“The real problem is not that we are different, nor that we disagree and have conflict. It's that most of us automatically view conflict as something negative rather than as a tool God can use to help us better understand ourselves and one another.

--Robert Ricciardelli”

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Wednesday Hero: Sgt. Kristopher J. Battles

I am still recovering from a mild stroke suffered in April.  But, I am beginning to catch up on these posts.  This one would have been posted on May 12, 2010.
   

Sgt. Kristopher J. Battles
Sgt. Kristopher J. Battles
    U.S.M.C

    Sgt. Kristopher J. Battles, the combat artist with the National Museum of the Marine Corps, stands in front of his paintings, May 5, 2010, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government for Harvard University. Battles showed several paintings, sketches and portraits for residents and tourists to see the artwork of a combat artist, in Cambridge, Mass., to help tell the Marine Corps story during Marine Week.


    Photo Courtesy United States Marine Corps.

    These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday.  For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
    We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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