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Thu Nov 23 16:38:57 GMT 2006

Dear Ron,

what was your point, that it may be bad now but it was just as bad under Saddam or that we should all fall to our knees and pray as Lincoln suggested so that god will make the mess better for us?

LOL 

Tom

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> From: 	trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org[SMTP:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] on behalf of Ronald Gross[SMTP:Rgross at harthosp.org]
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> Sent: 	quinta-feira, 23 de novembro de 2006 13:47
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> Subject: 	Re: News Item: Iraq's Doctors
> 
> 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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