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“Sound the loud timbrel o’er Egypt’s dark sea, Jehovah hath triumphed, his...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Today is the 156th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation made by Abraham Lincoln when the outcome of the rebellion of the Southern slave states...
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The Continuum of History and Memory: The Example of the American Civil War Today
Friends Of Padre Steve’s World, Barbara Tuchman wrote: “No one is so sure of his premises as the man who knows too little.” Our present situation in the United States proves that. No quote could...
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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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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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“Liberty for the Few – Slavery in Every Form for the Mass” Slavery, America’s...
circa 1830: A slave auction in America. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images) Friends of Padre Steve’s World, After the article I posted that I edited, and may some commentary late last night I am going to...
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They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains....
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It’s not Labor Day, but it might as well be. It is time to speak up for workers. For decades organized labor has been demonized by the descendants of people who died to...
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The Clash of the Ironclads: The Battle of Hampton Roads at 158 Years
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Yesterday and today mark the 157th anniversary of an event which changed naval warfare forever, the Battle of Hampton Roads. It was a watershed event which ended the...
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“I Don’t Take Responsibility at All: Trump Tells the Unsettling Truth about...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, President Abraham Lincoln noted: “In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” I...
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“We are All Americans” Reflection on Appomattox during The COVID-19 Pandemic
Joshua Chamberlain Receives the Surrender of John Gordon at Appomattox Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It has been a difficult, tiring, and yet extraordinary week. I have had little sleep, and did all...
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Viva México! Cinco De Mayo, the Battle of Puebla and its Importance to the...
The Battle of Puebla Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I just wanted to wish all my readers a happy Cinco de Mayo. This holiday, which is not a Federal holiday in Mexico, and has nothing to due with...
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Theirs is the Highest and Purest Democracy: Rabbi Roland Gittlesohn’s Eulogy...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World,, This is an article I wrote for our workforce at the Naval Shipyard where I am honored to serve at as the Chaplain. I officially retire on August 1st but have been...
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Juneteenth and the Anniversary of my 37th Year of Commissioned Service
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Just a brief note tonight. I have been preoccupied with our oldest Papillon, Minnie, who has been quite sick this week, we thought her Kidney disease had gotten worse,...
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The Road to Trump Began Here: Jackie Robinson and the 1964 GOP Convention
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Pardon the interruption, but I started a new article last night but was too tired to complete. I guess I will mull it over more and get around to posting it when I am...
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I Hate to Say I Told You So, But…My Article: “The Rebirth of American...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Well I have to say it, though I hate to say it, but well before Donald Trump was even the nominee of the Republican Party I wrote this article on August 23rd 2015. I am...
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The Lights are Going Out: The Orwellian Future if Trump Wins
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I go to bed tonight with a sense of foreboding for our country and the world and I cannot shake it. I feel darkness enveloping the United States as the President...
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“So the Old World Slipped Away Never to Return Again…”: A Look Back at my...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I wrote this article on 13 December 2019. It was pretty pessimistic even then without the Coronavirus 19 Pandemic which has killed over a quarter of a million Americans...
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I Hate Being Right: My Words from 13 December 2019 about 2020
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I wrote this on 13 December 2019. It was my prediction for 2020. Damn, I hate being right, except that I did not predict the Coronavirus 19 Pandemic. Apart from that...
View ArticleA New Year’s End of a Career and a Resolve to Speak the Truth and Fight the...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Marcus Aurelius wrote, “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly...
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“And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Today is the 157th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation made by Abraham Lincoln when the outcome of the rebellion of the Southern slave states...
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Resist the Continuing Threat of Terrorist Insurrection by President Trump and...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am deciding to repeat and amplify the warning of the FBI that Trump’s violent cult of supporters including heavily armed illegal militia groups, the Proud Boys, other...
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