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US Marines in Kuwait; 12/02.
(Enlarged flyer version w/"Prayer" Poem above)


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I want to comment on one of the videos that is embedded in this browser section
of tributes to our country and troops. While it is objectionable and without
question has been planted in these honorable videos by one of our enemies, I feel
it is important to keep it here to show all of us the type of human beings
we are up against in this war on terror. Our troops are under attack
in this video and are praying to God to rescue them. For the terrorists,
their perspective is that our troops are cowards for praying to God.
Courageous men pray to God. Courageous men are not without fear, but
the fact that they are facing that fear and accepting that the God of all mankind
is there with them is what makes them courageous.

Cowards are those who blow up innocent children and adults along with themselves.
Cowards go forward and willingly take innocent lives to further their
corrupt and evil agendas. Cowards have succumbed to the evil one
and have been seduced by their own demonic and egotistical agendas.
Cowards are the terrorists and terrorist-supported nations who we fight in this war on terror.
Make no mistake about it, terrorists are cowards.

God Bless America and all nations who are courageous enough to stand up to the cowards of terror.








"Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall."
Psalm 55:22

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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.....The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

Helen Keller



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"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father."

John 15:22-24

May 29, 2005

Let us not forget the meaning and purpose of Memorial Day. It is not just a holiday from work and school. It is a memorial of respect to all those who have served and most importantly, sacrificed their lives for our country. Please thank a veteran or active duty serviceperson today and let them know you appreciate them and all they have done and are doing to serve YOU. To my beloved veteran son, Jason, and his friends who have served in the US Marine Corps, THANK YOU. God Bless All Those Who Serve America.

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THE TOLL

God, please relieve me of my misery, I have grown so tired of this war.
I don�t know how to get the strength to continue as before.

It seems the harder we try to get ahead, the less we have to gain.
Please, God, help us know that what we do is not in vain.

We ask only that You be with us and guide us evermore.
The enemy of truth and peace seems always waiting at the door.

Condemnation comes so easy from those who give no sacrifice.
Please silence those who are unwilling to do their part or pay their price.

I know there have been many other countrymen who have cried out to you at night.
History is full of those who have taken up arms to lead a noble fight.

This enemy is so horrible that they kill babies, then run and hide.
They send their own children to their death with bombs attached to their side.

How can anyone be ambivalent about the task that is at hand?
God, please show all our countrymen what we all must understand.

That this war that we call terror, must be fought by one and all.
We must help each other cope and be united, strong, and tall.

Debbie-Kaye Drake 10/22/04

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THE TEST OF TIME

Will I forget these trying days, the uncertainty and hollow ways...........that others seem to pass for truth. How will I remember these days of my youth.

Will I reach my potential or lie half-broken, beneath the shroud of words unspoken.
Will I seek the honor of my ancestry, or flee from the responsibility.

Shall I walk with head high, or with shoulders hunched forlorn.
Will others look to me for guidance, or look at me with scorn.

Will the proffer of peace serve as a means to end the war,
Or will it just release the horrors all the more.

Have so many gone before only to be left in history.
Is the truth for which we strive, rife with problematic mystery.

Can I face the image in the mirror and know I must go forward,
Even though the duty of the day is one viewed untoward.

Will the foundation be shaken, will we find we�ve been forsaken.
When I return from one more tour, will I find an open door.

For, when years have passed, and my days grow dim, will I be proud of the time I've offered Him. Will I stand tall, and say I did my best. Will I be able to lay my head to rest......."

09/24/04 Debbie-Kaye Drake

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"THE GRACIOUS HAND OF OUR GOD IS ON EVERYONE WHO LOOKS TO HIM, BUT HIS GREAT ANGER IS AGAINST ALL WHO FORSAKE HIM. SO WE FASTED AND PETITIONED OUR GOD ABOUT THIS, AND HE ANSWERED OUR PRAYER."

Ezra 8:22, 23

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NO ONE WANTS WAR - - LEAST OF ALL THOSE
WHO MUST STAND ON THE FRONTLINES!

HOWEVER,
IF YOU DON'T STAND FOR SOMETHING,
YOU'LL FALL FOR ANYTHING

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John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life."

GERMAN:
(Denn also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, da er seinen eingebornen Sohn gab, auf da alle, die an ihn glauben, nicht verloren werden, sondern das ewige Leben haben.)

FRENCH:
(Car Dieu a tant aime le monde qu'il a donne son Fils unique, afin que quiconque croit en lui ne perisse point, mais qu'il ait la vie eternelle.)

POLISH:
(Poniewaz Bog tak swiat kochal, ze dal swego syna jedynego, aby kto wierzy w Niego nie zginal, lecz zyl wiecznie.)

SPANISH:
(Porque de tal manera amo Dios al mundo, que ha dado a su Hijo unigenito, para que todo aquel aue en el cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna.)

SWEDISH:
(Ty sa alskade Gud varlden, att han utgav sin enfodde Son, pa det att var och en som tror pa honom skall icke forgas, utan hava evigt liv.)

ITALIAN:
(Poiche Iddio ha tanto amato il mondo, che ha dato il suo unigenito Figliuolo, affinche chiunque crede in lui non perisca, ma abbia vita eterna.)

Accept these words as truth and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart and profess it with your mouth, and you will be saved!

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"JUST THE FACTS"....

Only about 1.4 million Americans, out of a population of 280 million, are currently serving in the U.S. military. That works out to just 1 in 200 Americans carrying the military burden for all of us. In World War II, an astonishing 1 in every 12 Americans was serving in uniform. In 1950, when the Korean War started, the figure was about 1 in 100. In the Cold War and the Vietnam War, it stayed steady at about 1 in 75, but by the Persian Gulf War, it was down to about 1 in 120. And now, after decades of reductions in the ranks and a growing population, it's just 1 in 200. The bottom line is that never in recent history have so many Americans been defended by so few.

Source: Org. Co. Register



CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 1ST MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE AT CAMP PENDLETON, CALIFORNIA FOR RECENTLY RECEIVING THE PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION FOR ACTIONS IN OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM FROM MARCH 21 TO APRIL 24, 2003. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION HAS BEEN GIVEN SINCE THE VIETNAM WAR OVER 30 YEARS AGO. ALSO, THE 1ST MEF'S INTEL BATTALION WAS THE FIRST EVER INTELLIGENCE BATTALION DEPLOYED TO WAR. SOME OF THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE 1ST MEF WILL BE ASKED TO RETURN TO IRAQ NEXT YEAR TO SERVE A SECOND TOUR OF DUTY. MAY GOD BLESS AND KEEP THEM ALL. WE LOVE YOU ALL AND APPRECIATE YOUR PERSONAL SACRIFICES AND DEVOTION TO YOUR COUNTRY.

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God Bless You, God Bless Our Troops, and God Bless America and our Coalition Partners!
Debbie-Kaye Drake
California, USA
December 11, 2007 (updated)

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January-2005
Congratulations on your promotion,
Sargeant Jason K. Drake, USMC Reserves

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LOOK TO GOD AND PRAY

If things don't seem to go your way,
just look to God and pray.
And if you've troubles through the day,
just look to God and pray.
He's always there to answer you,
to give you help in all you do.
So, if your day is going wrong,
just look to Him with your heart's song.
You'll find an answer to your prayer.
Just look to Him, He's always there.

Debbie-Kaye Drake

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"EMBRACE THIS GOD-LIFE. REALLY EMBRACE IT, AND NOTHING WILL BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU....THAT'S WHY I URGE YOU TO PRAY FOR ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, RANGING FROM SMALL TO LARGE. INCLUDE EVERYTHING AS YOU EMBRACE THIS GOD-LIFE, AND YOU'LL GET GOD'S EVERYTHING." MARK 11:22-24

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I love an eloquent speaker. There has never been,
in my opinion, a more eloquent speaker than our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ. The following are some of the more
meaningful words spoken by some of our leaders of present
and past. Sometimes eloquence comes unexpectedly and from the unlikely. Our current President, George W. Bush, has been criticized for his perceived lack of eloquence. Nevertheless, he has a very persuasive way of piquing our interest and I find his style very sincere. Sometimes eloquence is not found in the flowery words of the high intellect, but in the humble words
of the average man.
Debbie-Kaye Drake, October 20, 2003

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"I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in
whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as
Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with His providence and our riper years with His wisdom and power, and to whose goodness I ask you to join in supplications with me that He will so enlighten the minds of your servants, guide their councils, and prosper their measures that whatsoever they do shall result in your good, and shall secure to you the peace, friendship, and approbation of all nations."

Thomas Jefferson

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"I just thought it was the right thing to do."

Marx Lenten Litchfield, my father (When asked
why he joined the United States Army in 1941
and was sent to the European Theater
to fight the evil of Nazism during WWII.)

Debbie-Kaye Drake

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"I don't want to be average. I want to do
something that matters."

Jason K. Drake, my son (When asked why he
wanted to join the United States Marine Corps in 2000.)

Debbie-Kaye Drake

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"I am sure that never was a people, who
had more reason to acknowledge a Divine
interposition in their affairs, than
those of the United States; and I
should be pained to believe that
they have forgotten that agency, which
was so often manifested during our
Revolution, or that they failed to consider
the omnipotence of that God
who is alone able to protect them."

President George Washington

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The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from
the teachings of Christ and the
lessons of the prophets. To read
the Bible for these fundamentals is a
necessity of American life.

--Herbert Hoover

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"...We here in America, hold in our hands
the hope of the world, the fate of the years;
and shame and disgrace will be ours, if in
our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed,
if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men."

President Theodore Roosevelt

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"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

CHARLES SPURGEON

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"The fundamental basis of this nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul."

President Harry Truman

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"The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty...The rights of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by
reading and carefully studying the institution
of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly
written and promulgated in the New Testament."

Samuel Adams, "The Father of the American Revolution"

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"Let every nation know; whether it wishes
us well or ill, that we shall pay any price,
bear any burden, meet any hardship, support
any friend, oppose any foe to assure the
survival and success of liberty."

"The energy, the faith, the devotion which
we bring to this endeavor will light our country
and all who serve it; and the glow from this
fire can truly light the world."

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what
your country can do for you, ask what you can
do for your country. My fellow citizens of
the world, ask not what America will do for
you, what together we can do for the
freedom of man."

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
Inaugural Address

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"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 ever grown.

But, we have forgotten God. We have
forgotten the gracious hand which
preserved us in peace and multiplied and
strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined
in the deceitfulness of our hearts,
that all these things 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."

President Abraham Lincoln

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"Freedom is not the United States' gift to the world, but God's gift to humanity."

President George W. Bush

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"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

Dr. Joyce Brothers

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"In the swift rush of great events, we find
ourselves groping to know the full sense and meaning of these times in which we live. In our quest of understanding, we beseech God's guidance. We summon all our knowledge of the past and we scan all signs of the future. We bring all our wit and all our will to meet the question:
How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward the light? Are we nearing
the light--a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?"

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The spirit of Liberty is not, as multitudes
imagine, a jealousy of our own particular
rights, but a respect for the rights of others,
and an unwillingness that any one whether
high or low, should be wronged
or trampled underfoot."

William Ellery Channing

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