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Wilkes’ Sordoni Art Gallery reopens Friday, featuring Andy Warhol’s work

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Their view: The Iran nuclear deal is working. No need for Trump’s touch.

<p>Take a little trip to Valley Forge in January. Hold a musket ball in your fingers and imagine it piercing your flesh and breaking a bone or two.</p><p>Then take a knee.</p><p>Then take a knee to Normandy where man after American man stormed the beach, even as the one in front of him was shot to pieces, the very sea stained with American blood.</p><p>Take a knee in the sweat soaked jungles of Vietnam, from Khe San to Saigon &#8230; anywhere will do. Americans died in all those jungles.</p><p>Take another knee in the blood drenched sands of Fallujah in 110 degree heat. You&#8217;re on your own. There&#8217;s a lot of places to take a knee.</p><p>Americans have given their lives all over the world. When you use the banner under which they fought as a source for your displeasure, you dishonor the memories of those who bled for the very freedoms you have.</p><p>American men and women delivering the real fight against those who chose to harm us, blazing a path so you would have the right to &#8220;take a knee.&#8221;</p><p>If you really feel the need to take a knee, come with me to church on Sunday, and we&#8217;ll both kneel before Almighty God. We&#8217;ll thank him for preserving this country for as long as He has.</p><p>We&#8217;ll beg forgiveness for our ingratitude for all He has provided us. We&#8217;ll appeal to Him for understanding and wisdom. We&#8217;ll pray for liberty and justice for all. But there will be no protest. There will only be gratitude for His provision and a plea for His continued grace and mercy.</p><p><strong>Peggy Bostwick </strong></p><p>Pocono Pines</p><style>
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Your view: Take a knee in prayer, not in protest