God speaking to Cain:  “Where is your brother?”Cain’s reply:  “Am I my brother’s keeper?”Silence.  Jesus’ question of the expert in the law after telling the story of the Good Samaritan: “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”Jesus told him, “Go and do…See More

I served as a seaman in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam war from January ’69 to November ‘70.  My first ship was the U.S.S. New Jersey BB-62.  I had been flown out to the U.S.S. Ranger CV-61 aircraft carrier from Subic Bay on a mail plane.  The Ranger was “on station” in the Tonkin Gulf and it was a way station of sorts to get personnel out to the ships in the fleet…See More