by Leroy Seat | Nov 19, 2013 | Opinion
Nov. 19, 1863. That was the date of the Gettysburg Address, the speech delivered by President Lincoln during the Civil War. That remarkable speech was given at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Penn., several months after the Union...
by Leroy Seat | Sep 25, 2013 | Opinion
The 370th anniversary of a battle you may never have heard took place on Friday, Sept. 20, which offered me a good excuse to write about a group you may never have heard of. There is some value in knowing about the First Battle of Newbury (fought on Sept. 20, 1643)...
by Leroy Seat | Aug 11, 2013 | Opinion
For a long time, I have been a supporter of the organization known as Food for the Hungry, which was founded in 1971 and has, for many years, been an international organization. Food for the Hungry/Japan was formed in 1981, and, for many years, Eisuke Kanda was the...
by Leroy Seat | Aug 6, 2013 | Opinion
Today is the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Six-year-old Keiji Nakazawa was on his way to school in Hiroshima when the bomb exploded at 8:15 on that hot August morning in 1945. Even though his father, older sister and younger brother all were...
by Leroy Seat | Jul 23, 2013 | Opinion
“There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.” These words of Psalm 46:4 are cited on page 291 of Will D. Campbell’s “The Glad River” (1982) and are apparently...
