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Remembering Pastor Brown 99 and WWII Black soldiers honored
Jude Vereyken of Park Township honors Pastor Matthew Southall Brown Sr. and roughly 1.2 million African American WWII soldiers for desegregating the military, serving in the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, and receiving commendations amid enduring injustice.
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Choose the River as a Centering Force Amid War and Chaos
Kern Beare discusses Janessa Gans Wilder CIA analyst from 2003 to 2005 in Iraq, who found calm by watching the Euphrates. She left analysis for diplomacy, later founding The Euphrates Institute, and argues the river’s creative energy can guide daily resilience and peace.
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