{"id":491,"date":"2007-11-10T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T22:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=491"},"modified":"2013-11-11T08:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:22:03","slug":"veterans-i-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/veterans-i-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans I Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Bennett asks, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/node\/222777\/print\">Do you know our heroes?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That fits with a thought I had yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I personally know a few military veterans. One of them is Mark Hammerness. He and they are to be <strong>commended and thanked<\/strong> for serving their country.<\/p>\n<p>But the veterans I have in mind are from a different type of war.<\/p>\n<p><font color=red><b>Missionaries<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> James and Noreen Roth &#8212; Mexico\n<\/li>\n<li> Rosana Roth &#8212; Mexico, Puerto Rico\n<\/li>\n<li> Karen Roth &#8212; Mexico\n<\/li>\n<li> Marvin and Esther Boss &#8212; Mexico\n<\/li>\n<li> Joe and Nancy Mast &#8212; Mexico\n<\/li>\n<li> Raul and Vanita Tadeo &#8212; Mexico<\/li>\n<li>John and Doris Miller &#8212; Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Vince and Marcela Frey &#8212; Mexico<\/li>\n<li> Larry and MaryAnn Taylor &#8212; Mexico\n<\/li>\n<li> Elmer and Sheila Fehr &#8212; Central America, Mexico\n<\/li>\n<li> Paul and Dorcas Smucker &#8212; Canada\n<\/li>\n<li> Steven and Judy Headings &#8212; Puerto Rico\n<\/li>\n<li> Mark and Enid Boss &#8212; Canada, Nigeria\n<\/li>\n<li> Maurice and Jane Boss &#8212; Canada\n<\/li>\n<li> Orpha <strike>Tice<\/strike> Smucker &#8212; Puerto Rico\n<\/li>\n<li> Maynard and Helen Headings &#8212; Honduras, Mexico\n<\/li>\n<li> Vivian <strike>Mast<\/strike> Turner &#8212; Mexico\n<\/li>\n<li> James Kropf &#8212; Mexico\n<\/li>\n<li> Urie and Delilah Sharp &#8212; Guatemala\n<\/li>\n<li> Allen and Carolyn Roth &#8212; Nicaragua\n<\/li>\n<li> Delbert and Joana Birky &#8212; Belize<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=red><b>School Teachers<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Noreen <strike>Byers<\/strike> Roth\n<\/li>\n<li> Rosana Roth\n<\/li>\n<li> Margaret Miller\n<\/li>\n<li> Shari <strike>Kropf<\/strike> Roth\n<\/li>\n<li> Esther Strubhar\n<\/li>\n<li> Dwight Strubhar\n<\/li>\n<li> Ron Bontrager\n<\/li>\n<li> Dorothy Turner\n<\/li>\n<li> Caroline <strike>Smucker<\/strike> Yoder\n<\/li>\n<li> Esther <strike>Slaubaugh<\/strike> Wolfer\n<\/li>\n<li> Brenda <strike>Beachy<\/strike> Sauder\n<\/li>\n<li> Kathryn Schrock\n<\/li>\n<li> Lavon <strike>King<\/strike> Kropf\n<\/li>\n<li> Danny Hertzler\n<\/li>\n<li> Nolan Bechtel\n<\/li>\n<li> Mary Strubhar\n<\/li>\n<li> Geneva <strike>Allan<\/strike> Yoder\n<\/li>\n<li> David Strubhar\n<\/li>\n<li> Philip Smucker\n<\/li>\n<li> Pat Turner\n<\/li>\n<li> Emily Goertzen\n<\/li>\n<li> Orpha <strike>Tice<\/strike> Smucker\n<\/li>\n<li> Jonathan Kropf\n<\/li>\n<li> John Smucker\n<\/li>\n<li> Johanna Goertzen\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=red><b>Pastors<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Maynard Headings\n<\/li>\n<li> Sterling Roth\n<\/li>\n<li> Ra&uacute;l V&aacute;zquez\n<\/li>\n<li> Manuel Torres\n<\/li>\n<li> Stanley Troyer\n<\/li>\n<li> Joe Mast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And (as far as I know) they&#8217;re all alive yet!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all for your service on the field of battle for the Kingdom of God! 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