Friday, December 6, 2019

CHRISTMAS TRUCE 1914

CHRISTMAS TRUCE 1914
https://www.facebook.com/Dodinsky/videos/1181835888536478/
Starting on Christmas Eve, many German and British troops sang Christmas carols to each other across the lines, and at certain points the Allied soldiers even heard brass bands joining the Germans in their joyous singing.

At the first light of dawn on Christmas Day, some German soldiers emerged from their trenches and approached the Allied lines across no-man’s-land, calling out “Merry Christmas” in their enemies’ native tongues. At first, the Allied soldiers feared it was a trick, but seeing the Germans unarmed they climbed out of their trenches and shook hands with the enemy soldiers. The men exchanged presents of cigarettes and plum puddings and sang carols and songs. There was even a documented case of soldiers from opposing sides playing a good-natured game of soccer (Football).
Some soldiers used this short-lived ceasefire for a more somber task: the retrieval of the bodies of fellow combatants who had fallen within the no-man’s land between the lines.
The so-called Christmas Truce of 1914 came only five months after the outbreak of war in Europe and was one of the last examples of the outdated notion of chivalry between enemies in warfare. It was never repeated—future attempts at holiday ceasefires were quashed by officers’ threats of disciplinary action—but it served as heartening proof, however brief, that beneath the brutal clash of weapons, the soldiers’ essential humanity endured.
Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the majority of German troops engaged in World War I cease firing their guns and artillery and commence to sing Christmas carols. At certain points along the eastern and western fronts, the soldiers of Russia, France, and Britain even heard brass bands joining the Germans in their joyous singing. At the first light of dawn, many of the German soldiers emerged from their trenches and approached the Allied lines across no-man's-land, calling out "Merry Christmas" in their enemies' native tongues. At first, the Allied soldiers feared it was a trick, but seeing the Germans unarmed they climbed out of their trenches and shook hands with the enemy soldiers. The men exchanged presents of cigarettes and plum puddings and sang carols and songs. There was even a documented case of soldiers from opposing sides playing a good-natured game of soccer. The so-called Christmas Truce of 1914 came only five months after the outbreak of war in Europe and was one of the last examples of the outdated notion of chivalry between enemies in warfare. In 1915, the bloody conflict of World War I erupted in all its technological fury, and the concept of another Christmas Truce became unthinkable.
By Richard Abbenbroek.

Thursday, December 5, 2019

THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT!

THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT!
Hearing that JESUS had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:“Teacher, which is the greatest Commandment in the Law?”
JESUS replied: “‘Love the LORD your GOD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest Commandment and the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two Commandments.” AMEN!
Posted and Photo by Sir Richard.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

THE REAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY

THE REAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY https://youtu.be/wcq7Ph00jNI
IN PENNSYLVANIA VIA GRAVE SEARCH.
A Interesting History Posted by
Richard Abbenbroek.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

IF WE THINK

IF WE THINK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UQ_xxFFVbg
If we think that we have not much in common,
then we are both missing the message.

If we see not, what we can all see,
then we are just looking in different directions.

If our paths have just push passed each other,
through the deepest of snow,
then we are lost and know not where to go.

If we both believe in our differences,
then inside our hearts we know that for each, what is true.

If we can see, that we are as diverse as snowflakes,
then our individualities are assured for me and you.

If we think, each cannot feel love, joy and pain,
or breath, drink the waters, plus live on this small planet.

Then we are each just hiding behind our own,
self-made curtains of mistrust and shame.

If we think that we have not much in common,
then the words "mankind" are just hollow sounds,
as we will continue to hold each other and all in distain.
If we think...
Written by and photo taken by Sir Richard.
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.ca/

Sunday, December 1, 2019

A CANADIAN WINTER POEM

A CANADIAN WINTER POEM
https://picasaweb.google.com/102862599053394766135/Nov2012FrostBySirRichard?authkey=Gv1sRgCOTYspHpnrjc8wE#slideshow/5813492267866038018

It is winter in Canada
and the gentle breezes blow.
Seventy miles an hour,
at thirty-five below.

Oh, how I love Canada,
when the snow's up to your butt.
When you take a breath of winter,
and your nose gets frozen shut.

Yes, the weather here is wonderful.
So I guess I'll hang around,
For I could never leave Canada,cause I am frozen to the ground...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpHiAmL8-b0
Poem written or Photos taken by,
Richard Abbenbroek aka Sir Richard
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.ca/

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

WAR DOGS

WAR DOGS
In ancient times, dogs, often large mastiff- or molosser-type breeds, would be strapped with armor or spiked collars and sent into battle to attack the enemy. This strategy was used by various civilizations, such as the Romans and the Greeks. While not as common as in previous centuries, modern militaries continue to employ dogs in an attack role. SOCOM forces of the US military still use dogs in raids for apprehending fleeing enemies or prisoners, or for searching areas too difficult or dangerous for human soldiers (such as crawl spaces).

Another program attempted during World War II was suggested by a Swiss citizen living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. William A. Prestre proposed using large dogs to kill Japanese soldiers. He convinced the military to lease an entire island in the Mississippi to house the training facilities. There the army hoped to train as many as two million dogs. The idea was to begin island invasions with landing craft releasing thousands of dogs against the Japanese defenders, then followed up by troops as the Japanese defenders scattered in confusion. One of the biggest problems encountered was getting Japanese soldiers to train the dogs with, because few Japanese soldiers were being captured. Eventually, Japanese-American soldiers volunteered for the training. Another large problem was with the dogs; either they were too docile, did not properly respond to their beach crossing training, or were terrified by shellfire. After millions of dollars were spent with inconclusive results, the program was abandoned.

The Soviet Union used dogs for anti-tank purposes beginning in the 1930s. Earlier anti-tank dogs were fitted with tilt-rod mines and trained to run beneath enemy tanks, which would detonate the mines automatically. However, the dogs were trained with stationary Russian tanks and very seldom ran under the moving tanks, instead they were shot as they ran beside the moving tanks. When both Russian and German tanks were present, the dogs would preferentially run towards the familiar Russian tanks.

This info written and posted by,
Sir Richard...
Man is the beast, not the Dogs!

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

TO A NEW FRIEND WHO SHARED

TO A NEW FRIEND WHO SHARED HER NEW HORROR STORY OF HER NEW CANCER WITH ME!
There is HOPE and I felt like you once! Went through what you are going through once and was once, given only one year to live! That is what I was like 10 years ago this year! My hope for you is that you will one day be in remission from cancer like myself too! Sincerely yours with Love. From Richard Abbenbroek in Calgary Alberta Canada and this is my prayer from me to you and not just praying once. AMEN!
https://youtu.be/D5sJSBMgyl8
Written and Photo by Sir Richard
Song "Pull Me Through" by Maggie Rose.

Monday, November 18, 2019

WAR WHAT IT REALY IS!

WAR WHAT IT REALLY IS!
War is really a vast open air factory where the hours are long, unions not permitted and safety conditions routinely flouted! No more people died on this planet then would have died if they were not killed in a war. Only their descendants were eliminated, along with all other future possibilities...
Written by Richard Abbenbroek
Remember Canadian
Veterans This Week Of November 2019
https://youtu.be/LtU6y6xnxiA
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
https://youtu.be/FePTpBP8vKM
Seán Ó Duibhir A' Ghleanna · Máiréad Nesbitt
Posted by Richard Abbenbroek.
REMEMBER!

Sunday, November 17, 2019

FIGHTER PILOT GORDON HILL

FIGHTER PILOT GORDON HILL 
- such an ambassador for air force veterans. http://calgaryherald.com/…/after-76-years-wwii-fighter-pilo…
CALGARY'S HAWKER HURRICANE @ THE HANGAR FLIGHT MUSEUM
https://youtu.be/x1PFaYKu5CY
Posted by Richard Abbenbroek...

Saturday, November 16, 2019

CANADIAN HAWKER HURRICANE 5389

RICHARD ABBENBROEK
With the HANGAR FLIGHT MUSEUM of Calgary Alberta Canada.
Just Restored CANADIAN HAWKER HURRICANE 5389.

https://youtu.be/0-fpaQvQSLA 
The newest addition to the Citizen's of Calgary’s Hangar Flight Museum was unveiled at a ceremony on Wednesday November 6th 2019.
The plane is a Second World War Hawker Hurricane that was built in Ontario Canada in 1942.
#5389 Flew on the West Coast and in Calgary and Saskatchewan.
5389:
- Built at Canadian Car and Foundry, Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay), 1942. The factory is now a National Historic Site
- Production overseen by Elsie MacGill
- 5389 stays in Canada- including stops in Calgary, Lethbridge, Boundary Bay, Patricia Bay, Yorkton SK
- Pilots include Don Laubman, Gordon Hill, Fred Sproule
- Involved in West coast defense, and locating and destroying Japanese fugo balloon bombs
- Surplus and bought by farmer in Saskatchewan
- Brought to Calgary by Lynn Garrison and co. to start Air Museum of Canada; collection later transferred to City of Calgary, now taken care of by Hangar Flight Museum
- Restoration 2012-2019- Calgary Mosquito Society, Historic Aviation Services Inc in Wetaskiwin
- Many original parts
Hurricanes:
- Designed in 1934 by Sydney Camm
- RAF had first Hurricane squadron by 1937
- 5389 not used in Battle of Britain, but Hurricanes were very important- more Hurricanes than Spitfires
- Author Roald Dahl was a Hurricane ace
- 14,583 Hurricanes were built; 25 countries
Connections to other exhibits:
- 401 Squadron in Battle of Britain- Canadian squadron
- Willie McKnight flew Hurricanes
- Virtual Reality: Rapid Fire: History of Flight features WWII aircraft including Hurricanes
- Elsie oversaw the design and construction to the Maple Leaf II Trainer
There is a great blog written by Clarence Simonsen with extensive research about Hurricane 5389. Clarence is a former museum volunteer, and has done a lot of nose art, including most of our examples and those at Nanton and the Military Museums: 
The Calgary Mosquito Society has put together several great videos about Hurricanes in general, and 5389: https://youtu.be/pk1CUzJGB-4
Info about Elsie MacGill: https://youtu.be/WZoulEgf348
Research by Caitlin Reid.
Posted by Richard Abbenbroek.
 
 
 
 

 

Friday, November 15, 2019

WORLD WAR 1 ARMISTICE MORNING November 11, 1918.

WORLD WAR 1 ARMISTICE MORNING November 11, 1918.
The Victors and the Vanquished
Taken on 11 November 1918 in the forest of Compiegne after reaching an agreement for the armistice that ended World War I.

THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE:
At 5:00 on Monday morning, November 11, 1918, nine grim men agreed to sign the papers laid out on a table in a railroad carriage parked in a forest 37 miles north of Paris. At 5:12, two French generals, three British naval officers, two German politicians, a German general and a German naval officer, started signing the Armistice which would end the World War that had raged for more than four years. The last signature was in place by 5:20, making it official: at 11:00, all fighting would cease. By 5:40 AM, the news of the signing had reached the capital cities where impromptu celebrations broke out. Big Ben rang out in London for the first time since 1914.

Crowds in Philadelphia:
WW1: The announcing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, was the occasion for a monster celebration in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thousands massed on all sides of the replica of the Statue of Liberty on Broad Street, and cheered unceasingly.

Business as Usual:
Although it took longer for the soldiers in the trenches to get the news, the generals along the Western Front knew the Armistice would be signed at 5:00 and that fighting would stop six hours later. Until then, they were determined to gain favorable positions, should the cease fire fail, and, not incidentally, to continue to punish the Germans up until the very last minute.

U.S. and French Generals:
Under American General Pershing launched attacks as late as 10:30 AM. Some French units were ordered to attack at 9:00 AM and cease at 11:00. The British attacked, relishing the idea of recapturing Mons, Belgium on the last day of the war. Mons was the site of their first battle and first defeat in August 1914. Artillery batteries fired salvo after salvo into the German lines simply to avoid having to haul the unused shells away.

11,000 Casualties That Morning:
On that morning of November 11, while the world started to celebrate and word continued to filter down to the troops that the fighting would cease at 11:00, there were almost 11,000 casualties, including almost 2,700 killed.

British Empire Losses:
British Empire losses that morning were around 2,400. Forty-year-old Private George Edwin Ellison was the last British soldier to die at 9:30 as he scouted the outskirts of Mons at the same place where the first British soldier died. George was one of the few “old soldiers” who had been shipped across the channel in 1914 and had fought at Mons in September of that year. Against all odds he had survived over four years in the trenches to be killed 90 minutes before the end of the fighting. The last Canadian to die was 25 year old Private George Lawrence Price. He was shot by a sniper at 10:58AM.

French Losses:
The French losses that morning were estimated at 1,170. Augustin Trebuchon was the last French soldier to die. He was shot at 10:50 as he carried the message to the front that hot soup would be served after 11:00. It was decided by the French leaders that no French soldiers were killed that day so the death records of all French soldiers killed on November 11 stated that they had died on November 10.

American Losses:
American losses that morning were estimated as high as 3,500. Some of Pershing's generals saw a last chance at glory and, believing the Armistice was letting the Germans off the hook, Pershing did nothing to dissuade them. US Marines suffered more than 1,100 casualties trying to cross the River Meuse. Had they been allowed to wait until 11:00, they could have safely crossed the river with no casualties. Henry Gunther was the last American and the last Allied soldier to be killed. He and others advanced through fog toward two German machine guns. The Germans fired a burst over their heads and the Americans dropped to the ground. The Germans, knowing that it was almost 11:00, assumed that would be the end of it, but Gunther got back up and started running at them. The Germans shouted and waved at him to stop, but when he didn't, they fired a burst of five shots. One of them struck Gunther in the left temple, killing him instantly. It was 10:59, 60 seconds before the end of the war.

German Losses:
German losses that morning were about 4,100 as many of them were retreating and therefore more exposed. Surviving German records are not clear about the last German killed in the war, but the last German (and last soldier) killed may have been a Lieutenant Tomas. After 11:00, he approached some American soldiers to let them know that, since the war was over, he and his men were vacating a house and it would be available. Unfortunately, no one had informed the Americans of the Armistice and they shot him.

Abnormal Wastage:
During the war, the British, with their flair for euphemism, came up with a term for soldiers killed, wounded, or captured outside set-piece battles: normal wastage. During some weeks more than 5,000 British casualties were classified as normal wastage. On the morning of November 11, 1918, with only a few hours to endure and when all the generals could have taken a nap, nearly 11,000 men on both sides were killed, wounded, captured...wasted.

Payback:
The harshness of the terms of the Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles that followed ensured that there would be a World War Twenty-two years later, Hitler and his generals forced the French to sign surrender papers in the very same railroad carriage at the very same spot that the Armistice of November 11, 1918 was signed.

The Victors 22 Years Later:
The Fate of the Railroad Carriage
When the Allies were closing in near the end of World War Two, Hitler had the railroad carriage that had been used in the German surrender in 1918 and the French surrender in 1940 blown to pieces, fearing the humiliation of having to surrender in that same carriage.
Today November 10th 2018 Merkel said she was moved by the ceremony and described Macron's invitation as a "very symbolic gesture."

101 YEARS LATER:
In a powerful show of unity, Macron and Merkel sat inside the reconstructed teak-lined rail wagon in which the peace charter was signed and looked through a book of remembrance and each signed the book.

EPITAPH:
"Europe has been at peace for 73 years. It is at peace because we want it to be, because Germany and France want peace," Macron told several youngsters, with Merkel at his side, referring to the peace since the end of World War Two in 1945.

"And so the message, if we want to live up to the sacrifice of those soldiers who said 'Never again!', is to never yield to our weakest instincts, nor to efforts to divide us."
Written by Richard Abbenbroek and Some Photos by Richard Abbenbroek.
 
 
 

Thursday, November 14, 2019

HAVING A BAD DAY? WELL WATCH THIS

HAVING A BAD DAY? WELL WATCH THIS 
https://youtu.be/xUjsJPd49ak
AND YOU MAY HAVE A THOUGHT CHANGE?
Posted and Photo of and by SIR RICHARD.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

THIS IS NO DRILL AND REAL!

THIS IS NO DRILL AND REAL!
A VERY RARE PIECE OF SOUND TAPE, RECORDED FROM GEO PHONES THAT WERE NORMALLY USED TO LOCATE HIDDEN ENEMY ARTILLERY BATTERIES THROUGH SOUND LOCATION.
https://codatocoda.bandcamp.com/…/iwm-ww1-armistice-interpr…
THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM TAPE CAPTURES THE END OF WW1 ON THE 11th MONTH, OF THE 11th DAY AT 11 AM. 1918.
Posted by Sir Richard.

Monday, November 11, 2019

"THE ONE"

 "THE ONE" https://youtu.be/Bkb2Wd09Iv4
Written and sung by 16 year old Bailey James and the Bailey James Gang.
Nashville Tennessee.
Posted by Sir Richard as my Lady Joyce Spence is in it. 
As I Am The One I Hope She's Praying For.

Sunday, November 10, 2019

RICHARD’S CANCER REMISSION STORY

 RICHARD’S CANCER REMISSION STORY
Thank YOU FATHER GOD for stopping my Soft Tissue Sarcoma Cancer!
Ten years of remission this year!
WOW what a miracle!!
As the Doctor's only gave me one year to live!
I send my Gratitude and Love to You FATHER GOD, JESUS CHRIST the SON, the HOLY SPIRIT - AMEN!
Sincerely from, Richard Abbenbroek.
And now for a song that explains how
I felt about when I had cancer:
Written and Photo and Cancer by
Richard Abbenbroek



Saturday, November 9, 2019

EVIE DOG WAITS

EVIE DOG WAITS
Evie Dog waits for her girlfriend Ruby Dog to come over for play date in the back yard. https://youtu.be/Wy0RGsd2-JA
Photo by Daddy Richard.

Friday, November 8, 2019

MOMENTS OF LOVE!

MOMENTS OF LOVE!
https://youtu.be/Soe7KVYdV2c
Moments of Love or two throughout my life, has carried me through.
Cherished, comforting, from deep inside me, as a warm fire it does glow.
All my Moments of Love, I think of each one, at least every day often I do.
These Moments of Love, are undiminished, even as I become older, as I do grow now…
Combined together with my Moments of Love, beg me to wish;
“That A Moment Of Love” may befall each and every one of you!
As this GOD’s gift really to each of us is LOVE for that is His greatest gift of all.
This Moment of Love is now over so again,
as I travel out into this Winters Snow.
May there also be a Moment of Love, somewhere out there in store for you!
https://youtu.be/haZPPBJC8Ic
I dedicate this to my Joyce and best Friend and Wife. Who went with me and our eldest Grandaughter Skye to this concert.
With Love and all that Heaven will allow!
Written and photo by her Sir Richard
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.ca/

Thursday, November 7, 2019

SKY PILOT

 SKY PILOT
https://youtu.be/mQgB6AHD8fM
You're soldiers of GOD, you must understand
The fate of your country is in your young hands
May GOD give you strength
Do your job real well
If it all was worth it
Only time it will tell
In the morning they return
With tears in their eyes
The stench of death drifts up to the skies
A soldier so ill looks at the sky pilot
Remembers the words
"THOU SHALT NOT KILL."
Posted by Sir Richard.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

CHRIST JESUS

CHRIST JESUS
Thank you for all that we have in Canada. May Your Grace & Peace be shared with all People and I pray that they all have a good night’s rest.
As I also ask that You GOD, that like me please bestow Your blessings on them to!
So tonight, I shall lay me down in GOD's Peace & take my rest; for it is thy LORD GOD, that makest me crave to dwell all the days of my life & forever in thy house, within Your Love & Safety my LORD GOD. Amen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju8cy0O4S8U
Written and Photo by Richard.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

FREEDOM OF SPEECH!

FREEDOM OF SPEECH!
On this 11th Month, on 11th Day at the 11th Hour.
We Remember the many sacrifices for Freedom! LEST WE FORGET!

BECAUSE Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one's opinions and ideas using one's body and property to anyone who is willing to receive them. The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used. In practice, the right to freedom of speech is a right for any individual in any country and this right is commonly subject to limitations, such as with libel, slander, obscenity for example inciting ethnic hatred, copyright violation, or violence against another for any reason!
FREEDOM

A CLIP FROM THE MOVIE "V":
https://youtu.be/uW6HbZXI9Y0
V: I can assure you that I mean you no harm
Evey: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form…following the function of “what”, and what I am is…a man in a mask
Evey: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I’m not questioning… your powers of observation, I’m merely remarking on the paradox… of asking a masked man… who he is.
Evey: Oh…right.
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character…of this dramatis persona.
Voila! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation, of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified…and has vowed to vanquish…these venal and virulent…vermin van-guarding vice…and vouchsafing… the violently vicious…and veracious violation…of violition!
The only verdict is vengeance…a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such… shall one day vindicate…the vigilant…and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage…veers most verbose, so let me simply add…that it is my very good honor to meet you…
and you may call me "V".
Evey: Are you like a crazy person?
V: I’m quite sure they will say so. But to whom I might ask am I speaking?
Evey: I’m Evey
V: Evey? E.V. Of course.
https://youtu.be/rynxqdNMry4
by Sir Richard...
Sent to you all with LOVE and to all I Pray that heaven will allow!
IN FREEDOM
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Monday, November 4, 2019

TO A NEW FRIEND

TO A NEW FRIEND WHO SHARED HER NEW HORROR STORY 
OF HER NEW CANCER WITH ME!
There is HOPE and I felt like you once! Went through what you are going through once and was once, given only one year to live! That is what I was like 10 years ago this year! My hope for you is that you will one day be in remission from cancer like myself too! Sincerely yours with Love. From Richard Abbenbroek in Calgary Alberta Canada and this is my prayer from me to you and not just praying once. AMEN!
 
https://youtu.be/D5sJSBMgyl8
Written and Photo by Sir Richard
Song "Pull Me Through" by Maggie Rose.

Sunday, November 3, 2019

REMEMBRANCE DAY NOVEMBER 11 2019

CANADIAN REMEMBRANCE DAY WEEK REMEMBRANCE DAY NOVEMBER 11 2019
Calgary's War Dead - Remembrance Day Week November 1st - 11th 2019 https://picasaweb.google.com/…/CalgarySWarDeadRemembranceDa…
O Eternal God,
Who has set us in this beautiful land of Canada, we remember every day.
With grateful hearts, the men and women of this nation, who have sacrificed, died, and are currently, serving on peace missions, so we might enjoy this land in peace, with freedom and justice for all.
We remember their deeds of courage, their acts of valour and their willingness to sacrifice, though engaged in wars not of their own making.
We remember that they counted the loss of their own lives to be a reasonable price to pay for the principles by which we live in Canada yesterday and today.
For this their sacrifice, for the peace they won, for the remembrance of their lives, we give thanks.
We pray in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen…
Remembrance Day 2019 - How Will You Remember Them?
 
https://youtu.be/NPk611ecrrA
Posted By Sir Richard http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Saturday, November 2, 2019

TODAY I AM IN 10 YEARS IN CANCER REMISSION!

TODAY I AM IN 10 YEARS IN CANCER REMISSION!  
https://youtu.be/ToY99HhOx2Q
When you have Cancer you find out quickly, all who really Love You.
Yet at the same time there are those who surprise you, because they do not.
Bask in the ones who do Love You, for they are blessings whom will always help you through.
Forgive the ones, who do not, as they are but wheat chaff to be scattered in the wind…
Also, Cancer Battles are very lonely for they are just like a really scary Roller Coaster ride, that has you the lone rider, of which you are totally terrified on!
To date in regards with my Cancer Battle, I am tenaciously holding my ground.
My Faith though battered, seems like the Biblical reading from the SON;
Acts 9:16 “I will show him how much he must suffer in My name”.
So, today I find myself “Many Years Cancer Free” for many sadly the Cancer Battle goes on and on,
“His will be done.”
To those who Love me – Thank You!
For those who abandoned me; I forgive you!
Sincerely, with Love to you!
Written and Photo by Sir Richard…
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Friday, November 1, 2019

REMEMBER

REMEMBER
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
https://youtu.be/FePTpBP8vKM
Seán Ó Duibhir A' Ghleanna · Máiréad Nesbitt
Posted by Sir Richard.
Photo is Richard Abbenbroek.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

TODAY IS MY 15th CHRISTIAN BIRTHDAY!

TODAY IS MY 15th CHRISTIAN BIRTHDAY!
https://youtu.be/-anrM9wl0T8
Today is my Christian Birthday, for on October 30th 2004 is the day.
For which I was reborn, in the name of JESUS CHRIST.
I Praise our LORD GOD, as thy humble knight remembers this 15th year of my rebirth, for I write:

AS I DRAW CLOSER AND CLOSER HOME
Lord each day, is fully lived as only You would wish of thee.
I take in each second at a time, each minute, every hour,
another day, another month, yet another year,
of Your daily blessings to me.

My Love for all Your things, all creatures great and small, sunrise,
sunset, a clear mountain stream, my fellow man and woman.
A Love which only You can bestow on us all.
A Love if we want, we can actually all share.
As I rejoice in Your name; O My Lord GOD!

For in the future, when my moment draws near.
As thy humble knight in full but battered armour did repent,
on bent knees.
So through You, I shall and have been,
made righteous, before Your Holy Throne.

For thy humble knight's heart is about to explode.
As I draw closer and closer to home.
Amen...
https://youtu.be/DPHh3nMMu-I
Written and Photo by,
Sir Richard
A knight in thy service of the King of Kings!

THIS KNIGHT’S OATH:
Have nigh fear in the face of your enemies.
Be brave and upright, as GOD might Love thee.
Speak the truth always.
Safeguard the helpless!
Do No Wrong…
In the name of GOD the Father, CHRIST JESUS and the HOLY SPIRIT,
Amen.
https://youtu.be/D2BXeZCDTgA
P.S.: "GOD will never take you, where the Grace of GOD will not protect you!"

Saturday, October 26, 2019

THE WEIGHT - PLAYING FOR CHANGE.

THE WEIGHT - PLAYING FOR CHANGE
 https://youtu.be/ph1GU1qQ1zQ
See who is in this one!
Posted by Sir Richard.
Along with musicians from 5 continents, we’re honored to have taken part in this Playing For Change “The Weight”!

We’re excited to share our newest Song Around The World, “The Weight,” featuring musicians performing together across 5 continents. Great songs can travel everywhere bridging what divides us and inspiring us to see how easily we all get along when the music plays. Special thanks to our partner Cambria® for helping to make this possible and to Robbie Robertson, Ringo Starr and all the musicians for joining us in celebrating 50 years of this classic song.
Posted by Sir Richard

Friday, October 25, 2019

A DARK ROOM NOT OF THEIR CHOOSING

A DARK ROOM NOT OF THEIR CHOOSING
https://youtu.be/iXx3hgBvako
Remember as a kid, the feeling of daring yourself to walk across a dark room? In a way you were excited because you know, you really do know, that there's nothing there to hurt you. Some people get to choose their dark rooms. They get to look for places where the fear is only skin-deep but some people are nowhere near that lucky, as sadly the choice is made for them. I have never known what to say to parents and family of murdered loved ones. The only thing that I can think of, is to offer them my prayers so that they and their families are given strength as well as comfort during such a difficult time. While they walk through their dark rooms, not of their own choosing.
To those who have lost so much. With Love and all that heaven will allow!
Written and Photo by Sir Richard...
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