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Army veterans Jean and Wade Sinclair once took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Now they are middle-aged public servants who haven't sparred with anyone but each other in decades. Their home in central Florida is nowhere near the halls of power, but they can't just sit around and do nothing while their country begins to resemble an enemy they once fought.

Visit Time to Travel, where history lives. Experience nineteenth-century Richmond before the Civil War. Live two weeks with our historical patrons in an authentic antebellum home. Logan Richardson manages the Richmond franchise of Time to Travel, a holiday experience that allows guests to spend two weeks in the 1850s. But guests don't always follow the rules. When Logan travels to 1851 to troubleshoot a guest issue, danger follows him back to his present time and threatens his family. Can Logan use Time to Travel's portal to stop the threat before time runs out?

This is a fictionalized biography of the wife of the reformer Dr. Martin Luther. In the author's words, he hopes that "people may learn to know the wife of its greatest man—not by name only, but as her husband's 'helpmeet,' in the truest sense of the word, as a pattern of domestic virtue, and as a pearl among women."

Lawrence Bass escaped his burning ship at Guadalcanal, participated in the invasion of Rendova and in retaking the Philippines, dropped off Marines at Iwo Jima, and watched as they raised the flag on Suribachi. He enlisted in the US Navy in 1940 and helped to make history over the next six years of his enlistment. Then, he told his story.

I retired from teaching this year (2020) after 30 years in high school. When I started teaching, we still typed everything on electric typewriters and then had someone in the office run copies on a mimeograph machine. (I can still smell that warm ink!) The coolest technology I used was a reel-to-reel movie projector and a filmstrip projector that advanced by itself instead of giving me the beep to advance it.

If you, like me, realize that God’s grace in allowing Jesus to take our punishment for sin means that He deserves no less than to be to first on our priority list, the hub that holds the spokes of our life wheel, the main thing (have I used enough Christian cliches here?), then the question becomes, what does this mean for me as a public school teacher? The courts have decided that we represent the government, and as such, we must be careful about how we live our faith in front of our students. How, then, do we follow the Great Commission and still teach with integrity?

The Army Reserves took her from basic training and Military Police school to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and then to Bosnia for Operation Joint Guard. Follow Dory's army career as she navigates through the fun and the difficulties of being a Christian woman, a civilian high-school English teacher, in the masculine world of the Military Police.