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Dear Mercedes,
rubbing against the very wallpaper, speak about the notion that what
I ADDRESS:
CITY, STATE, ZIP:
I have to say thanks to a couple seeing out the same betrayed young, writing, innocent,
of folks, the publisher of this paper, windows... the wash basin, the Anne Frank to Dachau or Bergen
and a gent named John Almen of bathroom, the kitchen sink... Belsen or Auschwitz, can happen
Kerkhoven, Minnesota.
The known end that began the again.
The first for printing what the day they were betrayed made it
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GOD’S FIVE MINUTES
THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING Ecclestastes 3:1, The Living Bible, Tyndale House
OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
THOU ART WEIGHED IN
THE BALANCES, AND
ART FOUND WANTING
_ DAN/EZ 5:27
VAA
second wrote, and also to Mr.
Almen for his kind words — and
an assist in cracking the code on
Les Deux Magots.
difficult to bear.
If we are not watching out.
And it starts
The build up to the climate that imperceptibly
sanctioned it I have known of for
years, but to think now that grown
slowly, almost
it did then.
* * *
I wanted my kids to know what
(Have to add that Marty men from a civilized country did had happened, to know what
Albright, formerly a Mertexan, had what they did to a purely innocent human beings have done within
also come to my aid earlier and in
detail. So thanks all around.)
You keep reading; I’ll keep
writing.
Mindful as I am just now
regarding the nice words Mr.
Almen wrote about some words
on traveling, I have to say this bit
young girl, to that so very the life time of their grand parents,
harmless, brave little woman, whom they know as surely as they
I am not made to fathom the know night and day.
fact that she was part of six million The good, the bad, the rest of
people whose end was somewhat it.
the same. I want them to have what we
Dylan Thomas’s words came called in the fighter aviation
to me as I worked through that community by two letters:
house, from a poem, awful in its
will have darkness around its import, but as apt as ever anything
edges. was. Loosely paraphrased, it says,
Because I went to Anne “After the first death, there is no
Frank’s house in Amsterdam. other.”
*** I can learn something that
SA...situational awareness.
n I did not want, nor expect, that
the lesson would start with me,
again. It did.
* * *
Bless the Dutch; they had a
At times knowing how a thing makes a person to my way of fierce resistance organization, as
ends can be a comfort.
At other times, it can bring such
terribleness that wet, burning eyes
are merely a symptom of what is
part of and beneath the cause of
them.
I wanted my children to see the
house and understand what
happened there.
I was not prepared for the
effect it would have on me.
Maybe because the house had
been left pretty much the way it
was when the life of those people
was going on had a lot to do with
it. It was all very familiar to me,
not much unlike what I grew up
knowing persons, did the Norwegians and many
Because there was not much other countries in Europe, as well,
difference between Anne Frank Bless the Americans who
and me, being more or less stuck endured a hell of fire to get ashore
at age 14, as I have finally at Normandy, of whom many,
confessed to myself that I am, it many, ended up eventually as
hit as hard as any strike of Anne Frank did. They didn’t, could
overpowering force can and does not have, saved Anne Frank,
when you don’t know it is going But her life mattered. Very
to, when you don’t expect it, much so. Something of it was
I liked her, as much as I knew saved.
her, and I knew her, got to know
her, better than I thought.
I grieved for her there and then.
How it could have happened
does not need one such as me to
It was my first death, in World
War II. And it happened for me
there.
* * *
Traveling takes one to different
explain. It did, and that is awful places, doesn’t it?
with. Pictures pinned and pasted and frightening truth enough.
up to give an aspiration a look to
It is not always what you think
Like the windmills of Holland I it will be and, maybe, that is why
it...a sturdy bed where a little girl’s indirectly tilted toward last week, it is sortietimes worth words.
head rested, where dreams
happened.
call me Don, in favor of aesthetic,
usefill, energy producing things, as be...
Grim at times though they must
As much as anything, walking opposed to sight-blinding
the exact floors and up the stairs, billboards, it does little good to
^Que te vaya bien, eh?
Fleet
This Series Made Possible by
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El Principe de Paz
Presbyterian Church - A Bilingual Church
1340 S. Georgia • Mercedes
5565-1668
Pastor: Hector Reynoso
Services: Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.
Sunday Worship Services -11 a.m.
: Sunday and Wednesday Evening Services - 6 p.m.
Iglesia Bautista Filadelfia
410 Dawson Road • Mercedes
Schedule of Services:
Sunday School - 9:20 a.m.
Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.
Sunday Evening Service - 5 p.m.
Wednesday Prayer Service - 7 p.m.
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Mercedes, TX 78570
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LUTHERANS
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Worship Sundays at 8:15 a.m., Communion first and third
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Rio Grande Valley Council
F.A.I.T.H
Program
Families
Assistance
with
Intervention
Treatment
and
Health
THE AL COUNCIL
Weslaco F.A.L.T.H Program
1508 E. Business 83
Suite - C
Weslaco, Tx. 78596
office: (956) 447-5744
fax: (956) 969-3666
Our Friendly Staff
San Juana Banda, LCDC
Adult Counselor
Gilberto Villanueva, CI
Juvenile Counselor
Yolanda M. Garcia
Outreach Specialist
Promoting A Drug Free Lifestyle
^
The Rio Grande Valley Council,
Inc. a public nonprofit agency
offering treatment services for
substance abuse is proud to
announce a new federally funded
grant for our region. This grant
will allow treatment services
into new locations, Brownsville
and Weslaco. This program will
target adolescent and adult
populations 13 and above, with
a history of incarceration within
the past two years and have a
substance abuse/dependence
problem.
In addition to direct clinical
services, such as individual and
group counseling. This program
is enhanced with outreach
services. This service will target
families in an educational and
casemanagement role. This
program also offers resources
for physical health assessments
and HIV assessment testing.
This service is free to all eligible
individuals.
El Rio Grande Valley Council,
Inc. una agenda publica sin
fines lucrativos que ofrece servicios
de tratamientos para el abuso de
alcol y drogas, esta orgulloso de
anunciar nuevos fondos otorgados
federal en nuestra region. Estos
fondos permitiran servicios de
tratamientos en nuevos lugares,
Brownsville y Weslaco. Este
programa sera para los adoles-
centes y adultos de 13 anos y
mas, con una historia de encarce-
lamiento dentro de los dos ultimos
anos y que tengan un problema
de abuso/dependencia de alcol
o drogas.
Ademas de dirigir servicios clinicos,
consultas individual o de groupos,
este programa esta realizado de
esfuerzos de extender sua servicios
mas alia de sus limites. Este servicio
se dirigira a familias en manera
educativa y administrativa. Este
programa tambien ofrece recursos
para la evaluation de salud fisica y
examen de HIV. Este programa es
gratis para todos los individuos
elegibles.
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 34, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 20, 2003, newspaper, August 20, 2003; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1653079/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.