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A Blessed Contagion
Dennis Garvin Just the other day, I attended a funeral at an African American church. Like most attendees of funerals, I was going to show respect for the grieving family I had come to love. Well,...
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France and the USA
Dennis Garvin While in the Air Force, I was stationed with the 494th tactical fighter squadron in RAF Lakenheath, England. This was part of the 48th Wing, known as the ‘Statue of Liberty’ Wing. It...
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The Unfortunate Use of the ‘S’ Word
Dennis Garvin Following the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11, George Bush addressed the nation. In the body of his message regarding the government commitment to punish the perpetrators, he used the...
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Israel / Palestinian Question Shows American Hypocrisy
Dennis Garvin I have written two previous commentaries about hypocrisy. Maybe having chastised myself for hypocrisy, I am more aware of it. Or, maybe I now suffer from a bit of smug complacency. In...
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The Power of Forgiveness
Dennis Garviner of Foregicv In modern society, forgiveness is countercultural. In the human breast, it is counterintuitive. In our country, it is also ‘counter-profit’: all one needs to do is watch...
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I Am PC – I Have Arrived
Dennis Garvin Those of you who have read my earlier commentaries no doubt united with me in despair over my ever becoming modern. It is a statistical improbability that a curmudgeon of my age would...
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High School Reunion, Wade Hampton High School, Greenville, SC
Dennis Garvin This past weekend, I went back for the 50th reunion of my High School class in South Carolina. I traveled down I-85, the same road I had first traveled 51 years ago, moving from New...
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The Charleston Tragedy
Dennis Garvin At the usual warp speed of demagoguery, the tragedy of the Charleston church shootings is being used to support the points of view held by interest groups. As usual, it has become...
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Forgiveness Part II
Dennis Garvin I had written a previous commentary published in The Roanoke Star about forgiveness, not knowing that a tragic contrast would underscore what I had written. I should have been,...
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Unintended Consequences: As Goes The Scottish Tartan So Goes The Confederate...
Dennis Garvin It would appear that we are witnessing another ironic historical convergence. I refer to the recent actions taken against the flag of the Confederacy. Also, the statue of Jefferson...
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Supreme Court Ruling Threatens Faith Based Giving
Dennis Garvin It was Mother’s Day. I had finished my surgical rounds and, while on the way to the parking lot, observed a couple coming toward the hospital entrance. They were walking away from the...
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Reflections of A Former Darwinist
Dennis Garvin I am a reasonably educated man. Valedictorian of my college class, honors graduate of medical school, product of a surgical subspecialty training program ranked in the top two in the...
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Beware Ambivalence
Dennis Garvin Ambivalence is what you feel when your teenage daughter comes home at three in the morning carrying a Gideon Bible. – Attributed to Gov. George Wallace Ambivalence. What a great word....
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The Un-blinding of Lady Justice
Dennis Garvin Consider Lady Justice, rendered in statue. Derived from the Roman goddess of justice, her artistic representations, aside from the abstract fringe depictions, is that of a woman who is...
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The Eviction of The Almighty
Dennis Garvin EVICTION NOTICE TO: God, also known as ‘Heavenly Father’; ‘Creator’; ‘Intelligent Designer’, ‘Father Figure of the Trinity’; other aliases and DBA notwithstanding. FROM: Supreme Court of...
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The Problem With ‘Focus’ And Special Interest Groups
Dennis Garvin Our country has always had to deal with special interest groups. In the Revolutionary War, it was Patriots versus Loyalists. In the new republic it was Federalism (strong central...
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Not So Much Fun With Prophecy
Dennis Garvin Islam is a political movement masquerading as a religion… Admiral James ‘Ace’ Lyons Political correctness can be...
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A Modest March Proposal
Dennis Garvin It is time for ‘March Madness.’ For those of you uninterested in college basketball, this is the time when the NCAA selects a large group of major and small universities to compete in...
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The Lord’s Prayer – Bureaucracy Style
Dennis Garvin Despite all the talk about separation of church and state, the working definition of this doctrine is: rooting out all spirituality in government or government supported institutions;...
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Amy The Human Firelfy
Dennis Garvin As a child, I was captivated by fireflies: the way they danced and spun, disappearing from view only to reappear just slightly away from where they had vanished from sight. You could...
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