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Since WWII the U.S. has had a steady decline in U.S. flagged merchant ships from about 50% of the world's cargo shipping to about 1% today. Our merchant marine has less than 10,000 mariners compared to 50,000 in 1960.
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It has been said that heroism is defined as holding on for one moment longer. A moment can save a life or change the destiny of a nation. Travis Watkins, a native Texas resident, was one such hero who took charge and held on against overwhelming odds.
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In the USA, Mothers’ Day is to celebrate and honor one’s mother and it takes multiple forms.
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First They Came is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
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H. Bentley Glass was at one time one of the most famous scientists in the nation. His life was a journey that began with missionary parents and a Texas education. Glass traveled the world, wrote volumes of books, made important scientific discoveries, and in the 1950s and 1960s, helped the entire nation start thinking about science and the ethics of the latest discoveries.
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Now that we do not build the items we import, tariffs added to the imported prices only increase the final price.
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