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Service Separations

[…]lain awake at nights thinking about. It’s the day you’ve finally reached as you tediously marked off the calendar one day at a time. Now it’s almost here–and suddenly you’re frightened. What if he’s changed? What if I’ve changed? What if we don’t have anything in common anymore? What if he doesn’t approve of the way I’ve handled the money, or taken care of the house, or disciplined the children? Then you start worrying because you’re worried! What’s the matter with you anyway, you wonder? Once when I was preparing to speak to a group of wives on the problems […]

Soldiers of Faith: Washington

[…]forbid profane cursing, swearing and drunkenness. And in like manner, he requires and expects of all officers and soldiers not engaged in actual duty, a punctual attendance of Divine services, to implore the blessing of Heaven upon the means used for our safety and defense. Within two weeks he issued orders for his soldiers and officers to observe the national fast day exactly as the Congress directed for the colonies. In the winter of 1775, he dealt with desertion not by execution, as the British did, but by implementing a biblical policy of thirty-nine lashes with subsequent drumming out of […]
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