Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 2008 Page: 1 of 12
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PUBLICATION NO. 800-140
God Bless America!
VOLUME 53 12 PAGES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008 DELL CITY, TEXAS 79837 50 CENTS A COPY NUMBER 7
Hudspeth County
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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF DELL VALLEY & HUDSPETH COUNTY
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Sen. Cornyn Encourages Texans To
Support Our Men And Women In Uni-
form With Holiday Greetings
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, today encouraged all Texans to partici-
pate in “Holiday Mail for Heroes,” an effort led by the American
Red Cross to deliver holiday cards to our service members and their
families. Sen. Cornyn’s Web site features a link on the homepage for
Texans interested in participating: www.comyn.senate.gov.
“As the holiday season approaches and we gather with our families, I
hope each of us takes the time to consider the great sacrifices our ser-
vicemen and women have made to ensure our safety and well-being.
Many of these heroes are far from home this holiday season, serving
on the front lines or training at military bases. Many of our wounded
warriors will be spending the. holidays recovering in hospitals and
medical facilities across the country. One important way we can show
them our support is by sending a holiday message to wish them well,”
Sen. Cornyn said.
“I encourage all Texans to participate in ‘Holiday Mail for Heroes’
and send a greeting to our troops. It is a small effort we can make that
can brighten the day of a serviceman or woman who is serving self-
lessly on our behalf. Please visit my Web site, www.comyn.senate,
gov, for helpful information on how to ensure your holiday greeting
makes its way to one of America’s heroes today.”
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Background:
The American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes are teaming up to send
holiday cards to service men and women in the United States and
around the world. From Tuesday, November 11 until Wednesday, De-
cember 10, the public is invited to send holiday cards with their mes-
sage of thanks and cheer to a special post office box. The Red Cross
and Pitney Bowes will then screen cards for hazardous materials, sort
and package the cards, and deliver them to military bases and hospi-
tals, veteran’s hospitals, and other locations during the holidays.
In 2007, nearly 600,000 cards were delivered through the ‘Holiday
Mail for Heroes’ effort.
Thanksgiving
Proclamation
It is the duty of nations as well as of men to
own their dependence upon the overruling
power of God; to confess their sins and trans-
gressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured
hope that genuine repentance will lead to mer-
cy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime
truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and
proven by all history, that those nations only
are blessed whose God is the Lord.
We know that by His divine law, nations, like
individuals, are subjected to punishments and
chastisements in this world. May we not justly
fear that the awful calamity of civil war which
now desolates the land may be a punishment
inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins,
to the needful end of our national reformation
as a whole people?
We have been the recipients of the choicest
bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved
these many years in peace and prosperity; we
have grown in numbers, wealth and power as
no other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten
the gracious hand which preserved us in peace
and multiplied and enriched and strengthened
us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceit-
fulness of our hearts, that all these blessings
were produced by some superior wisdom and
virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken
success, we have become too self-sufficient to
feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving
grace, too proud to pray to the God that made
us.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that God
should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully
acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice,
by the whole American people. I do therefore
invite my fellow citizens in every part of the
United States, and also those who are at sea
and those who are sojourning in foreign lands,
to set apart and observe the last Thursday of
November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise
to our benificent Father who dwelleth in the
heavens.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1863
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