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In 1984, the New York City area has hosted Fleet Week during the Memorial Day holiday. It’s the community’s way of showing appreciation to members of the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. In recent years, the event has welcomed over 6,000 members of the military. Fleet Week consists of all kinds of shows and events…
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It was a Christmas season that the 18-year-old Marine would rather not experience. Slogging through the mud in the drizzling, never-ending rain was beginning to wear on the enlisted man's spirit. Sleeping on the ground without a bath for months with a stubbly beard growing from not shaving in the winter cold was not his…
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To bring holiday cheer to U.S. military missing their families while deployed in Afghanistan, an 11-year-old Florida girl has mobilized an army of her own. Savannah Maddison Ogden of Weston, Fla., is the creator of “Savannah’s Soldiers,’’ a letter-writing campaign that has resulted in children sending an estimated 25,000 letters to soldiers serving in Afghanistan,…
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Who stole Christmas? Federal workers are pointing fingers at President Barack Obama. Budget constraints and the looming fiscal cliff appear to be the reason they will be working on Christmas Eve. A petition on the White House's We The People website calling for a day off has reached the threshold of 25,000 signatures needed for official response.…
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Bill Donohue comments as follows: The War on Christmas typically involves attempts by militant atheists and multicultural fanatics to kill Christmas. But a much softer, and less obvious, way of neutering Christmas is to simply ignore it. Take, for example, the way the leading divinity schools address Christmas. On the website of Harvard Divinity School,…
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Despite the sacred separation of church and state in American governmental tradition, religion is an everyday fact of life for most Americans and is reflected in the operations of its government.
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An atheist group has succeeded in forcing the Navy to scrap an annual live nativity presentation at a naval base in Bahrain. The group, identifying itself as the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, sent a letter to the inspector general complaining that the Christmas display violated the Constitution's supposed separation of church and state.
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America is "not a Christian nation," said Barack Obama, speaking to Muslims abroad in his first term. The consequence of his lowest-common-denominator pluralism is that those with the least belief get the greatest say over public life. Under this culture, the Christmas season grows more and more insipid, as evident in the "holiday card" Obama…
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Many churches invest a great deal of time and money into special holiday events that are designed to draw people into their services, but statistics show that Father's Day is one holiday in which church attendance is typically less than impressive. So is it a waste of time, money and energy for churches to host…
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