Letter from Chip Northrup
Be Grateful for Small Mercies
Like most herd animals, we are oblivious to the suffering of others until it gets close to us. Not until when we, our family, or friends are threatened, do we react. As the father of two daughters and grandfather of four granddaughters, that happened to me when Texas reinstated a 100-year-old law that prohibits abortion—even for an incestuously raped child.
It happened again recently, when the Air Force removed a training video that showed Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. (https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-more-dei-fallout-air-force-scraps-course-that-used-videos-of-tuskegee-airmen-and-female-wwii-pilots/)
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