A Son of A Refugee’s Gratitude for Christians in America’s Mid-West

 By Slimjim - Posted at The Domain for Truth:

These days as some of us pray for Afghanistan and wanting to find out more news of what’s going on there on the ground it can be frustrating with how little we know, and what we do know is distressing.

Its also been a time that I’ve seen some reflect back the last 20 years since 9/11.

For me it led me to think also about my own family’s history as the events in Afghanistan have been compared to the fall of Saigon. I thought I share this, in gratitude to God, and the kindness of American Christians in America’s Mid-West. By the way this post isn’t political partisan politics, nor a support for interventionist political policy, but simply stories of the human experience, and thoughts about with God and also his work through Christians in America.

My mom’s side of the family had family members that were involved militarily with America’s secret War in South East Asia against the Communists while the Vietnam War was raging on. Some of you readers know a lot of history and would know that the American fight against Communism wasn’t just in Vietnam but also it involved secretly fighting in neighboring countries.

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