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Silence Buys You Nothing: The Boogeymen Will Eventually Come After You Too
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Last year on the I spoke on the last day of Passover at Norfolk’s Temple Israel on the topic of bearing witness to the Holocaust even as its last survivors pass away...
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The Eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2020
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Tomorrow is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It coincides with the date that the date that the Auschwitz Concentration Camp was liberated by the 100th Division...
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2020, the Liberation of Auschwitz at...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Seventy-five years ago today the Red Army’s 100th Division liberated the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. There were somewhere between 7000 and 9000 prisoners left in the...
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“Don’t Be Silly, Space Shuttles Don’t Explode” Challenger at 34 Years
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It is still so hard to believe that thirty-four years ago we were stunned to see the Space Shuttle Challenger blow up shortly after launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida....
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The Antidote to Theocracy and Authoritarian Dictatorship Done in the Name of...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Two hundred and thirty four years ago, in the year 1786, the the legislature of the Commonwealth Of Virginia ratified a law written by Thomas Jefferson. It was the...
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What You Leave Behind: Thoughts on Leaving Iraq 12 Years Ago and Star Trek...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Tonight, Judy and I finished a several month marathon of Star Trek Deep Space Nine. The final episode was titled What You Leave Behind. It so happens that today is the...
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The Legacy and Warning of Field Marschal Von Paulus at Stalingrad: Even...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Seventy-seven years ago today the commander of the encircled German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus left his command bunker and surrendered the...
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“The Day of Reckoning Has Come” Stalingrad and the White Rose: The Sixth...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Shortly after the disaster at Stalingrad, the White Rose Resistance issued what would be their last pamphlet. In disturbing it, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans would...
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Fighting For Emancipation and Equality: The Black Soldiers of the Civil War
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, February is Black History Month, it’s something that no American of any race, color, or creed should forget. African Americans, the decendants of slaves and slaves...
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Military Civil Rights Pioneers, Buffalo Soldier & the Red Tail: Benjamin O....
Brigadier General Benjamin O Davis in France 1944 Friends of Padre Steve’s World, In his I Have a Dream speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave all of us a vision of what can and in spite of what I see...
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Intellectual, Political, and Theological Integrity in the Time of the Iowa...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Just a quick note for today as it will be an eventful week; the Iowa Caucuses on Monday, the State of the Union Address on Tuesday, and the acquittal without an actual...
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“They’re right, it is a long way to Tipperary” Coming Home From Iraq 12 Years...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today I am a bit tired and going to post something that basically is a rerun with a few edits. Twelve years ago today I stepped off a plane with the man who had been my...
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One Republican Senator of Moral Courage and Clarity: Mitt Romney and Impeachment
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, The foreordained impeachment trial of President Trump is over. Fifty-Two GOP Senators prostrated themselves on the altar of Trump, primarily because they were afraid of...
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Franklin Roosevelt’s SOTU of 1941: The Four Freedoms
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, On January 6th 1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his State of the Union Message to Congress and the nation. I spent the time to both both read it and...
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Trump’s National Prayer Breakfast: Compromised Church and Echoes of the Third...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, A few months back I began to write about the Nuremberg Trials and the opening statement of the American Chief Prosecutor, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. The...
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Somebody Had to Make a Start: Sophie Scholl, the White Rose, and Modern...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have written about Sophie Scholl and the White Rose resistance against Hitler before, in fact I will continue to do so because the United States is heading down the...
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“I Was Sure That I Could Not Afford to Fail” Admiral Samuel Gravely and the...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today I remember the service of Vice Admiral Samuel Gravely, a pioneer in the desegregation of the Navy and one of the first Black Naval Officers, not to mention the...
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“Mislead by a Blind Sense of Duty” Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein and His...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I’m pullings something out of my archives today. It’s actually a paper I wrote for one of my Masters Degree Classes back in 2009 that I decided to post on the site....
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When the President Calls Military Officers Traitors: Trump, LTC Vindman, and...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Yesterday, the Commander in Chief, after removing Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from his post in the National Security Council, and having him escorted out of the...
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Otherwise Good People Who Serve Evil Regimes: The Case of Friedrich...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, In the post impeachment era of President Trump I find myself asking hard questions about those in the Justice Department, the White House Counsel’s Office, lawyers...
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