Ormie King
Special to The Citizen
Todayâs story comes to us from Pat Tamburrino of Auburn. It is a beautiful tribute to her father, William G. Stott, and all who served in the armed forces. Pat had this to say about her dad: He is the one on the far right top corner. He is on the 4th step with the lighter colored jacket. They spelled his name wrong in the article. They put it as Scott and should have been Stott.
He passed away in 2011 and when I was looking at his Army hat, I found this clipping of the service men put in the lining. I enclosed the picture of his grave marker just so you would see his decorations. After enlisting, he went on to basic training at Fort Dix in New Jersey followed up by amphibious training in Florida. From there he was shipped out to Europe and arrived there on Oct. 29, 1943. He landed in the second wave at Omaha Beach and later the Battle of Bulge/Ardennes. It was in the Bulge that he saved a fellow soldier from
Anat Hermony/FLASH90
Along with the many stories of terrible suffering experienced by the Jewish people during World War II, a largely unknown testimony of God’s amazing grace emerged from the very place where justice was carried out upon some of the Holocaust’s leading perpetrators.
A paean of praise to the limitless mercy of God toward penitent sinners, it is bound to shock and offend in equal measure. Which is why, unnerved by the potential backlash from a populace not yet deemed ready for such sensation, the U.S. government censored news of the event for five years.
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These Are the 50 Most Covered Songs of All Time
By Angela Underwood, Stacker News
On 1/17/21 at 11:00 AM EST
If you agree with the old proverb that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then cover songs serve as tributes to their original artists. Sometimes, a cover version vastly outshined its original. Such is the case with Summertime, originally written for the 1935 George Gershwin opera
Porgy and Bess, which Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong put a jazz spin on in 1957 to make it an international hit.
To learn more about the most covered songs in musical history, Stacker mined data from WhoSampled.com, whose goal is to build the most comprehensive database for music. The site features more than 653,000 songs and more than 215,000 artists as of February 26, 2020. Aside from Beatles tunes, Christmas music accounts for a number of the most covered songs, including Bing Crosby s White Christmas in 1942: the second-most covered holiday song with more than 50 mill