Remembrance Day
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Adult fictionWar in the Wasteland
by Douglas Bond 273 pages / 2016 RATING: Gift “Second Lieutenant C.S. Lewis in the trenches of WWI” – if that doesn’t grab you, I…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Nov 9, 2024
Letters from war In remembrance of the many who fought for us… Ants build landmarks for navigation Ants have brains a quarter the size of…
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Book ReviewsNicky & Vera: a Quiet Hero of the Holocaust…
by Peter Sís 2021 / 64 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Nicholas Winston never set out to be a hero but he also knew what needed to be…
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Culture ClashesThe problem with pacifism
The 20th century was the bloodiest in history. It started badly with the 1914-1918 conflict, which was called “the war to end all wars.” People…
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Book ReviewsJourney Through the Night
by Anne De Vries 372 pages / 1951 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Christian writers these days, they just don’t know subtlety. They write miraculous stories where the…
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Remembrance DayOperation Manna
**** You can download or listen to the podcast version (6 minutes) here. It was a bad time to be Dutch. The winter of 1944-1945 was…
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Book excerptsPrayer and comfort in Sachsenhausen
This is the story of my paternal grandfather’s last year on earth. He was a man of unwavering faith despite suffering arrest, incarceration, indignity, illness,…
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Remembrance DayWar through the eyes of a child: Alice Kuik shares her memories of World War II
“The horror and sacrifices of those who endured a war must be recorded and remembered. If we fail to do so, we will soon take…
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Remembrance DayForgive me!
The waiting room was full. I pulled a number – 135. I just knew it would be a long wait. Next to me sat a…
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Book lists5 books to help us never forget
Next week will mark Remembrance Day, and to help us remember these men and women – many in uniform, and also many who were not –…
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Remembrance DayWhy we remember
My grandfather was active in the Dutch resistance movement against Nazism and you can read more about him in my article “Prayers and Comfort in Sachsenhausen.”…
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Adult biographiesThe Hiding Place
by Corrie Ten Boom 1971 / 225 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT This was such an encouraging story, and in so many ways. If you know only…
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Book excerptsLiving through World War II
This an excerpt from Gerda Vandenhaak’s “Geertje: War Seen through the Eyes of a Child as an Adult” ***** I am lining up for food. I…