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[All day event] CHARITY is giving your son to the nation in military service
- Description:
- "My love for you will never end....so says the LORD who love s you." ~ Isaiah 54:10
Dr. Jonas Salk won fame for developing a polio vaccine in 1953. His brother, Dr. Lee Salk, wrote a popular book, called Mr. Father, My Son.
He began the gook by d escribing a touching scene between his father and himself. He wrote:
"One blustery winter afternoon in 1944, my father waited with me in Penn Station for the train that would take me away to the army center where I wo uld begin my World War II military service. He looked at me with tears clou ding his eyes, hugged me tightly, kissed me on the cheek and told me good -bye in a choked voice. Then, wanting to give me something...he took off h is watch and gave it to me." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
When have you felt t he love of a parent or child as deeply as Dr. Salk and his father felt for each other? How did you express it?
Two people who love each othe r are in a place more holy than the interior of a ch...
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