News Item: Iraq's Doctors

[Robert Smith]

Thank you. 

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The address that set forth the Thanksgiving Holiday as a national holiday in
the US;  I am not even close to being what one would call PC, but just the
same, this is not meant to offend the agnostics and atheists, but sent for
your consideration:



It is the duty of nations as well as of men to owe their dependence upon the
overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble
sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and
pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth,  announced in the Holy
Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose
God is the Lord.  We know that by his divine law,  nations,  like
individuals,  are subject to punishments and chastisements in this world.
May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now
desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our
presumptuous sins; to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole
people?

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been
preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in
numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has grown.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which
preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and
we have vainly imagined,  in the deceitfulness of our hearts,  that all
these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self-sufficient to feel
the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the
God that made us.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently,
and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole
of the American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every
pad of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are
sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of
November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent  Father who
dwelleth in the Heavens.

  -President Abraham Lincoln
  16th president of the USA



>>> "Bjorn, Pret" <pbjorn at emh.org> 11/22/2006 12:26 PM >>>
I hesitate to send this, as it is as inherently political as it is
informative.  

Foremost, I hope that we'll simply keep our colleagues and their patients in
our thoughts and prayers.  Americans celebrating their Thanksgiving holiday
might further reflect on our good fortune, and the ramifications of our
global stewardship.

Shortcut to:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061122/ap_on_he_me/iraq_s_doctors_1 

All best,

Pret Bjorn, RN
Bangor, Maine USA

 <<iraq_s_doctors_1.url>> 

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