The Rev. René Monette (Opinion from Houma Today (Louisiana)) November 4, 2011
Rev. Monette is great in this short opinion piece detailing the several storms of confusion that we are confronted with.On Sept. 18, 2003, Hurricane Isabel slammed into the East Coast, lashing North Carolina and Virginia. It left 16 dead and cut power to 6 million people. When the hurricane hit, the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown were given permission to seek shelter since the winds and rain were more than 95 miles an hour. The guards there at the time refused and continued to stand guard.
Regardless of the storm, they refused to be the only guards in history to depart their post at the Tomb of the Unknown. Someone once said of these guards at Arlington National Cemetery, “If these men can stand guard over the dead, how much more important is it that I stand guard over the living: my wife and my children?”
Alma 46:12-13 "And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it—In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children—and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.
ReplyDelete...and he called it the title of liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren, so long as there should a band of Christians remain to possess the land—"
(from The Book of Mormon--Another Testament of Jesus Christ)