Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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I am very grateful for being allowed the opportunity to serve as a chaplain for the Department of Veterans Affairs for sixteen years. I especially enjoyed working with the Veteran Volunteers in our VA Medical Centers. Their compassion for their injured and suffering brothers and sisters is beyond measure. I witnessed many moments in the corridors of the hospital where a volunteer would be greeting a patient with joy and laughter and in other moments the volunteer would be expressing concern and even tears. There were times another volunteer...
“The Holocaust, more commonly known now among Jewish scholars by its Hebrew term, Shoah (i.e.,”annihilation”), refers first and foremost to the systematic destruction of some six million European Jews by the Nazi government of Germany between 1933 and 1945. It also includes the death through disease, medical experimentation, war, and direct extermination of approximately five million non-Jewish victims, especially the physically and mentally impaired; Polish people, whose nation the Nazis hoped to reduce to slavery status; and Gypsies. The u...