Help for Afghanistan
Help for Afghanistan
Billy Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse was sending extra chartered planes to Afghanistan to evacuate people that our US Gov’t can’t or wouldn’t evacuate, including getting them to the airport.
They are helping Christians and other Afghans in need with food and supplies and this help can continue after the evacuation is done.
Please join me in giving to them now!
American Veterans Volunteering to save Afghans
A group of volunteer Afghanistan veterans smuggled into Kabul this week to save hundreds of Afghan Special Forces troops and their families by getting them to the airport to be put on flights out of the city.
The men made their own way into Kabul after watching the bungled evacuation from afar. The ad-hoc group have been able to get more than 600 vulnerable Afghans to the airport to be put on flights.
According to members of the group who spoke to ABC News, the week-long rescue operation, which was dubbed the ‘Pineapple Express’, was carried out by a group of special ops veterans including retired Green Berets and SEAL commanders. This group of highly trained US military veterans secretly rescued hundreds of allied operatives in Afghanistan, all volunteering because otherwise these allies would reportedly have been left for dead.
List of links to many other organizations helping needy Afghans, including for evacuation
Several other organizations that provide assistance in Afghanistan are calling for aid during this time. Some areas are impossible for humanitarians to reach, especially right now, thus it helps to support organizations that have pathways to provide in-person and remote support already. Below are a few of these organizations
The Charge of the Light Brigade.
1.
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Charge,” was the captain’s cry;
Their’s not to reason why,
Their’s not to make reply,
Their’s but to do and die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
2.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well;
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell,
Rode the six hundred.
3.
Flash’d all their sabres bare,
Flash’d all at once in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder’d:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Fiercely the line they broke;
Strong was the sabre-stroke;
Making an army reel
Shaken and sunder’d.
Then they rode back, but not,
Not the six hundred.
4.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
They that had struck so well
Rode thro’ the jaws of Death,
Half a league back again,
Up from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
5.
Honour the brave and bold!
Long shall the tale be told,
Yea, when our babes are old—
How they rode onward.
THE END.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1854
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a failed military action involving the British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. Lord Raglanhad intended to send the Light Brigade to prevent the Russians from removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions, a task for which the light cavalry was well-suited.
However, there was miscommunication in the chain of command and the Light Brigade was instead sent on a frontal assault against a different artillery battery, one well-prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire. The Light Brigade reached the battery under withering direct fire suffering massive casualties and scattered some of the gunners, even breached the line, but they were forced to retreat immediately back again through the same battlefield of cannonfire.
The assault ended with very high British casualties and no decisive gains.
Note: The battlefield length through which the brigade advanced and then retreated under staggering cannonfire– both ways– half a league, is a mile and a half, 2,640 yards or 26 football field lengths. The brigade consisted of about 667 horse-mounted cavalrymen.
Biden’s cowardly abandonment of Afghanistan will live in infamy forever like the Charge of the Light Brigade.
‘Dramatic spread’ of COVID-19 in Yakima Valley prompts pleas for vaccinations, masks
The Yakima Health District reported 214 new COVID cases and 63 hospitalizations Wednesday, totals that echoed January’s surge. Hospital officials said there are long wait times in emergency departments, and capacity is limited with staff out for COVID-19 protocols.
Dr. Marty Brueggerman, chief medical officer, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. Evan Abel, Yakima Herald
“The vast majority of these patients being treated are unvaccinated and we are seeing younger and younger patients suffering complications and needing acute medical care,” Rhonda Wellner, system director of quality for Astria Health, said in a statement. “With the increase of COVID patients in our systems, we are also seeing an increase of wait times in our emergency departments, an increased need for inpatient beds, and challenges with transferring patients who are needing higher level of care or specialized care.”
Please, please, get your vaccination!
Excerpted from Yakima Herald Republic for Aug. 25, 2021 by Tammy Ayer.
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Dave Bunting, Aug. 30, 2021
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