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CWO4 Louis D. Miller (Ret)
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I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a
short and frenzied
outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a
lifetime
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I WATCHED THE FLAG PASS BY ONE
DAY,
IT FLUTTERED IN THE BREEZE.
A YOUNG MARINE SALUTED IT,
AND THEN HE STOOD AT EASE..
I LOOKED AT HIM IN UNIFORM
SO YOUNG, SO TALL, SO PROUD,
WITH HAIR CUT SQUARE AND EYES
ALERT
HE'D STAND OUT IN ANY CROWD.
I THOUGHT HOW MANY MEN LIKE HIM
HAD FALLEN THROUGH THE YEARS.
HOW MANY DIED ON FOREIGN SOIL
HOW MANY MOTHERS' TEARS?
HOW MANY PILOTS' PLANES SHOT
DOWN?
HOW MANY DIED AT SEA
HOW MANY
FOXHOLES WERE SOLDIERS' GRAVES?
NO, FREEDOM ISN'T FREE.
I HEARD THE SOUND OF TAPS ONE
NIGHT,
WHEN EVERYTHING WAS STILL,
I LISTENED TO THE BUGLER PLAY
AND FELT A SUDDEN CHILL.
I WONDERED JUST HOW MANY TIMES
THAT TAPS HAD MEANT "AMEN,"
WHEN A FLAG HAD DRAPED A
COFFIN.
OF A BROTHER OR A FRIEND.
I THOUGHT OF ALL THE CHILDREN,
OF THE MOTHERS AND THE WIVES,
OF FATHERS, SONS AND HUSBANDS
WITH INTERRUPTED LIVES.
I THOUGHT ABOUT A GRAVE YARD
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
OF
UNMARKED GRAVES IN ARLINGTON.
NO, FREEDOM ISN'T FREE.
My Home
Christmas Day 2005. Tons of Snow
WELCOME :COME
IN STAY AWHILE LOTS of
Goodies
Consider
your origins: you were not made to live as brutes,
but
to Follow virtue
and knowledge
The Miller
Bunch
I was in Love and had got into an
intellectual muddle
early on in life and never
managed to get out."
Pastor: Sam Hoard.
Author of "Truth Will Set You Free"
THE
TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE is an account of
the
second black Lutheran pastor to
graduate from the all
white, St. Louis,
Concordia Seminary in the late 1950's.
It is an interestingly told
story, with wit and humor as
opposed to bitterness and
sarcasm, of his efforts while
overcoming prejudice and
racism in becoming a U.S.
Army
chaplain, and while
serving as a Lutheran pastor, from the
40's throught the
80's. It incluldes the author's year
spent
with combat troops in
Vietnam and his arrests
with other
Lulteran pastors
in civil rights demonstrations in
NYC.
TO ORDER: Make
check payable to author
S.L.Hoard,
P.O. Box 550830,
Orlando, FL 32855 ($9.99 plus
$2.50
for s/h for each
book.)
The
latest book by Pastor Sam Hoard is an autobiographical
entitled THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE published by Concordia
Publishing House. It can be found in Religous Book Stores
across the country, also available from: SLH, PO Box 550830,
Orlando, FL 32855. Price $9.99 plus $2.50
s/h.
SUBJ: ERRORS FOUND IN BOOK
"T H E TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE"
FROM: SAMUEL L. HOARD,
AUTHOR
- 1.) Some persons have blamed me, on the basis of the
mis-statement found on
- Page 86 of my
-
book, of casting untrue charges on the
quality of the education that those of my genera-
-
tion received from very competent,
qualified, sincere, dedicated, concerned, (and some
-
superior in qualifications in their
fields) black teachers who saw to it that all whom they
-
taught were enabled to receive a quality
education. And this, in spite of because of
-
segregation, often having to utilize
inadequate, insufficient or second hand, but not
-
necessarily inferior equipment or
materials.
2.) This mis-statement came about as a
result of a white editor (who, though well
-
intentioned but who never having had the
“black experience,” and was of a different
-
generation from mine) who was editing a
book by a black author. It resulted in
-
a very demoralizing error in the editing
of my manuscript.
-
education in segregated St. Louis public
schools, I felt deeply concerned about this
-
issue.” HOW did this happen when earlier
in the manuscript (Page 13) I had stated
-
that as a result of the racially
segregated St. Louis public school system: “The white
- not allowed to attend schools with them and black
students were being mis-educated
- that they just must be inferior if they were not
allowed to attend schools along with
- the white students.” Note how in editing, the editor
shortened my original statement.
- But that is what editors are supposed to do. Change or
shorten the grammar but not
- change the meaning.
- In efforts to rush the production of the book so that
it would be completed in time
- to go on sale prior to the date of our church
body’s (the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod)
- Convention in St. Louis, July 10-15, 2004, I was
unable to make a final proof-reading
- of that section of the book which contained the
mis-statement. The questionable
- expression should have read more like the following:
“Having experienced a segre-
- - gated education in St. Louis public schools, I felt
deeply concerned about this issue.”
-
-
- Continue on Page 2
-
-
- Page -2-
- 4.) The blame does lie with me – although the
publisher was rushing to meet a
- a deadline– because I should have insisted on
personally proofing every section
- of my manuscript before it was okayed for final
printing.
- Another minor mistake: On Page 76 it is stated that,
“...I met the commanding officer
- of the 37th General Hospital Army Reserve
Unit in Jamaica, Long Island, NY.”
- It is correctly stated on Page 95: “I was the
Protestant chaplain for the US Army
- Reserve 307th General Hospital Unit of New
York City.”
- These are examples of errors which I should not have
allowed to have been published
- The truth of the matter is that as a result of, and in
spite of, our “Segregated Education”
- we had graduates who went on to colleges and
succeeded in entering the various professions
- and businesses, such as educators, doctors, lawyers,
engineers etc. Just a few examples of
- some who attained out-standing achievements in
their fields: Roscoe Robinson, who went
- straight to West Point from high school, rose up the
ranks to Brigadier Gen and. to
- GENERAL of U.S. Army; was at one time Commander of all
U.S. military forces in Japan,
- and later head of the SHAPE Command in Europe. Vincent
Reed became Superintendent of
- Schools in Washington, D.C Some who learned to
fly air planes in the “Tuskegee Experience”
- and became pilots, serving with the Tuskegee Airmen in
WW II: John Squires, Otis E. Finley,
- Jr., Chris Newman, and William Wyatt are some from St.
Louis segregated high schools.
- Charles Taylor later graduated from the U of Kansas,
became a Micro-Biologist and head
- of the department at the hospital in Cleveland where
he worked. Thomas Fox, who had
- owned two pharmacies and then his own Ford Automobile
Dealership in St. Louis County.
- These are just a very, very, few examples to dispute
the EDITED mis-statement that we,
- or I, had experienced an INFERIOR education in the St.
Louis segregated school system.
- NOTE: In the event additional copies of the books are
re-printed, the correction of this
- mis-statement will be made.
- Samuel L. Hoard .
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