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"Boots" is a lyrical, narrative poem from the perspective of a Maine Coon Cat rescued one winter by a boy, Johnny, who grows up to be a young man enlisting in the service. Johnny comes back wounded in many ways, one of them being an amputee with phantom limb syndrome. Boots tries to help his owner as best he can by scratching the prosthetic leg that seems to pain Johnny so, and ponders the winters long ago when they used to play in the snow together. After our global campaign against COVID, I couldn't help but feel the poem had a renewed sense of meaning to many of the walking wounded who served their communities in the face of COVID. So it is a poem I hope in memorial to veterans of wars military and medical.

410Extradition — Conditions of — Trial for Offence Other than That for which Extradition Granted.

Discusses the clash between motherhood & soldiering present since the US passed a law allowing women with dependent children to enlist in the military, using the case of Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson to illustrate. At issue is why the US military is allowed to engage in a "morally questionable" policy of recruiting mothers or soon-to-be mothers. It is contended that this practice exists as a function of US cultural values & because the military as well as political leaders have remained silent on the subject; further, there seems to be an activist & academic blindness to the moral distinction between women & mothers. Of particular interest is why progressives & conservatives bear responsibility for the fate of military mothers as represented by Hutchinson's story. Attention is given to some of the empirical evidence indicating the impact of military service on mothers & their children, & to the tricky issue of distinguishing women service members with children from those without them. D. Edelman

Despite much progress over the last sixty years, the US Army has struggled to find and train its' personnel in a sufficient moral framework. In war time this struggle has been seen with the senseless abuse of Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. This is a grave concern for many including Christians. As a Christian and US Army Chaplain over the last fifteen years, I address this problem. Beginning with an exposition of controversial passages in the New Testament and the early church, an intellectual space will be created where the Christian faith and military service can function together. Just War Christian Discipleship, a certain way of appropriating the Augustinian view of Just War Tradition, presents and develops a Christian solution for proper response of the church faced with a nation considering, conducting, and ending a war. But this framework can also be used to help Christian US Army soldiers function in a one year deployment and combat mission. By combining the Just War (CD) framework with the seven virtues espoused by Thomas Aquinas and placing theses virtues as possible guides to practice the criteria of Just War (CD) within a year deployment and combat mission, the framework of Just War (CD) can be expanded to facilitate a better Christian witness.

Another thrilling Zac Power adventure! How cool to be pulled out of maths class to go on Spy Boot Camp! But when a top GIB spy goes missing, Zac faces the biggest test of his spy career yet ...