I feel like I'm trapped in a bottle. My exuberance, my ideas, my creativity are restrained, and the harder they try to get out, the more they're held down. I can't let them out because then I won't be doing the things that I am supposed to be doing, like my schoolwork. And yet, I am somehow unable to channel them into my schoolwork even when the schoolwork interests me.
Why am I afraid of letting myself out? Is it because I'm afraid people won't like who I am? Is it because I'm afraid that I won't do the things I am supposed to?
There are elementary schoolchildren in Earl’s neighborhood who need to hear some of his stories. They should hear about the time when Earl [an African American] was on Okinawa, “the rock” [during World War II].
ReplyDeleteHe complained about segregation in the [American] Army and was thrown in the stockade [army prison] for insubordination. One of his friends slipped out of the barracks at night and low-crawled to the fence line outside Earl’s cell. His friend told Earl that he had overheard the commanding officer say that they were going to find a way to provoke Earl when he was on work detail, make Earl attack one of the guards, and then they would shoot him [dead]. They said: “That man will not leave the rock alive.”
They also need to hear Earl tell his story about the Jewish doctor on the [USA Army] base who did not want to see anyone punished on account of prejudice. The doctor risked his own career, got Earl off the rock [Okinawa], and saved Earl’s life. He also – to hear Earl tell it – changed Earl’s own prejudice view of people who were Jewish.
SOURCE: Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens (Navy SEAL), year 2015 CE, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishers.
SOURCE: Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life (chapter 6, page 67) by Eric Greitens (Navy SEAL), year 2015 CE, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishers.
Please help SUE the terrorists in court:
www.IsraelLawCenter.org
www.causematch.com/projects/shurat-hadin-givingtuesday/
Shurat HaDin’s victory for Israel on FaceBook:
www.algemeiner.com/2016/01/08/facebook-finally-caves-on-anti-israel-hate-pages/
Thank you!
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Shabbat Praised by Famous Non-Jewish Celebrity:
ReplyDeletewww.algemeiner.com/2016/05/05/non-jewish-pop-singer-katy-perry-says-she-wishes-there-were-a-weekly-worldwide-shabbat-to-disconnect-from-social-media/
Pop superstar Katy Perry recently said:
“I wish there was a thing like Shabbat that wasn’t particularly religious-based, that was kind of a worldwide day where we’re not on our phones — like a movement…”