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March 26, 2011 6:57 PM

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Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

Supposedly someone, a chaplain or a captain was asked to say a prayer for the men during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He answered with “praise the lord and pass the ammunition” while continuing to man a machine gun.

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  WHY IS THIS ALWAYS STUCK IN MY HEAD OH MY GOD
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  What’s going to be stuck in my head all day at church tomorrow.
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In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written 'the kingdom of God is within man.” Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men. In you, the people. You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. - Charlie Chaplin

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