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For your holiday joining a special Thanksgiving program thankful to God Hello and welcome to this special Thanksgiving program I'm Jerry Stewart all across America today families are gathering together with friends and loved ones to eat a lot of food have a lot of great fellowship maybe watch a little football but most of all to give thanks for the wonderful blessings we have here in America now is it just me or does it seem like this year has just flown by I think about it here we are already in November Christmas just around the corner and it seems like only yesterday that we celebrated this new year but just what does the time go well more and more every day I hear people say they believe that time is literally speeding up moving faster now is that scientifically possible I don't think so but if time is not actually moving faster just how can we explain this feeling that it is and I think I might have the answer I believe the reason that time appears to be moving so quickly is that most people in America today are spinning today preparing for tomorrow always looking ahead if you doubt just look at all the day planners in calendars people have their whole year already planned out and think about the stores and malls you could go to any store today and what would you see Christmas everywhere it wasn't that long ago that Christmas shopping didn't even start until the day after Thanksgiving but today you'll see Christmas in all the stores even before Halloween Now don't get me wrong I love Christmas it's one of my favorite holiday. But it's obvious we're spending so much time preparing for all the tomorrows that we don't take time to celebrate that today and that's too bad because each day is given to us as a special gift from God How do I know that well think about it yesterday is the past tomorrow is the future but today what is today it's the present a special present given to us by Almighty God And although we're all far too busy for our own good always looking at just what we must do tomorrow let us set aside our time today this special day Thanksgiving and just be thankful but just where does thankfulness begin where do we find and what are we still connect these people recall Pilgrim what are we still connect them to our Thanksgiving celebration after all it's been almost 400 years since they landed on Plymouth Rock in 1625 Do they still come to our minds when we think of Thanksgiving you say it's because they celebrated that 1st Thanksgiving and that's partly true but I believe it goes much deeper than that I believe it's because the Pilgrims were truly thankful people but you say I'm a thankful person what made them any different than me well if you read the personal accounts of those 1st Americans at Plymouth Rock You clearly see that what set the pilgrims aside for most any people in history is that they had this spirit of thankfulness and literally every situation you see anybody can be thankful when things are good but how many people do you know who are thankful in every situation you say nobody does that but the pilgrims did they took literally a Bible scripture that tells us in all things. Give thanks now I'm not talking about some unrealistic Don't worry be happy attitude that has no sense of the good and bad times in life the pilgrims could clearly see when things were bad but they had determined that during good times or bad times but they would not let the circumstances of live get them down and then no matter what happened they would trust God to be there with them giving them the strength to carry on into any circumstance they might find themselves in they were a very unique people and they were a very thankful people and here's the truth of it our lives are made up of a series of events of chapters in our own book of life there are the good times the bad times the times of great joy great hardship life death all of these things make up our lives but it's not the names that happen to you in your life that determine your life it's what you do with those things and today I'm going to tell you some powerful stories of true hardships of people who endured great hardship but determined to make their lives measured not by their circumstance but instead what they did with their circumstance you'll hear the story of a family a very poor family but this single mother and her children didn't even know that they were poor it sounds unbelievable that they would not know their own poverty but they were so selfless and concerned for others that they truly didn't even know this is the powerful story of what happened one Thanksgiving when this poor family decided to help the poorest family in their church this is one you cannot miss you'll hear the story of a job I had back in the seventy's at a church a very unusual church. I started by a man who had a serious physical handicap and he started this church as a ministry for others who were also severely handicapped when I started my job there at this Crusaders chapel I thought that I was going to be the one helping them but while I was there what I saw what these folks did for me changed my life forever and finally there was so much talk today about this word greatness and there is no doubt our America is great but just what is it that makes our nation great it's not I What it's. All Mighty God and for us to continue to be great as a nation what does God expect from us and now a frank full heart now if you listen to any of my previous Thanksgiving programs you've heard me tell the story of that 1st Thanksgiving and the tremendous hardships the pilgrims even survived just who were the pilgrims and how did they get the name. Well in the early sixty's hundreds a small group of Christians began to speak out against the corruption in the Church of England and they dared to challenge the idea that the Queen was the head of the church they said that only Christ could be the head of a body of believers they were sarcastically labeled Puritans because they sought to purify the church and then finally the church leaders could take no more they drove these Puritans out of England so they fled to Holland but there was no peace to be found in Holland there they were seen as foreign nerves and unskilled laborers they were not able to get good jobs and they soon became very poor they had to find somewhere in the world to live without persecution for the. Religious beliefs I knew about this new America but so far there had been no successful colonies a stablished in America because most all died here so they set themselves as a group of fasting and praying asking God to reveal his will for their lives and finally it was clear to all God wanted him to go to America so they went to America and lived happily ever after right wrong their trip to America was filled with problems and delays it took the Mayflower over 3 months to reach America and by that time the Pilgrims had eaten not only the food they had planned to eat while crossing the Atlantic they were forced to eat even their reserves so when they finally reached America they seemed surely determined to starve to death it was already November and an early winter was upon them they had no chance the plane crops or adequate shelters what would they do the conditions were so bad most people would have just given up but the pilgrims did not give up and stared right for God's deliverance but their circumstances just got harder and the pilgrims began to get sick and sadly they began to die and that 1st winter alone of the $102.00 men women and children in their group already 7 died nearly half of the 18 wides 13 died all accounts tell us that so many mothers died because they literally gave all their warm clothing and their portions of the food to their children what an unbelievable sacrifice well through a series of miracles the pilgrims did survive they had landed in an area that had plenty of fresh healthy water the. Land was excellent for planting and God sent of all things an Indian to help them you see one of the great hardships in America for other colonists had been violent Indian attacks and so many had died but here were the pilgrims with an Indian working to literally keep them alive his name was Squanto he talked about a hunt and fish and by the time that next winter came the Pilgrims had survived and they were so thankful to God that they set aside 3 days of public thanksgiving the 1st Thanksgiving it was a wonderful best event a time full of great joy and thanks to Almighty God for his deliberations it seemed there are hard times. Behind but it was not. I'm Gerri Stewart I'll be back with more of the pilgrims Thanksgiving school after these messages. It's the flak for a nice visit. To get your coupon for 50 percent off $30.00 in-store this Friday only find the perfect gifts for everyone on your list from some of the best brands in big black Friday 50 percent and $30.00. Only. Purchased. 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The 6 point one. Hello and welcome back to this special Thanksgiving program. And our last segment before the break we talked about the Pilgrims this tiny group of Christian people were searching. Place where they could worship Christ and be free to follow God wherever he might lead them as they fasted asking God for his leadership his answer it was made clear to them God to go to America so they did they were determined to follow the Lord no matter where he took them no matter how hard or difficult the path may be their path was hard very hard and when they finally arrived in America they were off course from their pre-established destination. Most all of their food was gone and their chances for survival seemed very small but amazingly there is not one written in the camp of their frustration or anger in their situation in fact their attitude was just the opposite amazingly in the face of the most desperate situation they could have ever imagined they were thankful and they trusted God's leadership and through all of that they did survive and to show their thankfulness to God they had a great celebration their 1st Thanksgiving but little did any of the pilgrims realize that this time of celebration in abundance would truly be short lived and then another great test of their faith was coming soon far too soon you see when that next winter came it was so hard so terribly hard that it was almost impossible to hunt or fish and their food supplies were quickly depleted and they were forced once again to ration al their food so when the next spring came they were tired and sick and weak hardly able to even begin their spring planting but they knew that if they didn't have a crop of at least twice the size of the previous year that they would all surely die twice the planting did they have the strength to do that only with God's help so they set out in the fields men women children all working to plant their crops the 1st planting was hard but it was successful but as soon as they had harvested that 1st crop they had to set their weary bones to begin again with the 2nd planting it was very hard but it did. That things were going to work out and then it came. That lingered on and on then it turned to a drought a drought so harsh that even the oldest Indian could not remember anything like it. One of the pilgrims Edward wind. So. Began to send forth the ears before they were even half grown with both blade and stock hanging their head and changing the color to appear utterly dead even beans or parched away as though they had been scorched before a fire. So. To do their crops were dying and they could do nothing in themselves up the drought and if this crop could not be harvested they would not be enough food for their winter Well most people would moan and complain and maybe even blame God but not the Pilgrims they did something quite amazing accounts that they began to examine their own hearts before the Lord then they made a proclamation that no one was to work but that everyone was to fast pray for God's divine intervention the drought went on for 12 full weeks just what would happen Winslow's personal continues he said in the morning when we assembled together the heavens were clear the drought continues then we're told that as a group they may. That and prayed for 9 hours and then it happened he said before our departure the weather became overcast the clouds gathered all sides on the next morning the soft sweet moderate shower began to fall it came without either wind or thunder or any violence and by degrees in such an abundance that the earth was thoroughly wet and soaked there with which to apparently revive been quick and the decayed corn and other fruits it made the Indians astonished to behold it rained. Days. That year was in such an abundance that the Pilgrims had even in excess of the trade to the Indians they had done it they had survived their last hard winter their harsh circumstances had almost killed them and certainly did its best to discourage them but they would not be defeated Instead these pilgrims had placed their faith their trust their very lives in the hands of Almighty God and he had delivered them and that 2nd Thanksgiving was even more festive enjoy in the 1st there was an abundance of food for all but when their 1st course was served they each had placed before them and empty plate with just 5 kernels of corn lest anyone forget that day William Bradford closed out his thoughts with these words he said as one small candle 1000 so the light kindled here dominie we have noted these things so the. Their worth and not lose what your fathers have obtained with so much. But after the Pilgrims were saved by God What did they do if they go on their own way leaving God behind. It past. God anymore certainly they did but their continuing to God was not just about him helping them it was a matter of responsibility they believed that with freedom. Comes responsibility and part of that responsibility involved just what they must do. America pilgrims have a message conveyed to us today and the message that Almighty God. To America to us as a people. He has shined the light of truth. But sadly the pilgrims lived here in America so many years ago sadly. Very dim with each new Thanksgiving season comes to America sadly we are getting farther and farther away until today. And I believe those pilgrims could be with us today to speak with us to give us a message message would be simply and powerfully. Remember the one who brought you here remember the miracles the blessings the deliverance remember the faith God and as a nation turn our hearts back to him I'm. Back with more of this special Thanksgiving program. His name was Squanto he was than Indian a member of the pothooks a tribe and 16 all 51 Squanto was just a young boy he and 4 other boys were captured from their village by Captain George way mouth and taken back to England captain way mouth's plan was to capture some Indian knaves in America and teach them how to speak English so that they could communicate with information about their area and just what the place would be for the English to establish a new colony it was a cruel but cunning plan and Squanto spent the next 9 years of his life in England and the House of Sir Ferdinando Georges and he was taught perfect English finally and 1614 Captain John Smith set sail on a voyage to America and he agreed to take Squanto back to whisk home and his people but when Squanto returned his homecoming didn't last long sailing on another ship with Smith's expedition was Captain Thomas hunt and he had only one thing in mind money so as soon as Smith had left the area only a few weeks later Captain Hunt made his way back down the coast and lured Squanto and 20 other of his braves on board his ship and put them in chains and then after capturing 7 more bribes from another tribe Captain Hunt made his way to Mulago port off the coast of Spain which was well known for its brutal slave trade Squanto and the others were sold as slaves but something quite miraculous happened a local monastery had actually gathered together enough money to buy a few of the soon to be slaves and one of these was Squanto they bought him an unbelievably set him free he literally owed his life to them how could any of them know the end what an important part Squanto would play and our nation's history for a short time squander. Lived at the monastery and learned about the Christian faith and finally in 1619 Squanto was once again given the opportunity to go home he couldn't wait to see its family but when he stepped off the boat and made his way to his village what he solved there was the most devastating blow of his life there was not one member of his tribe alive while Squanto had been away a terrible sickness had come to his village and it killed literally every man woman and child in his village for the next 6 months Squanto wandered aimlessly just what could he do what would he do then one day Squanto was told that a small group of peaceful English families was building a colony believe it or not where his own village had been this small band of people we know was Pilgrims had just endured that terrible winter and almost half had died they were sick and weak and had little food it seemed clear they would not survive unless someone helped them and Squanto made his way to their camp and saved their life so in October of 1621 when the Pilgrims decided to have a 3 day feast giving thanks to Almighty God for their deliverance they invited Squanto as their special guest but just what happened to Squanto he became a valuable scout to other explorers who came to America Amazingly after enduring all the hardships in his life and overcoming every obstacle only 2 years after that 1st Thanksgiving was celebrated Squanto was struck with a terrible fever and he died and what did the Pilgrims think of this man Squanto William Brewster one of the 1st group of pilgrims in his diary wrote these words Squanto was a special instrument of God for they are good beyond any possible expectations they knew that Squanto had been sent to them by God. And now we return to a thankful heart Hello and welcome back to this special Thanksgiving program Stuart it was year 2009 that truly one of the greatest men of all times in radio passed away his name was Paul Harvey and some have been more than a little canned to me when they say to me that I remind them a bit of him his style his stories and I am always flattered by their kind words but I truly believe that his gift of storytelling will never be captured by anyone he was to me the greatest storyteller ever heard and for those who knew him personally they say that his kindness his since a to Vittie his walk with God was a shining example to all when I 1st heard this next story it was being told by Mr Harvey and when I heard it I could not believe my ears listen to this true story he says I will never forget Easter 946 because I was 14 my little sister Ozy was 12 my older sister Darlene was 16 we lived at home with our mother my dad had died 5 years before a month before Easter of that year the pastor of our church had announced a special Easter offering would be taken up to help the poor family when we got home we talked about what we could do we decided to buy 50 pounds of potatoes and live on days for a month that would allow us to save $20.00 grocery money for the Easter offering we thought that if we kept our electric lights off as much as possible and not listen to the right e.o. We could save money on the electric bill darling got as many house cleaning jobs as possible and both of us babysat for neighboring families for $15.00 since we could buy enough cotton loops to make 3 pot holders to. For a dollar we made $20.00 on potholders so that month was the best month of our lives every day we counted the money we had saved that night we sat in the dark and talked about the poor family they we would be helping the day before Easter we Canada all up and we had earned and saved $70.00 for the sacrificial offering now we kids had never seen so much money before that night we were so excited we could hardly sleep we had $70.00 to give to that poor family we could hardly wait to get to church on Sunday the rain was pouring down that Sunday morning but we didn't care how we got the cardboard came apart in Darling soaking wet shoes but we sat together in church so proud and when the collection plate came by my mom put in $10.00 and each of us kids put in a fresh new 20 that my mother had gotten from the bank a brand new $20.00 bill and when we walked home after church we sang all the way it has been an Easter to remember always. Afternoon the pastor came calling and mom went to the door and he gave her. Money and clothing 17 ones. And 3 crisp twenty's the pastor was. Given. We were the family for whom the money had. After a few minutes of talking. Quietly put the money back into the envelope and we all there. At the floor just moments before we had been the richest kids in all that once we were poor and there the story ended now I don't know about you but it's hard for me to understand how any one family could be so poor and not. The know it but it's clear it has to do not with your circumstances but just how you see your circumstances and a thankful heart causes you to see things quite differently because you know it's harder to frown than it is to smile that's right doctors tell us that it takes more muscles to frown then to smile and for years scientists have told us that our album can actually control our health but you say just what do you do with all your worries and problems that keep you down try this little test take a coin from your pocket and extend your arm out to there when you see the koan in your hand it's some distance away now imagine that this is your problem as you look at it from arm's length you can clearly see it but you can also see the rest of the world Ok Now move the colon closer and closer to your eye now what do you see nothing because this coing problem has completely blocked your vision from anything else your problem has become your whole world and there's this word perception in the radio business are saying that perception is reality in other words what you choose to believe becomes so and if I may say so I believe that one huge problem we have America today is that we have so convinced ourselves that everything is so hard that it causes us to lose sight of our true circumstances ask yourself ask your family today are we rich are we poor What are we using as. 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Hello and welcome back to this special Thanksgiving program I'm Terry Stewart today we're talking about this idea of being thankful no matter what the sun. To be thankful Can you imagine having such little food that your milk consist of just 5 kernels of corn and to still be thankful to be in the freezing cold cannot find enough want to even fill your frozen toes and to still be thankful Wow Didn't we heard the story of one family a widowed mother and her 3 children and they were so very poor but they didn't even know it it's almost unbelievable how they were able to be thankful I'm it such hardship honestly it can really make what we call problems in our lives today look so very small but here's a question Is it possible for people in the midst of their hardship and suffering is it possible for them to be a blessing Well think about it who are the people who inspire us most oh we may have sports stars and celebrities we look up to but truly the people who inspire us most are the people who in the midst of their own hardships do not quit that's one reason we're so attracted to those 1st pilgrims at Plymouth Rock they had everything going against them but with God's help they refused to quit Yes it is possible for a person to be a blessing in the midst of their hardship if you've heard any of my past programs you've heard me mention one job I took as a young man over 35 years ago now that so moved me that I have never forgotten it was a job working for a church called Crusaders chapel now what made the church unique is that it was a church designed to minister to people with all forms of physical and mental elements and hardships the church was founded by a man who had been a college football player with a great career ahead of him until a tragic accident. Had paralyzed him from the neck down but instead of letting his paralysis destroy his life he decided to start a ministry a church where people with all sorts of handicaps could come and be ministered to and when I agreed to take the job at that church I thought that I would be ministering to those people I would soon to find out that it would be them instead who would be ministering to me I'm never forget the night I 1st came to crusader chapel was pretty nervous after all there were so many suffering people some had elements from birth like muscular dystrophy others had been struck by polio and multiple sclerosis still others had been victims of accidents and violent crimes and wars it was every form of suffering a person could imagine so how would I act how could I in my own way spread some little piece of joy and sunshine well as I drove up to the church and stepped to the door I took one big gulp and stepped inside and when I did I was taken back No I was shocked they had moved all the chairs and obstacles to the sides of the church and they were actually having wheelchair races and there was laughing and talking and fellowship and joy and before that night was over they had me in a wheelchair racing and joking and singing it was absolutely amazing Crusaders' chapel was a wonderful joyous place now that doesn't mean that there wasn't sadness to there were those who became sick and some that died it wasn't that unusual for someone to have some difficulty actually during a church service and of course there were dreams and aspirations they had that never came true people who wanted all so much to stand up and walk or to give a speech that others could actually understand their words but they never. Allowed the hardships to overshadow their joy and just what was the secret to their joy well to them it was no secret it was a peace and assurance they had in their hearts given to them by Jesus Christ but there was something else very special that they had they had learned to grow where they were planted in other words to accept their particular circumstance in life and to do the best to live through it but most of all to be a blessing and encouragement to someone else I remember one young man he was just 19 His name was Clayton he had been a big boy an athlete but he'd been struck with such a severe case of multiple sclerosis that his widowed mother could not handle him so we ended up in a rest home and every Sunday I would pick him up wheel him into the church van and take him to church hardly speak but he loved to sing in the choir to mostly just make a joyful noise until well as his disease continued to take its toll he lost a lot of weight one Sunday as I picked him up from that rest home they were working to get his trousers to stay up I loaded him up into the van and we made our way to the church when we got there we were running late and the service was already starting as a rush to get him up the ramp in his wheelchair and into the church Clayton began to slide down in that chair he couldn't stay that way so I put my arms under his arms and gave him a pull back up but when I did there was one big problem when his body came up his pants down and very set in that wheelchair only in his underwear What did Clinton do. He began to laugh it was like a bad skit in an old vaudeville routine and he could not stop laughing. And before I knew it he had made busting up laughing to hear Clayton was with his trousers It is a we couldn't go in and all the people inside and there we were outside and we couldn't stop laughing Well finally I composed myself and tried to think of a solution so I rushed back to the van pulled out a blanket and ran back to Clayton I tucked that blanket around his waist and down under his fate to cover him up then we took a moment and made our entrance but Clayton was not content to just sit in the congregation he wanted to be wheeled up front to be in the choir so I pushed him up there and nobody noticed that his trousers were down well in a few minutes the choir sang their special music and Clayton in his own musical style did his best to make his own joyful noise unto the Lord but in the middle of that song Clayton looked at me and through his own disability he managed to give me a wink and he gave me something else that day a wonderful blessing. I don't know why there has to be hard a hardship and suffering but there's a part of me that wonders Are there some people so good so strong so courageous so full of God's love and joy that they're picked for the most important of all to be a blessing thank you Clayton for p. M Jerry Stiller I'll be back with some final thoughts after these messages. Celebrate amazing savings at your local Sprint store now through Sunday November 17th you can pick up the new i Pad 7 featuring a 10.2 inch retina display and smart keyboard on us when you add a new line in a qualifying plan that's right get the new i Pad on us when you add a new line at Sprint there's never been a better time to switch. Hurrying to your local Sprint store now through Sunday November 17th to learn more I've had some gender did you get my dear dollars per month up to 920 month the credit for 23 months credited by we're going to build a party line up all one plane if you cancel early remaining amounts to tax you would sail. 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Hello and welcome back to this special Thanksgiving Day program I'm Jerry Stewart today it's Thanksgiving and truly here in America we have so much to be thankful for as a nation as a people we have been so blessed but I must admit I'm truly concerned as to just what will happen to our nation unlike any time I can ever remember there's so much discord and fighting and disagreeing within our United States that quite frankly it doesn't feel like we're much united at all and there are so many around the world who want to see us fail as a nation some hate us because we're a nation founded on a faith in God others don't lock us because we seek to spread democracy around the world and they don't believe in freedom for all people now it's hard as all of that is to take I can live with others not locking us there will always be those who want to see you fall but what concerns me most today it's what's happening inside America and what I'm about to say some today may not want to hear but it is true it is simply and powerfully this our nation America is a nation founded on a faith and trust in Almighty God And today we need him more than ever now some would choose to leave God out of any story but when you tell the story of America you cannot look at the Pilgrims they were a simple people a small band of men women and children who had no particular skills as explorers or colonist they were not survivalist but they were the 1st successful colony here in America but what did they have by head God when they left for America from Holland they ask God to. Like the song says to stand beside them and Goddamn it was no accident that the storms pushed their tiny ship north to uncharted lands it was no coincidence that the place they finally landed and no hostile Indians there was plenty of fresh water and good soil it was no accident that the Indians Squanto came to them and literally saved them from dying and the pilgrims knew it there was no doubt or questioning you see for the pilgrims it was clear and obvious it was God himself who was their strength their shield their provider it was God who was their blessing and all through the history of our nation we have had some really dark times but each time as the days became the darkest too dark many times for us to even know our way as a nation we turned to God and he led us through that darkness and the more I study history the more clear this truth becomes so just what is the message today a message of hope a message of blessing a message of warning let us not forget how we got here as a nation and who has been with us all the way let us realize that we need to continue to ask God for his special blessing and we need to be a blessing to others ourselves well that's all the show for today you have a wonderful blessid Thanksgiving take some time today and be a blessing I'm Jerry Stewart saying goodbye for now may God bless America and may God bless you 6. Did you know the 1st constitutional document in America was not our us Constitution Oh. For 150 years before the pilgrims drew up what they called the Mayflower Compact it talked of the freedom of all people with equal say by all self-governing working together to set up such laws and ordinances to provide them with a safe then just community so in 1787 when the 55 delegates met to draw up our Constitution they already had a clear vision and a firm foundation of just what they wanted the United States to be the labor not us Constitution has roots all the way back to the pilgrims in 1621 let this be a lesson to us all that what we do today may not seem terribly important but it could actually affect people 34500 years from now think about it there is a chance your local Geico agent owns the same designer dog breed as you. 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Make a Deal we'll see if they want to make a deal it's going to be a real deal but we'll see but they want to make a deal and they want to make a deal because you're doing a great job at Chili's they want to make a deal so I want to thank you and I want to thank the Afghan soldiers for president traveled to Baghran airfield Thursday where he served turkey spent time with the troops and then had a brief meeting with Afghan president Ashraf Ghani before heading back to the u.s. Meanwhile the president's support of human rights and pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong has angered China with his signature on 2 bills that express u.s. Support for Hong Kong the president riled up Beijing which has threatened to take strong countermeasures the bill signings could complicate the effort to work out a trade deal with China in a White House statement Mr Trump says he signed the bills out of respect for President Xi China and the people of Hong Kong and he hopes their differences can be settled peacefully Greg kludged then Washington u.p.s. Employees are caught in a drug scandal for United Parcel Service employees were arrested over the past 2 weeks charged with helping to import massive amounts of drugs in counterfeit vaporing oils into our country from Mexico and investigation by local state and federal authorities revealed that 11 people including the u.p.s. Employees were surveilled as part of a decade long investigation into drugs being routed through u.p.s. Is trucking and delivery systems in skeet Peters reporting from Washington d.c. Check out more news.