Links-R-Us, Vol. 22

Welcome to another Link-Friday post.  It’s been a horrendously long time since last I posted anything (thanks a lot lingering cold that makes me sooooo exhausted…) so I thought I would get back into the swing of things with a few links…  Oh, yeah…  Seeing how the voting thing seemed to be a HUGE failure I’ve abandoned it until such time as one of you wonderful readers wants to reinstitute the process.  With that being said, enjoy the following links…

First up we have an article that has pulled at my heart strings since I read the first version of it last night.  Suffice it to say I think it is one of the most beautiful, though tragic, things I have read as of late.  It’s the story of a four year old girl who helped to save her younger sister from a car accident that killed their mother.  I hope and pray that my children would take care of each other like this if the need would ever arise.  Quite an amazing little girl…

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/21/17043992-hero-4-year-old-pulls-little-sister-from-wreckage-after-car-crash-kills-their-mother?lite
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=24159289&nid=157&title=on-a-hunch-fishermen-find-crash-site-2-sisters-&fm=home_page&s_cid=featured-1

Next we have a link to a news story about a PBS documentary about the Space Shuttle Columbia accident.  I have yet to be able to find the documentary itself (without forking over excessive amounts of cash to PBS) and I’m really interested in seeing it based on the article.  The article/documentary talks about a Torah hidden during World War II in a German concentration camp that flew on Columbia.  Please let me know if anyone knows where to find a copy to rent/view/etc.

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/30/16759541-mission-of-hope-finds-uplifting-story-within-the-shuttle-columbia-tragedy

Our next link is to a video of a father talking to Congress about our rights to “bear arms.”  What makes this so interesting is that the father had a child at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut at the time of the shooting.  Ignore the subject matter he was called to testify about for a minute and think about it this way:  Don’t you wish that with the way our Congress is currently sooooooo dysfunctional there were more people who would tell them off like he does?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhXPlCjr0Vw

Our next link is to the Lord of the Rings Project website.  This website has all sorts of stats and genealogy for characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s work.  The one stat that jumped out at me as I quickly explored the site was the lack of female characters in Tolkien’s work.  In all of Tolkien’s writing only once did he mention a dwarfish female by their name.  It’s kinda eye opening.

http://lotrproject.com/

My last link comes from a story that I had never heard of before.  It’s a story about a World War II U.S. warship carrying troops to Europe that was sunk on the way there.  What’s remarkable about this story is that four military chaplains were on the ship and through their acts (which literally sentenced themselves to death) they saved others.  The article contrasts the other events of the weekend that it came out on: Super Bowl Sunday.  I really wished that everyone could read this article and remember the true heroes that exist in our world instead of people who many look to that really have never done anything heroic.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/03/opinion/greene-four-chaplains/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

Thanks for tuning in.  Hopefully these links that have touched my life recently can touch yours in the same positive manner.