Meet Unsinkable Sam: The Cat that Survived Three Ships Sinking in WWII

“THE JOURNALIST “… REVEALING AND INTERESTING

Amazing, yet true!

http://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/unsinkable-sam-cat-wwii/

http://www.iizcat.com/post/4296/The-legend-of-Unsinkable-Sam-the-cat-who-served-on-and-survived-3-sinking-ships-during-WW2

Also see

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=%22Unsinkable+Sam%22+known+to+the+Germans+as+%22Oscar%22+a+ca&rlz=1C1CHBD_enNZ698NZ698&oq=%22Unsinkable+Sam%22+known+to+the+Germans+as+%22Oscar%22+a+ca&aqs=chrome..69i57.503j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=%22Unsinkable+Sam%22+

PPS

Was Oscar perhaps also on the Dorsetshire?

see http://www.bismarckdorsetshireandmemories.wordpress.com

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Beyond Forgiving : Two South Africans Share Their Story of Healing

Stories of Forgiving

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marina-cantacuzino/beyond-forgiving_b_5272233.html

You may also like

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trudy-bourgeois/the-greatest-gift_b_4469297.html

pictures from

https://mandelamadiba.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/nelson-mandela-four-acts-of-forgiveness-that-showed-south-africa-path-away-from-apartheid/

and

https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/nelson-mandela-four-acts-of-forgiveness-that-showed-south-africa-path-away-from-apartheid

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Nelson Mandela: Four Acts of Forgiveness that Showed South Africa Path away from Apartheid

Nelson Mandela: My Inspiration (and "Inspirator")

https://wordpress.com/posts/weforgive.wordpress.com

“Together, one heart, one mind, one life, one small step at a time, let’s plant the seeds of hope for a better and brighter future… then together let’s walk towards it.”

Share encourage and spread HOPE, LOVE and LIGHT

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SCARS REPAIRED, TEEN TO HEAD BACK TO IRAQ

Unsung Heroes: People Shining a Light in a Sometimes Dark World

SCARS  REPAIRED, TEEN TO HEAD BACK TO IRAQ

Sourced from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100421/ap_on_re_us/us_burned_iraqi_boy

Tags: heroes, Iraq, AP

After surgeries in Mich., Iraqi teen to head home
 
Associated Press Writer Kathy Barks Hoffman, Associated Press Writer – Wed Apr 21, 3:15 pm ET
LANSING, Mich. – A 13-year-old Iraqi boy brought to Michigan a year ago by a National Guardsman so he could get plastic surgery to repair scars from a house fire no longer is shy about pulling off his beloved Detroit Tigers baseball cap.

Black, glossy hair now grows where only scar tissue was before. And Mohammed’s left hand and wrist — deformed in the fire when he was 2 — now can adeptly field baseballs.

On Sunday, Mohammed will head back to Iraq with Army National Guard Major David Howell, who brought the shy, slender boy to mid-Michigan last April for the life-changing surgery.

“He’s really happy that he…

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Anniversary of sinking of battleships with loss of 424 lives

THE BOOK ‘Bismarck, Dorsetshire and Memories’

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/anniversary-of-sinking-of-battleships-with-loss-of-424-lives-will-be-remembered-today-in-plymouth/story-30247665-detail/story.html

http://www.journalistandwriter.wordpress.com

and

https://www.facebook.com/craig.lock.31

“Lest we forget”

RIP dearest dad

picture from  Bismarck, Dorsetshire and Memories

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Reporter’s Notebook: The Day South Africa woke-up | Daily Maverick

https://journalistandwriter.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/reporters-notebook-the-day-south-africa-woke-up-daily-maverick/