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Re: Some Memorial Day Reading
Released on 2012-10-18 17:00 GMT
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On May 30, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Nate Hughes wrote:
*The Words They Leave To Us*
I want to spend my few minutes tonight with you giving voice to those
who cannot be with us. I want to share with you the voices of the fallen
and their families.
I want to give voice to the men and women who have given their lives for
this nation.
Together, across the years of our nation*s history, they answered the
They stood the watch.
They looked neither left nor right.
They did not search for an exit.
They walked steadily and unafraid into mortal danger, knowing all the
risks and all the costs.
On rolling ships at sea * on dusty streets under a burning sun *in the
high mountain passes * and in the stormy skies * they said simply and
bravely, *I will go.*
So many * too many * were lost to us forever.
But in their letters, and those of their loved ones, written in the last
days of their lives, there is majesty and honesty and humility that
deserve our attention as we approach this Memorial Day.
So tonight, I*d simply like to share with you excerpts from several
timeless letters*words written by our nation*s military heroes and their
families*who have borne this great country through times of peril and
darkness * who have sacrificed so much*so that we could be here tonight
rendering our own salute to freedom.
These are beautiful and sad letters * some of them from grieving parents
talking about their lost sons and daughters * others, the *last* letter
home that begins with the heart-breaking phrase, *If you are reading
this letter, it is because I am gone **
Let me begin with the Civil War, and a letter written by Major Sullivan
Ballou, a 32-year old member of the Second Regiment of Rhode Island
Volunteers, who died in the Battle of Bull Run.
He wrote to his wife, Sarah, just five days before the battle that would
cost his life:
*My very dear Sarah, the indications are very strong that we shall move
in a few days*perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write you
again, I feel impelled to write lines that may fall under your eye when
I shall be no more * Sarah: my love for you is deathless.
It seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but
omnipotence could break: and yet my love of country comes over me like a
strong wind and bears me irresistibly on with all these chains to the
battlefield. Never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath
escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name. Do not mourn
me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again.*
The second letter comes from World War I. A grieving father from this
very city writes the following about the loss of his son. *It is hard to
open the letters from those you love who are dead; but Quentin*s last
letters, written during his three weeks at the front, when of his
squadron, on average, a man was killed every day, are written with real
joy in the *great adventure.* He was engaged to a very beautiful girl,
of very fine and high character; it is heartbreaking for her, as well as
for his mother. He had his crowded hour, he died at the crest of life,
in the glory of the dawn.*
Quentin was a pilot who was shot down and died behind German lines just
months before the end of World War I in 1918. The dead son*s full name
was Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of former President Theodore
Roosevelt, a New York father who lost his beloved son.
Memorial Day, here in this wonderful setting in New York City, would be
incomplete without honoring and remembering those who are serving and
sacrificing right now: our nation*s youth, America*s sons and daughters,
who are fighting yet another battle*struggling to bring peace and
freedom to Iraq and Afghanistan*while keeping us all safe from those
that would do us harm.
We have lost many brave men and women in Iraq. Army Private First Class
Diego Rincon of Georgia wrote his mother a *last letter home.*
*Whether I make it or not, it*s all part of the plan. It can*t be
changed, only completed. *Mother* will be the last word I*ll say. Your
face will be the last picture that goes through my eyes. I just hope
that you*re proud of what I am doing and have faith in my decisions. I
will try hard and not give up. I just want to say sorry for anything I
have ever done wrong. And I*m doing it all for you, Mom. I love you.*
Another letter from Iraq, this one from US Army Captain Michael
MacKinnon, to his young daughter Madison:
*Madison, I*m sorry I broke my promise to you when I said I was coming
back. You were the jewel of my life. I don*t think anyone would ever
be good enough for you. Stay beautiful, stay sweet. You will always be
daddy*s little girl.*
Captain Michael MacKinnon died in October, 2005, in Iraq.
More recently, another father gave voice and image to his son*a Marine
Lieutenant lost in today*s conflict in Afghanistan.
*Robert was killed protecting our country, its people, and its values
from a terrible and relentless enemy in Afghanistan. We are a
broken-hearted but proud family. He was a wonderful and precious boy
living a meaningful life. He was in exactly the place he wanted to be,
doing exactly what he wanted to do, surrounded by the best men on this
earth*his Marines and a Navy Doc.*
This letter was written by a cherished friend of mine, Marine Lieutenant
General John Kelly.
* * *
What can we learn from these powerful letters?
To answer that, let me close with excerpts from just one more letter. It
was written from Iraq as a *just in case* letter by Private First Class
Jesse A. Givens, a letter to be delivered to his wife and children only
in the event of his death.
*My family,* he writes, *I never thought that I would be writing a
letter like this. I really don*t know where to start. The happiest
moments in my life all deal with my little family. I will always have
with me the small moments we all shared. The moments when we quit taking
life so serious and smiled. The sounds of a beautiful boy*s laughter or
the simple nudge of a baby unborn. You will never know how complete you
have made me*I did not want to have to write this letter. There is so
much more I need to say, so much more I need to share*Please keep my
babies safe. Please find it in your heart to forgive me for leaving you
alone. . . Teach our babies to live life to the fullest, tell yourself
to do the same.
I will always be there with you*Do me a favor, after you tuck the
children in, give them hugs and kisses from me. Go outside and look at
the stars and count them. Don*t forget to smile.
Love Always, Your husband, Jess.*
The letter was delivered in May 2003, two weeks before the birth of
their son and just after his death in combat *
* * *
So again, I ask, what can we take from these letters, so sweet and sad
and powerful in their simplicity and honesty?
First, and most importantly, that we are a lucky nation indeed to have
such men and women, who say to us, *I will go.*
Second, that their words matter. Their lives had weight and
importance. That we read their letters and in events like this, respect
them and grieve with their families for their loss. And perhaps most
importantly, that we support their families. That is what INTREPID is
all about.
Third, a lesson for all of us who go on in this world, safe and
protected due to the sacrifice of others: we should live our lives to
the fullest.
To that end, I*d like to close on this magical night on board this
historic ship by repeating the words of young Private First Class Jess
Givens*who will be forever young in our hearts and our prayers. What he
has to tell is us far more profound than anything this aging Admiral has
to say:
He said:
Hug and kiss your children
Go outside and look at the stars
Don*t forget to smile
That is pretty good advice for a Memorial Day * or any day.
In the end, what else really matters?
So let us remember our heroes*those of our past and those of our present
who walk among us right now.
Again, this is THEIR award. I am proud only to give voice to them
God Bless you all and God Bless America.
Adm. James Stavridis
Commander, U.S. European Command and
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
On 5/30/2011 4:30 PM, Nate Hughes wrote:
May 27, 2011, 12:36 PM
Remembering Mark
By MATT GALLAGHER
<Mail Attachment.jpeg>Courtesy of Matt GallagherMark Daily in February
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Memorial Day remembrances don*t change with time. Every year, it*s the
same stories, the same fallen friends, the same whys and what-ifs. We
change, at first slowly and barely discernible and then all in a rush,
but they? They stay the same.
In November of 2007, the British author Christopher Hitchens wrote a
nonfiction piece for Vanity Fair titled *A Death in the Family.* If
you haven*t read it, I suggest that you do. New York University*s
esteemed journalism school nominated it as one of the decade*s top 80
works of journalism. It*s about the death of a young lieutenant in
Iraq, and the resulting effects on his family, his community, and the
author. The lieutenant*s name was Mark Daily, a 2005 graduate of
U.C.L.A., and he was my friend.
We met in September of 2005 at Fort Knox in Kentucky, and like 40 or
so of our peers, we wore gold bars and exuded green * something that,
if known at the time, would have mortified us. For seven months, we
labored through the Armor Officer Basic Course and Scout Leaders
Course together. Even though Mark was in a different training platoon,
we became familiar through mutual friends, Matt Gross and Chris Demo,
and we cultivated our own relationship from there.
When I received word about Mark*s passing (his Humvee hit a
deep-buried I.E.D. on Jan. 15, 2007, and he died instantly), I could
remember only the times we disagreed and argued, for whatever reason.
These debates were almost always esoteric and philosophical in nature;
I think we gravitated toward one another for these discussions,
knowing our other, more pragmatic, friends would*ve scoffed and told
us to focus on the tasks at hand. Still in Hawaii at the time of his
death, about a year short of my unit*s deployment timeline, I became
overwrought with a type of survivor*s guilt fairly common in military
veterans. Mark was the first from our Basic class to fall (we*d lose a
second, David Schultz, on Jan. 31, 2008), and it became the dreaded
*this is for real* moment all young soldiers experience in their wars.
Demo and I now lived together in Honolulu, and we did the only thing
there was to do for 23-year-old kids caught in such a situation: we
got rip-roaringly drunk that night toasting to Mark, and did our best
to suppress the fears his loss had incurred upon our souls and
psyches. After all, our battles in Iraq still awaited, a fact no
longer gilded with romanticism.
Before he deployed with the First Cavalry Division, Mark posted a
brief statement on his MySpace page, titled *Why I Joined.* The entire
piece resonates even today, in a post-surge America and post-Awakening
Iraq, because it puts on display the type of individual that made
these movements work in the first place. *Consider that there are
19-year-old soldiers from the Midwest who have never touched a college
campus or a protest,* Mark wrote, *who have done more to uphold the
universal legitimacy of representative government and individual
rights by placing themselves between Iraqi voting lines and homicidal
religious fanatics.* Mark channeled idealism into action in a manner
that seemed natural to him, but remains all too rare in our modern
Why*d we sometimes disagree? He saw the best in people; I feared the
worst. He was inspired by Hitchens; I called Hitchens a chicken hawk.
Although he was sympathetic to antiwar statements and arguments
regarding Iraq, he instead focused on the opportunity we had to
instill democracy in the heart of the Middle East. I, uh, didn*t. Mark
also became the first person to tell me to stop concerning myself with
how we ended up in Iraq * it didn*t matter anymore * and to instead
focus on what could be done since we were already there. And he was
right. We were second lieutenants destined for the war regardless of
our personal opinions, and the decisions made in 2003 were now as
irrelevant to our lives as they were to the Iraqi people living in the
midst of it all.
With the passage of time, and through my own deployment to Iraq, I*ve
been able to focus on the good times with Mark: laughing about being
covered head to toe in mud while fixing a tank track; ganging up on
political fascists and berating them into intellectual submission;
drinking beers at Irish pubs in Louisville, reminiscing about field
exercises, talking about them like they were actual war stories. He
was a driven mind, less of an oddball than me, and I genuinely liked
and admired him * things that aren*t always the case with battle
In retrospect, I think that I was even a little jealous of Mark*s
rugged optimism; young men like him weren*t supposed to exist anymore,
except maybe in the minds of our Greatest Generation grandparents. But
he did, and all of us who were there with him at Knox are better off
because of it. Even then, we knew Mark to be the lieutenant we wanted
our platoons to think we actually were. He set a high standard and
gave us something to aspire to as leaders * something I suspect
lingers in all of us, whether we*re still in the Army or not. I know
that it remains the case for me.
See you at Fiddler*s Green, Mark.
On 5/30/2011 4:25 PM, Nate Hughes wrote:
A Death in the Family
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A 21-year-old Mark Daily takes his oath as a U.S. Army officer
during a commissioning ceremony at U.C.L.A. on June 25, 2005. All
photos courtesy of the Daily family.
I was having an oppressively normal morning a few months ago,
flicking through the banality of quotidian e-mail traffic, when I
idly clicked on a message from a friend headed "Seen This?" The
attached item turned out to be a very well-written story by Teresa
Watanabe of the Los Angeles Times. It described the death, in Mosul,
Iraq, of a young soldier from Irvine, California, named Mark
Jennings Daily, and the unusual degree of emotion that his community
was undergoing as a consequence. The emotion derived from a very
moving statement that the boy had left behind, stating his reasons
for having become a volunteer and bravely facing the prospect that
his words might have to be read posthumously. In a way, the story
was almost too perfect: this handsome lad had been born on the
Fourth of July, was a registered Democrat and self-described
agnostic, a U.C.L.A. honors graduate, and during his college days
had fairly decided reservations about the war in Iraq. I read on,
and actually printed the story out, and was turning a page when I
saw the following:
"Somewhere along the way, he changed his mind. His family says there
was no epiphany. Writings by author and columnist Christopher
Hitchens on the moral case for war deeply influenced him * "
I don't exaggerate by much when I say that I froze. I certainly felt
a very deep pang of cold dismay. I had just returned from a visit to
Iraq with my own son (who is 23, as was young Mr. Daily) and had
found myself in a deeply pessimistic frame of mind about the war.
Was it possible that I had helped persuade someone I had never met
to place himself in the path of an I.E.D.? Over-dramatizing myself a
bit in the angst of the moment, I found I was thinking of William
Butler Yeats, who was chilled to discover that the Irish rebels of
1916 had gone to their deaths quoting his play Cathleen ni
Houlihan. He tried to cope with the disturbing idea in his poem "Man
and the Echo":
Did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot? *
Could my spoken words have checked
That whereby a house lay wrecked?
Abruptly dismissing any comparison between myself and one of the
greatest poets of the 20th century, I feverishly clicked on all the
links from the article and found myself on Lieutenant Daily's
MySpace site, where his statement "Why I Joined" was posted. The
site also immediately kicked into a skirling noise of Irish
revolutionary pugnacity: a song from the Dropkick Murphys
album Warrior's Code. And there, at the top of the page, was a link
to a passage from one of my articles, in which I poured scorn on
those who were neutral about the battle for Iraq * I don't remember
ever feeling, in every allowable sense of the word, quite so hollow.
I writhed around in my chair for a bit and decided that I ought to
call Ms. Watanabe, who could not have been nicer. She anticipated
the question I was too tongue-tied to ask: Would the Daily
family*those whose "house lay wrecked"*be contactable? "They'd
actually like to hear from you." She kindly gave me the e-mail
address and the home number.
I don't intend to make a parade of my own feelings here, but I
expect you will believe me when I tell you that I e-mailed first.
For one thing, I didn't want to choose a bad time to ring. For
another, and as I wrote to his parents, I was quite prepared for
them to resent me. So let me introduce you to one of the most
generous and decent families in the United States, and allow me to
tell you something of their experience.
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Second Lieutenant Mark Daily flanked by his wife, Janet, and his
parents, Linda and John, at Fort Bliss, in Texas, October 30, 2006.
In the midst of their own grief, to begin with, they took the
trouble to try to make me feel better. I wasn't to worry about any
"guilt or responsibility": their son had signed up with his eyes
wide open and had "assured us that if he knew the possible outcome
might be this, he would still go rather than have the option of
living to age 50 and never having served his country. Trust us when
we tell you that he was quite convincing and persuasive on this
point, so that by the end of the conversation we were practically
packing his bags and waving him off." This made me relax
fractionally, but then they went on to write: "Prior to his
deployment he told us he was going to try to contact you from Iraq.
He had the idea of being a correspondent from the front-lines
through you, and wanted to get your opinion about his journalistic
potential. He told us that he had tried to contact you from either
Kuwait or Iraq. He thought maybe his e-mail had not reached you * "
That was a gash in my hide all right: I think of all the junk e-mail
I read every day, and then reflect that his precious one never got
to me.
Lieutenant Daily crossed from Kuwait to Iraq in November 2006, where
he would be deployed with the "C," or "Comanche," Company of the
Second Battalion of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment*General Custer's
old outfit*in Mosul. On the 15th of January last, he was on patrol
and noticed that the Humvee in front of him was not properly
"up-armored" against I.E.D.'s. He insisted on changing places and
taking a lead position in his own Humvee, and was shortly afterward
hit by an enormous buried mine that packed a charge of some 1,500
pounds of high explosive. Yes, that's right. He, and the three other
American soldiers and Iraqi interpreter who perished with him, went
to war with the army we had. It's some consolation to John and Linda
Daily, and to Mark's brother and two sisters, and to his widow (who
had been married to him for just 18 months) to know that he couldn't
have felt anything.
Yet what, and how, should we feel? People are not on their oath when
speaking of the dead, but I have now talked to a good number of
those who knew Mark Daily or were related to him, and it's clear
that the country lost an exceptional young citizen, whom I shall
always wish I had had the chance to meet. He seems to have passed
every test of young manhood, and to have been admired and loved and
respected by old and young, male and female, family and friends. He
could have had any career path he liked (and won a George C.
Marshall Award that led to an offer to teach at West Point). Why are
we robbed of his contribution? As we got to know one another better,
I sent the Daily family a moving statement made by the mother of
Michael Kelly, my good friend and the editor-at-large of The
Atlantic Monthly, who was killed near the Baghdad airport while
embedded during the invasion of 2003. Marguerite Kelly was highly
stoic about her son's death, but I now think I committed an error of
taste in showing this to the Dailys, who very gently responded that
Michael had lived long enough to write books, have a career, become
a father, and in general make his mark, while their son didn't live
long enough to enjoy any of these opportunities. If you have tears,
prepare to shed them now *
In his brilliant book What Is History?, Professor E. H. Carr asked
about ultimate causation. Take the case of a man who drinks a bit
too much, gets behind the wheel of a car with defective brakes,
drives it round a blind corner, and hits another man, who is
crossing the road to buy cigarettes. Who is the one responsible? The
man who had one drink too many, the lax inspector of brakes, the
local authorities who didn't straighten out a dangerous bend, or the
smoker who chose to dash across the road to satisfy his bad habit?
So, was Mark Daily killed by the Ba'thist and bin Ladenist riffraff
who place bombs where they will do the most harm? Or by the Rumsfeld
doctrine, which sent American soldiers to Iraq in insufficient
numbers and with inadequate equipment? Or by the Bush
administration, which thought Iraq would be easily pacified? Or by
the previous Bush administration, which left Saddam Hussein in power
in 1991 and fatally postponed the time of reckoning?
These grand, overarching questions cannot obscure, at least for me,
the plain fact that Mark Daily felt himself to be morally committed.
I discovered this in his life story and in his surviving writings.
Again, not to romanticize him overmuch, but this is the boy who
would not let others be bullied in school, who stuck up for his
younger siblings, who was briefly a vegetarian and Green Party
member because he couldn't stand cruelty to animals or to the
environment, a student who loudly defended Native American rights
and who challenged a MySpace neo-Nazi in an online debate in which
the swastika-displaying antagonist finally admitted that he needed
to rethink things. If I give the impression of a slight nerd here I
do an injustice. Everything that Mark wrote was imbued with a great
spirit of humor and tough-mindedness. Here's an excerpt from his
"Why I Joined" statement:
Anyone who knew me before I joined knows that I am quite aware and
at times sympathetic to the arguments against the war in Iraq. If
you think the only way a person could bring themselves to volunteer
for this war is through sheer desperation or blind obedience then
consider me the exception (though there are countless like me).*
Consider that there are 19 year old soldiers from the Midwest who
have never touched a college campus or a protest who have done more
to uphold the universal legitimacy of representative government and
individual rights by placing themselves between Iraqi voting lines
and homicidal religious fanatics.
And here's something from one of his last letters home:
I was having a conversation with a Kurdish man in the city of Dahok
(by myself and completely safe) discussing whether or not the
insurgents could be viewed as "freedom fighters" or "misguided
anti-capitalists." Shaking his head as I attempted to articulate
what can only be described as pathetic apologetics, he cut me off
and said "the difference between insurgents and American soldiers is
that they get paid to take life*to murder, and you get paid to save
lives." He looked at me in such a way that made me feel like he was
looking through me, into all the moral insecurity that living in a
free nation will instill in you. He "oversimplified" the issue, or
at least that is what college professors would accuse him of doing.
In his other e-mails and letters home, which the Daily family very
kindly showed me, he asked for extra "care packages" to share with
local Iraqis, and said, "I'm not sure if Irvine has a sister-city,
but I am going to personally contact the mayor and ask him to extend
his hand to Dahok, which has been more than hospitable to this
native-son." (I was wrenched yet again to discover that he had got
this touching idea from an old article of mine, which had made a
proposal for city-twinning that went nowhere.) In the last analysis,
it was quite clear, Mark had made up his mind that the United States
was a force for good in the world, and that it had a duty to the
freedom of others. A video clip of which he was very proud has him
being "crowned" by a circle of smiling Iraqi officers. I have a
photograph of him, standing bareheaded and contentedly smoking a
cigar, on a rooftop in Mosul. He doesn't look like an occupier at
all. He looks like a staunch friend and defender. On the photograph
is written "We carry a new world in our hearts."
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Two weeks before he was killed in action, last January, Mark Daily
relaxed on the rooftop of Combat Operating Base "Resolve," in Mosul.
In his last handwritten letter home, posted on the last day of 2006,
Mark modestly told his father that he'd been chosen to lead a combat
platoon after a grenade attack had killed one of its soldiers and
left its leader too shaken to carry on. He had apparently sounded
steady enough on the radio on earlier missions for him to be given a
leadership position after only a short time "in country." As he put
it: "I am now happily doing what I was trained to do, and am
fulfilling an obligation that has swelled inside me for years. I am
deep in my element * and I am euphoric." He had no doubts at all
about the value of his mission, and was the sort of natural soldier
who makes the difference in any war.
At the first chance I got, I invited his family for lunch in
California. We ended up spending the entire day together. As soon as
they arrived, I knew I had been wrong to be so nervous. They looked
too good to be true: like a poster for the American way. John Daily
is an aerospace project manager, and his wife, Linda, is an
audiologist. Their older daughter, Christine, eagerly awaiting her
wedding, is a high-school biology teacher, and the younger sister,
Nicole, is in high school. Their son Eric is a bright junior at
Berkeley with a very winning and ironic grin. And there was Mark's
widow, an agonizingly beautiful girl named Snejana ("Janet")
Hristova, the daughter of political refugees from Bulgaria. Her
first name can mean "snowflake," and this was his name for her in
the letters of fierce tenderness that he sent her from Iraq. These,
with your permission, I will not share, except this:
One thing I have learned about myself since I've been out here is
that everything I professed to you about what I want for the world
and what I am willing to do to achieve it was true. *
My desire to "save the world" is really just an extension of trying
to make a world fit for you.
If that is all she has left, I hope you will agree that it isn't
I had already guessed that this was no gung-ho Orange County
Republican clan. It was pretty clear that they could have done
without the war, and would have been happier if their son had not
gone anywhere near Iraq. (Mr. Daily told me that as a young man he
had wondered about going to Canada if the Vietnam draft ever caught
up with him.) But they had been amazed by the warmth of their
neighbors' response, and by the solidarity of his former
brothers-in-arms*1,600 people had turned out for Mark's memorial
service in Irvine. A sergeant's wife had written a letter to Linda
and posted it on Janet's MySpace site on Mother's Day, to tell her
that her husband had been in the vehicle with which Mark had
insisted on changing places. She had seven children who would have
lost their father if it had gone the other way, and she felt both
awfully guilty and humbly grateful that her husband had been spared
by Mark's heroism. Imagine yourself in that position, if you can,
and you will perhaps get a hint of the world in which the Dailys now
live: a world that alternates very sharply and steeply between grief
and pride.
On a drive to Fort Knox, Kentucky, and again shortly before shipping
out from Fort Bliss, Texas, Mark had told his father that he had
three wishes in the event of his death. He wanted bagpipes played at
the service, and an Irish wake to follow it. And he wanted to be
cremated, with the ashes strewn on the beach at Neskowin, Oregon,
the setting for his happiest memories of boyhood vacations. The
first two of these conditions had already been fulfilled. The Dailys
rather overwhelmed me by asking if I would join them for the third
one. So it was that in August I found myself on the dunes by an
especially lovely and remote stretch of the Oregon coastline. The
extended family was there, including both sets of grandparents, plus
some college friends of Mark's and his best comrade from the army,
an impressive South Dakotan named Matt Gross. As the sun began to
sink on a day that had been devoted to reminiscence and moderate
drinking, we took up the tattered Stars and Stripes that had flown
outside the family home since Mark's deployment and walked to his
favorite spot to plant it. Everyone was supposed to say something,
but when John Daily took the first scoop from the urn and spread the
ashes on the breeze, there was something so unutterably final in the
gesture that tears seemed as natural as breathing and I wasn't at
all sure that I could go through with it. My idea had been to quote
from the last scene of Macbeth, which is the only passage I know
that can hope to rise to such an occasion. The tyrant and usurper
has been killed, but Ross has to tell old Siward that his boy has
perished in the struggle:
Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt;
He only lived but till he was a man;
The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd
In the unshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he died.
This being Shakespeare, the truly emotional and understated moment
follows a beat or two later, when Ross adds:
Your cause of sorrow
Must not be measured by his worth, for then
It hath no end.
I became a trifle choked up after that, but everybody else also
managed to speak, often reading poems of their own composition, and
as the day ebbed in a blaze of glory over the ocean, I thought,
Well, here we are to perform the last honors for a warrior and hero,
and there are no hysterical ululations, no shrieks for revenge, no
insults hurled at the enemy, no firing into the air or bogus
hysterics. Instead, an honest, brave, modest family is doing its
private best. I hope no fanatical fool could ever mistake this for
weakness. It is, instead, a very particular kind of strength. If
America can spontaneously produce young men like Mark, and occasions
like this one, it has a real homeland security instead of a
bureaucratic one. To borrow some words of George Orwell's when he
first saw revolutionary Barcelona, "I recognized it immediately as a
state of affairs worth fighting for."
I mention Orwell for a reason, because Mark Daily wasn't yet
finished with sending me messages from beyond the grave. He took a
pile of books with him to Iraq, which included Thomas Paine's The
Crisis; War and Peace; Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (well, nobody's
perfect); Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time; John
McCain's Why Courage Matters; and George Orwell's Animal
Farm and 1984. And a family friend of the Dailys', noticing my own
book on Orwell on their shelf, had told them that his own father,
Harry David Milton, was "the American" mentioned in Homage to
Catalonia,who had rushed to Orwell's side after he had been shot in
the throat by a Fascist sniper. This seemed to verge on the eerie.
Orwell thought that the Spanish Civil War was a just war, but he
also came to understand that it was a dirty war, where a decent
cause was hijacked by goons and thugs, and where betrayal and
squalor negated the courage and sacrifice of those who fought on
principle. As one who used to advocate strongly for the liberation
of Iraq (perhaps more strongly than I knew), I have grown coarsened
and sickened by the degeneration of the struggle: by the sordid news
of corruption and brutality (Mark Daily told his father how dismayed
he was by the failure of leadership at Abu Ghraib) and by the paltry
politicians in Washington and Baghdad who squabble for precedence
while lifeblood is spent and spilled by young people whose boots
they are not fit to clean. It upsets and angers me more than I can
safely say, when I reread Mark's letters and poems and see that*as
of course he would*he was magically able to find the noble element
in all this, and take more comfort and inspiration from a few plain
sentences uttered by a Kurdish man than from all the vapid speeches
ever given. Orwell had the same experience when encountering a young
volunteer in Barcelona, and realizing with a mixture of sadness and
shock that for this kid all the tired old slogans about liberty and
justice were actually real. He cursed his own cynicism and
disillusionment when he wrote:
For the fly-blown words that make me spew
Still in his ears were holy,
And he was born knowing what I had learned
Out of books and slowly.
However, after a few more verses about the lying and cruelty and
stupidity that accompany war, he was still able to do justice to the
young man:
But the thing I saw in your face
No power can disinherit:
No bomb that ever burst
Shatters the crystal spirit.
May it be so, then, and may death be not proud to have taken Mark
Daily, whom I never knew but whom you now know, and*I hope*miss.
Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.
More http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/hitchens200711?printable=true#ixzz1NrwJsWRW
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Assistant Managing Editor EAST LONGMEADOW Co-publisher Christopher Buendo's earliest memory of The Reminder occurred during the 1960s riding in his father's beat up station wagon with a trailer hitched up to it full of that week's edition. "We'd pick up the papers from the printer in Rockville, Conn., and the wagon was so beat up, I was always surprised when we'd make it back to East Longmeadow," he recalled, noting how far the paper has come since his father and mother, Carlo and Anne Buendo, founded it in 1962. Next November, Reminder Publications Inc. will turn 50 and each month leading up to the big day Nov. 1, 2012 we'll be sponsoring events, contests and giveaways celebrating our history and our local partners. Reminder Publications will also be commemorating the 20th anniversary of our monthly magazine, PRIME, as well as the first anniversary of our sister company, Envision Marketing Group, and the 10th anniversary of Hometown Heroes. Other events will include Reminder Night at a Springfield Armor game in January, the unveiling of a new website, the opening of our time capsule buried in 1997 and a fund-raising effort for a local charity, among many others. "We want to celebrate the communities we serve and tip our hats to our faithful readership and advertisers, while giving the region some added benefits to picking up our publications," Christopher Buendo said, noting that Reminder Publications' weekly newspaper has grown from one edition to four serving 14 towns and 140,000 readers. Christopher Buendo and his brother, Daniel Buendo, took over the business from their parents in the 1990s as co-publishers. "Reminder Publications Inc. came about as a result of knowing that East Longmeadow could benefit from a community weekly newspaper. The East Longmeadow Reminder was just an idea in November 1962, and that idea developed into a business ... The only equipment in the 12'-by-15' [office] was a drafting table, one desk, one file cabinet, one manual Underwood typewriter, a variety of speedball pens, transfer type sheets for headlines and a paste pot," Carlo Buendo wrote in a column in 1997. "The company phone rang both at the office and at home, where my wife, Anne, would take messages and classified ads all with a one-year-old Christopher Buendo hanging onto her leg!" he continued, noting that the original Reminders were printed on 8 1/2 by 11-inch yellow newsprint. Reminder Publications Inc. has since relocated from its original office at 59 Prospect St., to the company's own building at 280 North Main St., grown from three employees to 50, acquired the Chicopee Herald and established the MetroWest Reminder and the Springfield Reminder, while publishing more than 2,600 editions. When asked where he sees Reminder Publications in the next 50 years, Christopher Buendo replied, "Community newspapers like The Reminder outlast most other forms of print because of our ultra-local content. We know we're a resource for the community and we plan to continue that tradition for many more years to come." Daniel Buendo added, "As with any company, we really need to adapt to remain relevant in an economic world that changes faster and faster all the time. At the end of 2010 we launched our newest division, Envision Marketing, which is designed to help small to medium sized businesses with all of their marketing needs. This has opened up a lot of new doors for us already and I see Envision being a big part of our future." |


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on 30-09-2011 03:05 PM
Every time i try to access Facebook, this message come up on the screen.
i have no idea what this means. how can i unblock it??
Solved! Go to the solution
01-10-2011 12:14 AM - edited 01-10-2011 12:17 AM
Somebody has set your routers firewall to block sites with the word Facebook in.
I am not sure of the circumstances in your home, are you the routers owner or just a
user of the connection, do you know who would of set it up like that?
on 01-10-2011 04:41 PM
im the routers owner and i have never set any firewall
on 01-10-2011 04:42 PM
how can i unblock ??
on 01-10-2011 04:50 PM
go to http://192.168.0.1
defualt username admin
defualt password sky
Click the securty tab, block sites, remove site from block list, click apply
on 01-10-2011 05:23 PM
on 01-10-2011 05:55 PM
Hi ChrisL1989,
What Dsldude was meaning is if you enter the numbers 192.168.0.1 into your address bar. Once you have done this use the username "admin" and the password is "sky" Then when you have done this click on the "security" tab then the "blocked sites" tab and then remove the sites from the block list that you would like unblocked. hope this has helped any confusion you may have had.
Once you have done this let us know if you are still having the issue.
on 07-12-2013 11:59 AM
Facebook is blocked by network. . . I tried the security tab, but there is no sites on the list to be blocked, what should I do?
on 07-12-2013 12:26 PM
That sounds like the new Sky Broadband Shield has been enabled on your internet connection.
Are you the ac holder? if not I would ask who is about it..
See here for more info
on 07-12-2013 12:31 PM
on 07-12-2013 12:45 PM
Maybe just a temporay bug on the router then as that also has the abilty to blocksites, I would turn the Broadband Sheild totaly off for the moment via MySky while you have this issue.
Then hard reset the router by keeping the reset pressed down for 15 seconds before letting go.
on 07-12-2013 01:36 PM
THanks, it is indeed a bug, reset the router as instructed and was able to access the site again.
on 09-12-2013 11:57 AM
Hi Rjharrow.
It's great to see the community all coming together to help another user. I'm delighted to see that you have managed to resolved the issue where your Facebook access was blocked by rebooting your Sky router.
If you have any further issues or questions, be sure to get back in touch by creating a new thread on the relevant board. you can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.


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JAGS Sports Club in South London offers a variety of sports courses to keep all children entertained during the school holidays.
From Multi Sports to Climbing with lots in-between, each course is tailored to bring the best out of each child.
JAGS offers separate courses in Multi-Sports, Soccer Academy, Swimming, Trampoline, Tennis, Dance, Climbing, Fencing, Archery, Diving and Triathlon (Fencing, Trampoline and Climbing), all courses being led by fully qualified instructors who are at the top of their game...
If your child is aged between 4-14 yrs old we have a course for them. Sign up now to experience coordinated and driven weekly or daily courses which will allow youngsters to realise their capabilities. All courses ran at JAGS are designed to provide a great opportunity to develop social and sporting experiences in a fun and organised environment.
When choosing Poolside Manor you make a conscious decision to join London's leading independent swimming tuition and activity centre for children.
Swimming Lessons
Poolside Manor prides itself on the quality of swimming services it offers, from term-time tuition for children and parents & toddlers to holiday crash courses.
- Small class sizes
- extended shallow end to build beginner confidence
- purpose-built poolside viewing gallery for spectators
- outstanding water quality heated to 31 + degrees
Multi Activity Day Camps
Poolside Manor has a rich history of providing top quality multi-activity day camps for children aged 3 to 11 every single school holiday.
Children are served up such a range of sports, arts and crafts activities, dance, drama, games, trips and visiting performers, they're likely to find new activities and new friends every week and every day!
Parties with a difference
Poolside Manor Pool Parties are famous all over for the lasting enjoyment they bring. Parties take place on a Saturday and Sunday afternoon, each lasting 2 hours
- Exciting pool games followed by free play session
- Disco music with giant inflatables
- Dry games in our activity hall
- Parties are suitable for children enjoying their 5th birthday upwards.
Swimming lessons for children in: Lyndhurst Gardens, Finchley, London N3 1TD
The China Fleet Country Club is set in 180 acres of stunning Cornish countryside along the banks of the River Tamar and just 10 minutes from Plymouth it is an ideal location for visiting both Cornwall and Devon.
We offer 40 spacious apartments that are perfect for family holidays; all are ensuite with fully equipped kitchens and comfortable lounge / dining areas. Families can take advantage of our championship-standard golf course and our leisure facilities including 25m swimming pool, Aqua Spa Retreat and gym. We also offer an excellent range of dining options.
China Fleet also offer exciting and fun-filled activities throughout the year for kids of all ages:
Swimming Lessons: Parent and toddler sessions for 12 weeks to 3 years. Pre-school sessions for 3-4.5 yr olds and ASA Kellogs swimming lessons for 4.5+
Weekly After-School Activities: Weekly sessions include Junior Gym, Arts & Crafts and Junior Dragons.
Sports Coaching: 12 week courses include Trampolining, Soccer School and Swimming Lessons all taught be fully qualified staff in a fun and safe atmosphere.
Martial Arts: We also have Junior Ju Jutsu run by sensie Greg Regan.
Queenswood Swim School
Queenswood Enterprises Ltd, Shepherd's Way, Brookmans Park AL9 6NSEstablished in September 2006 Queenswood Swim School has developed a good reputation within the local community for safety, good organisation and expert teaching. It resides at Queenswood School and is conveniently located in Brookmans Park, 3 miles from Potters Bar train station and within a small driving distance from the A1,M1& M25 .Parking is easy as the swimming pool is readily accessible from the schools main car park.
It has exclusive use of a fabulous 25m x 4 lane heated swimming pool. The pool has a shallow end which has a depth of 1m , where most 4yr olds can stand, and a deep end of 1.85m, which allows us to teach diving as one of our disciplines. High standards of hygiene and cleanliness are paramount to us, so rest assured this is taken very seriously. All swimmers must wear swimming hats and shower prior to entering the water.
Queenswood Swim School offers lessons to suit all abilities, for children from around 4 to teenage. Lessons are also available for adults, from non-swimmers to advanced, and for those who wish to swim to keep fit. It runs over a period of on average 11 weeks during the Autumn, Spring and Summer school terms. The classes are 30 minutes in duration.
For further information please email or contact the above number.
Kids Village offers a full range of term-time and holiday sports camps for boys and girls of all ages.
We always take pride in ensuring the quality of every activity remains at its highest; but never forgetting the fun factor! Our experienced coaching team will help your child to develop a new or existing skill in a fun and safe environment.
Camps and activities include:
- Archery
- Climbing
- Fencing
- Football
- Gymnastics
- Multi-Sports Day Camps
- Netball
- Trampolining
- Family Fun Swim
- Swimming Lessons/Stroke Improvement
- Birthday Parties (Climbing, Football & Swimming)
- ...and more!
Swimming lessons for children and holiday camps: de Havilland Campus, Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9EU
Tandridge Trust has three centres in Tandridge:
de Stafford Sports Centre: Burntwood Lane, Caterham, Surrey CR3 5YX
Tel: (01883) 344355
Facilities include a four-lane swimming pool offering fun sessions and tuition, gym, studio and café. Our sports hall is available for children's activities, club hire and casual use. We also organize great children's parties. Our sports and culture development teams offer termtime children's courses in Cheer Dance, basketball, trampolining alongside a full timetable of swimming lessons at all three pools.
Our holiday activity programme is packed full of exciting things to do during the school holidays.
The Village Health Club: Weston Drive, Caterham, Surrey CR3 5XY
Tel: (01883) 343777
Our members only club offers a relaxed and welcoming environment for all of our Tandridge Trust Premier Members. Our facilities include: a 16.5metre three lane swimming pool, spa bubble pool, the Fitness place gym and two Studios, a Sauna room, the Therapy Studios and Beauty @ The Village treatment rooms.
Tandridge Leisure Centre: Hoskins Road, Oxted, Surrey RH8 9HT
Tel: (01883) 716717
Facilities include a four-lane fitness pool offering tuition, lagoon style pool with slide and water features, gym, sauna and steam room, studio and café. We also organise great children's parties.
There are great benefits for babies swimming at such a young age, which include helping to develop physically, with greater muscle control, hand-eye co-ordination as well as strengthening baby's heart and lungs. Alertness is also improved through word association and responding to commands such as kick, kick kick or hold on. Socially your baby will interact with other babies and join in the fun and games and as they get older sing along to the songs.
Holding your baby in water will help to stimulate the natural movement of their arms and legs and at Baby Swimmers, we teach the parents to take their baby under water from the very beginning.
Baby Swimmers runs classes for babies and toddlers up to 4 years old in York, Pocklington, Harrogate, Leeds and Bradford and follows Starfish, the official water safety programme for babies through the STA. There are 6 awards throughout the series with the aim of concentrating on 1 Starfish award per 10 week block, it should therefore take just over a year to achieve all six and then your babies can move on to a more advanced award programme.
So why not come swimming, be safe and have fun and teach your baby the enjoyment of water.
Swimming lessons for babies and children in: Batley, Bradford, Harrogate, Leeds, Pocklington and York
Founded in 1993 by Julie-Ann James, Aquababies encourage the early development of baby's natural swimming skills, enhancing their general health, awareness, eating and sleeping patterns and strengthening their cardio-respiratory functions. Through correct training babies can learn to respect and love the water, happily swimming above and under the water.
Aquababies is taught at over thirty pools throughout London and the surrounding areas. We are expanding our classes throughout the whole of England, to ensure that as many young babies have the opportunity to develop their swimming skills as early as possible.
Swimming classes for babies in: North London, West London, West Drayton, Brighton, Buckhan Hill, Lee-on-Solent and Whitely in Hampshire
Water Babies runs fun, innovative baby swimming classes across Wiltshire & East Somerset.
Our fully qualified instructors are world class. With a multi-award winning programme which teaches vital water confidence and safety skills from birth, our overall aim is to teach you to teach your baby to swim. So we'll always explain why we're doing everything, as well as carefully demonstrate exactly what to do.
Through carefully structured training, babies can be taught life saving skills such as turning onto their backs or, following a sudden submersion, swimming to the nearest solid object. They grow familiar with what it feels like to fall into water, so that should they ever accidentally fall in they are far less likely to panic and drown. And our results speak for themselves. In the last three years alone, at least ten of our tiny clients have saved their own lives as a result of the skills they learnt at Water Babies – and five of them were just two years old at the time.
Water Babies classes run in Frome, Chippenham & Calne. For further details please call 01249 248 863, email email@example.com
Aspirations Wellbeing is a sports, leisure and cultural trust that manages the Pemberton Centre and Splash Leisure Pool, both in Rushden and the Nene Centre in Thrapston.
We aim to provide a variety of great value for money events and activities for children and adults to assist a full and healthy lifestyle.
Activities for children and young people, activities for people living with a disability, a wide variety of Group Fitness Classes, swimming lessons, racket and team sports, SPIN® cycle group classes, venue hire plus entertainment all come within the range of what we do.
Our aim is to work co-operatively with partner organisations to offer the best range of leisure and cultural facilities for local communities.
Activities for children include: Dance classes, football coaching, martial arts, swimming classes for babies and children, gymnastics and cheerleading. Plus birthday parties, school holidays clubs and workshops.
To see details and the full range of what we offer, please visit our website:
Nene Centre, Cedar Drive, Thrapston, NN14 4JY
Pemberton Centre, H E Bates Way, Rushden, NN10 9YP
Splash Leisure Pool, Station Road, Rushden, NN10 9SJ
Aqua Style Swimming School
Northwood and BusheySmall groups and One to One lessons for Babies, Children and Adults.
Qualified and patient teachers are in the water with beginners.
Established in 1993, we at Aqua Style are enthusiastic in teaching swimming to children from the ages of 6 months up to and including adults in very small groups or One to One. All our teachers are fully qualified and experienced.
Weekly Term Time lessons and Holiday Crash courses for babies, toddlers, children and adults take place in Northwood Middlesex and Bushey Hertfordshire.
For further information please email or contact the above number.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: www.aquaswim.org
Konfidence is your one-stop shop for Baby Swimming, Buoyancy and Beachwear essentials. Value for money and high quality products for your children, all year round. We are the designer, manufacturer and distributor of the Konfidence range. So superb customer service and top quality products are what you will receive when buying from Konfidence. Our baby swimming range is used worldwide and is recommended by many leading baby swim schools here in the UK.
Products available all year round;
- A comprehensive baby swimming range including - Babywarma™ Wetsuits, Poncho Towels, Paddler Pools Socks, Baby changers and lots more
- Swim Nappies - One size AquaNappies and NeoNappies™ (these are worn over regular swim nappies to give a double layer protection)
- Sun Protection Clothing - from 6 months including Sun suits, Hats, T-Shirts & Shorts, PLUS a longer sleeved range for even more protection.
- Konfidence Jackets & Floatsuits - helping children learn to swim with adjustable buoyancy and fun bright colours.
- Shortie Wetsuits, Warma™ Wetsuits, Beach Shoes & Micro Neo T-Shirts
- and lots, lots more
Visit us on-line today and see all the fantastic lines we have to offer.
MXT Swimming School
Established since 1990, MXT Swim is a premier swimming school teaching babies from 6 months, children up to 14 years and adults. Our unique programme is designed to produce confident and capable swimmers in a safe and fun environment.
MXT provide a fast track programme with one-to-one teaching as well as group sessions.
Each child is treated as an individual and we progress them at their own pace according to their ability.
Water confidence is nurtured by ensuring that structured lessons are fun and playful while encouraging two-way communication between teacher and child. Swimmers will achieve the highest standard of strokes to equip themselves with the skills required to enjoy all water-based activities.
Intensive swimming courses are also available during all school breaks.
Swimming lessons for babies and children in: Steyning, Chichester, Pulborough
Waterside Pool
Esplanade, Ryde PO33 1JALoughton Swimming Pool
Traps Hill, Loughton, Essex IG10 1SZRusalka Swim School
Two Riversmeet Leisure Centre
Stony Lane, Christchurch, BH23 1HWLittledown Leisure Centre
Chaseside BH7 7DXSouth Woodham Ferrers
Trinity Square, Chelmsford, CM3 5JUBlandford Leisure Centre
Milldown Road DT11 7DBHeights Leisure Centre
Broadway, Sandown PO36 9ETSplashdown Waterpark
Tower Park, Poole BH12 4NYPurbeck Sports Centre & Swimming Pool
Worgret Road, Wareham, BH20 4PHSouthend Leisure & Tennis Centre
Garon Parkm, Eastern Avenue, Southend-On-Sea, SS2 4FAThe Brentwood Centre
Doddinghurst Road , Brentwood CM15 9NNThe Brentwood Centre is a multi purpose leisure complex with comprehensive facilities.
" Where you can find something for everyone."
- 2 swimming pools providing both casual and teaching sessions.
- Children's Holiday programme running every holiday offering a variety of sports, art and young persons activities. Fully supervised.
- Sports Courses in football, badminton, squash, trampolining and volleyball to name a few.
- Club2K1 Friday evening gym club promoting a healthier lifestyle for 12-16 year olds.
- Junior circuits and Junior Yoga courses available.
- Fitness Centre with the latest technology in gym equipment. Junior memberships available.
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Customers of the retail and commercial divisions of Eurest Services recently received this communication from Jim Given.
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If you are an employee of a Eurest Services retail or commercial site, please click here to read this notice from Jim Given, which was mailed to all employee home addresses on Friday, 6/8/14.To ask specific questions, please email or phone your Area Manager, who will help you get the answers you need. For a list of FAQ's, please click here.
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Riverton FamilySearch Library
The Riverton FamilySearch Library has been very popular with local family history researchers in the south part of the Salt Lake Valley since opening its doors on June 21, 2010
The library offers a wide range of classes on family history topics. Select "Classes and Class Schedules" from the library menu for a brief description of each class and class schedules.
Group Visit Opportunities
The Riverton FamilySearch Library is pleased and eager to offer the opportunity for individuals, organizations, and others to schedule a group visit to our library. We offer a variety of options that are sure to provide interest to your group. They include a short presentation, 20-25 minutes, in one of our meeting rooms with the remainder of the time in the library. Select "Group Visits" from the library menu for details that include logistics issues, tips for a successful group visit, the group visit options, and a link to access the On-Line Registration Form.
Seminars & Workshops
On the third Saturday of each month, the library offers a free three-hour Saturday Seminar. Select "Events" from the library menu for details. On the second Saturday of each month a Boy Scout Merit Badge Workshop is presented. Select "Classes and Class Schedules" from the library menu for details.
2013 Summer Youth Conference
The Riverton FamilySearch Library is again offering a youth conference activity for wards during the summer of 2013. The 2012 conferences were enjoyed by more than 1200 youth and their leaders from about 50 wards and we felt the effort was a great success. For details and registration information for 2013 select "Youth Conference" from the library menu.
The Riverton FamilySearch Library is in the LDS Riverton Office Building at 3740 Market Center Drive in Riverton, Utah. Select "Location & Directions" from the library menu for details and directions.
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Through the activities of Extended and International Operations the impact and reach of Ferris extends beyond the main campus, an entrepreneurial view of business and curriculum development is cultivated, and support and direction is given to promote a global view for the entire Ferris community.
Ferris Statewide For those students that are rooted in their home communities too far from the main campus to commute, Ferris operates off-campus locations throughout the state, often partnering with the local community college. Currently totaling 19 sites, these locations deliver Ferris degree programs to students who would otherwise not have access to higher education. |
Ferris Online Delivering online degrees, certificates, and courses that help students balance their personal and professional lives with their desire to learn. |
Office of International Education The work of the Office of International Education is to provide support to international students, coordinate Education Abroad and exchange programs, the Intensive English Program, and sponsor programming that supports the University's goal of becoming a globally diverse and aware community. |
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Community College Leadership Doctoral Program The Ferris State University Doctorate in Community College Leadership empowers graduates to advance community colleges toward excellence and community responsiveness through exemplary leadership. |
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