Two Kinds of Courage
Theme for this Week: It's Mutual
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: The human body has many parts [that] make up only one body. So it is with the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:12).
Bonus Reading: 1 Cor. 12:13-21
Harry Semmes, a prominent patent attorney. also fought in both World Wars. His fearlessness in combat won him two Distinguished Service Crosses in the first, and a third in the second war. In the early 1950s, he headed a commission on peacetime military training, creating and defending reserve training.
Meanwhile, President Harry Truman had ordered the army to integrate white and black soldiers. But the army was dragging its feet. Semmes was tapped to be an informal advocate for speeding up the process.
Although he was a Southerner by birth, Semmes's experience with the segregated 92nd Division in Italy had convinced him that an integrated army was the only policy for America. "I met many brave black soldiers in that division. But overall their performance on the battlefield was below par. They didn't trust their officers. They suspected they were going to be used as cannon fodder. I saw firsthand the terrible spiritual wounds segregation inflicts."
For over a year, Semmes worked with the Pentagon to develop procedures that led to the gradual integration of the U.S. Army. He never received a line of credit for this quiet, largely unofficial job.
Thomas Fleming in Lights Along the Way
My Response:
One barrier I need to help remove is .
Thought to Apply:
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
John F. Kennedy (35th U.S. president)
Adapted from: Lights Along the Way (Morehouse, 1999).
For your convenience, Lights Along the Way is available in the ChristianityToday.com bookstore.
Copyright © 2001 by the author or Christianity Today, Inc./Men of Integrity magazine.
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Dear Father: Help us, without ignoring our differences, to achieve equality by realizing that we each offer something the other person needs.
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