Roots in Ripon

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Hooray for the USA!

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I’ve been watching the Olympics, as time has allowed, these past two weeks. It is always a wonder to see these athletes perform on the world...

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

All Over But the Shouting

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Well, the time has come. After nearly thirty-four years of military service, the end of this chapter of my life is closing as of September 5...

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

A Visit to Corinth

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Nope, not the Corinth in Greece that I visited last March. This Corinth is a small town in northeastern Mississippi where Tennessee and Alab...

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Déjà Vu All Over Again

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I’m on the road again, but this is the last time as a military person. I will be retiring from the Navy reserve at the end of September. In...

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Just Win, Baby!

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I’m just one person, but I’ve spent a good number of years in our nation’s military. With all the talk today about “troop withdrawal,” “gett...

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

To Vote, or Not to Vote

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We’re half-way through summer with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions mere weeks away in August. Another way to look at this i...

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CHUCK ROOTS: Ripon, CA, United States; I am a husband and father of two daughters, Laura and Jenny, and three granddaughters, Alyssa Grace, Brooklyne Paige, and DeziRay, and two grandsons, Daniel and Colson. I'm a retired Evangelical pastor of the Free Methodist denomination, and a retired Navy Chaplain. As a former enlisted Marine I served in Vietnam. As a Navy Chaplain I served with the Marines in Kuwait, Iraq and Djibouti.

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