Posts Tagged ‘President Carter’

A dyed-in-the-wool romantic

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Former President Harry Truman was a dyed-in-the-wool romantic. He pursued his wife, Bess, for many years before she agreed to marry him. He first asked her in 1911 and they were finally married in 1919.

But once he married her, Mr. Truman continued to romance his wife. When he was away from her he wrote love letters. When Bess Truman died in the early 1980’s, more than 1,200 letters from her husband were discovered in her home. Harry never stopped courting Bess. (H. Norman Wright, Romancing Your Marriage, 169, 170).

“Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed.” Prov. 27:5

–Mike Benson

Why did my son have to die in Iraq?

Friday, June 4th, 2010

A mother asked President…Bush
“Why did my son have to die in Iraq?”

A mother asked President…Clinton
“Why did my son have to die in Saudi Arabia?”

A mother asked President…Bush
“Why did my son have to die in Kuwait?”

Another mother asked President… Johnson
“Why did my son have to die in Vietnam?”

Another mother asked President… Truman
“Why did my son have to die in Korea?”

Another mother asked President…Roosevelt
“Why did my son have to die on Iwo Jima?”

Another mother asked President…Wilson
“Why did my son have to die on a battlefield on a field in France?”

Yet another mother asked President… Lincoln
“Why did my son have to die at Gettysburg?”

And yet another mother asked President… Washington
“Why did my son have to die on a frozen field near Valley Forge?”

Then long, long ago, a mother asked…
“Heavenly Father …
why did my Son have to die on a cross outside of Jerusalem?”

The answer is the same…
“So that others may have life and dwell in peace, happiness, and freedom.”

Does anyone know the original source for this piece?