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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1990
Page
4
A newspaper carries the quotation from the Bible about belief and eternal life. The text contrasts with a U S constitutional preamble about religious establishment and free exercise of religion, speech and assembly.
The New York Sun 1897 editorial answers Virginia O'Hanlon's question with a persuasive defense of belief. It extols faith, imagination, love, and the unseen as may outlast skepticism, declaring Santa Claus exists as surely as goodness and devotion, and will live in childhood hearts forever.
A Christmas reflection by Jim Terry city editor of the Daily Telegraph. He recalls a child’s radiant joy at Santa and gifts, contrasts secular cheer with faith, and urges love as the enduring gift that saves hearts and lightens burdens. Christmas truth, hope, and the call to love persist beyond seasons.
A reader signs as MW Sergeant Henry Comer U.S. Army retired from Princeton West Virginia, urging silent prayer on Christmas for veterans and troops, thanking service members in Saudi Arabia and veterans in hospitals, while praising schools and citizens for aid. He recalls 1958 Saudi Arabia bound for Vietnam and Christmas 1944 with candy and cookies.
A collection of public service anecdotes highlights how figures like Vice President Bush and Rep. Porter aided individuals abroad and at home. The piece notes Bush's off the record rescue of an Af rican diplomat's family, medical care secured for Green Beret Sgt. Earnest, Zaman's free surgery in the US, doctors exposing hospital irregularities, Bradley supporting nonprofit groups with a Swiss award, and Rep Livingston securing an electric wheelchair for a Louisiana man.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson reflects from Dowdell Knob Ga a Roosevelt retreat weighing war and peace. She contrasts FDR's neutrality stance before world conflict with modern tensions in the Middle East noting Christmas in Saudi Arabia soldiers facing cultural borders and evolving chaplain roles. The piece blends history memory with current war anxieties.
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