesey climbed aboard a 36-foot-long motor lifeboat
and saved the lives of 32 sailors after their tanker split in half during a
storm in February 1952. For their heroism, the crew received the Gold
Lifesaving Medal and their heroic efforts were immortalized in the Disney
movie, The Finest Hours.
Fitness Friday
Recognizing that God the
Father created man on Friday the 6th day I propose in this blog to
have an entry that shares on how to recreate and renew yourself in strength;
mind, soul and heart.
Daily Devotions/Prayers
The Guardian
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