Dyer Cumberland
Presbyterian Church
256 East College Street P.O. Box 181
Dyer, TN 38330
731-692-2594
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O Beautiful for Heroes Proved Newscaster Tom Brokaw went to the beaches of Normandy in June 2004 to honor the thousands of soldiers who invaded France 60 years ago. Part of his report included an interview with a survivor of the invasion, an old veteran named Harold Baumgarten. He had been with 29 other soldiers who jumped from a landing craft to rush onto the beach while bullets peppered them incessantly. Only two of the group of 30 men sur vived the day. Baumgarten himself was wounded in his jaw and had to wait a day before he could be treat ed. Altogether on that one day some 4,900 soldiers died. Harold Baumgarten was only 19, but such an experience made him a serious young man who, thanking God that he had survived, vowed to make his life count for something. He decided to become a physician and to dedicate himself to serve anyone who came to him, particularly veterans. Dr. Baumgarten kept his fees low so that those with smaller incomes would feel comfortable seeking his care. In his mind, he was serving on behalf of his fellow soldiers who had died. Thinking of the good Dr. Baumgarten has done in life, one wonders what positive contributions the many American men and women who died in the service could have made had they survived. Katherine Lee Bates, who penned “America the Beautiful” (1904), was surely thinking about such veterans when she wrote the third stanza:

O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife. Who more than self the country loved and mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refines till all success be nobleness and every gain divine!

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Your next breath; your next heartbeat--Always give credit where credit is due and be thankful for everything you have. 

"What do you have that God hasn't given you?"

1 Corinthians 4:7

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