3.11.26 The administration’s foreign policy, Anglicans redefining the future, and including believers with disabilities

Good morning, a change in the president's cabinet and the potential for change in Cuba.

And it may be a friendly takeover, it may not be a friendly takeover, it wouldn't matter.

That and more is ahead on Washington Wednesday with Hunter Baker, also on World Tour Internal

Disagreement with the Church of England.

And a church seeking to meet the needs of everyone.

Our friends with disabilities are their human, they're sinful, and they need Jesus just

as much as we do.

And a courageous prisoner of war gets the Medal of Honor decades after his death.

It's Wednesday, March 11th.

This is The World and everything in it from listener-supported world radio.

I'm Lindsay Mast.

Good morning.

Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.

The U.S. military just carried out its heaviest day yet of strikes inside Iran.

That's the word from Pentagon Chief Pete Hegsith, who said the military is not doing the job

halfway.

Instead, they're looking to cripple the Iranian regime.

If the enemy can simply wait and then project power, that's problematic.

And we've seen some spurts here there, but ultimately the trend lines, if you look at

the charts that we look at every day, have gone like this down to all a flat.

It doesn't mean they won't be able to project, doesn't mean they can't.

He said Iran's ability to do damage has already been strongly degraded.

And America's top general, Dan Cain, agreed to telling reporters that the strength of Iran's

response is trending sharply downward.

Ballistic missile attacks continue to trend downward, 90% from where they've started.

And one way attack drone has decreased 83% since the beginning of the operation.

And the White House says the military operation is going exactly according to plan, perhaps

even better.

But there are some mixed messages from the administration about how long the mission

might last.

After President Trump seemingly suggested this week that the operation could wrap up very

soon, the White House clarified that the mission will only end when, quote, Iran is in a position

of unconditional surrender.

In Israel, air raid sirens sounded over Tel Aviv yesterday as flashes appeared in the

sky as Israeli interceptors blocked incoming Iranian missiles.

There were no reports of any damage or injuries.

Israel's military says it has already struck more than 400 military targets in Iran.

Main time across Israel's northern border.

An explosion rocked the Lebanese capital city of Beirut as Israel's Air Force hit a southern

suburb.

Israel says those attacks are targeting members of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah

who are active there.

For Iranian diplomats were killed in a strike in Beirut, Iran's ambassador to the UN,

Amir Said, Irovani.

The diplomats have temporarily relocated to the hotel for the safety and security.

They called on the UN to condemn the strikes.

Canadian police are investigating after two men apparently opened fire on the U.S. Consulate

in downtown Toronto on Tuesday.

Toronto deputy police chief Frank Burrito.

Two individuals emerged from the vehicle discharged at what appears to be a handgun at the

front of the building and then got back into their vehicle and drove southbound.

He said police received reports of the shooting and arrived on the scene shortly thereafter.

Police say they found spent shell casings as well as damage to the building.

There were people inside the building, however, this building is highly secure, highly

fortified and there were no injuries.

They released no information about possible suspects.

Ontario premier Doug Ford called the shooting unacceptable intimidation and Toronto mayor

Alif Yachau was linking it to recent gunfire at two synagogues.

Chau says police have increased patrols at the U.S. and Israeli consulates.

She also warns that anti-Semitic incidents often rise during international crises.

On Capitol Hill, President Trump's plan for passing a law verifying voter eligibility

is facing some friendly fire.

General Terrace and Waters has more now from the nation's capital.

Senate Majority Leader John Foon told reporters on Tuesday he doesn't have the votes to get

the Save America Act through debate as is.

It takes 60 votes to prevent bill amendments on the floor.

President Trump wants him to use the so-called nuclear option, changing the Senate rules to

end the filibuster.

That would allow it to pass on a simple majority.

White House press secretary Caroline Loveot.

He wants all options on the table and he wants the Senate to move as quickly as possible

through whatever means necessary.

But Foon says there is not enough support in the Senate for ending the filibuster.

Trump has said he will not sign any other legislation until the Save Act hits his desk

with a few changes.

He wants Congress to include rules blocking mail-in ballots along with bans on men and women

sports and transgender surgeries for minors.

Reporting for World, I'm Harrison Waters in Washington.

The FBI found explosive residue on a Pennsylvania storage unit after two men were charged with

bringing homemade bombs to a protest outside the home of New York City's mayor.

Police said the FBI conducted controlled detonations after finding the materials at a public

storage facility in Lunghorn.

Democratic mayor Zora Mamdani reacted saying he would not be intimidated.

I think first and foremost, just to make it clear to everyone that extremism and hatred

of any kind will not be tolerated in our city.

A teen-year-old Amir Balot and 19-year-old Ibrahim Khayumi were arrested Saturday near Gracie

Mansion in Manhattan.

Investigators say the suspects were inspired by ISIS.

I'm Kat Kaubington and straight ahead.

Unter Baker is here for Washington Wednesday plus how one church welcomes those with special

needs.

This is the world and everything in it.

It's Wednesday, March 11th.

Glad to have you along for today's edition of The World and Everything in it.

Good morning, I'm Murnal Brown.

And I'm Lindsay Mast.

Time now for Washington Wednesday.

Joining us is political scientist Hunter Baker.

He is a world opinions contributor and provost at North Greenville University.

Good morning, Hunter.

Good morning.

Well Trump's pick for the new head of Homeland Security is gearing up for his confirmation

hearing next week.

Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen will face colleagues he's served with for the last three

years.

Mullen is a business owner and former MMA fighter, and he's brought some of that fight into

the Senate.

In 2023, a verbal fight with the teamster's president, Sean O'Brien, during a committee

hearing, had almost turned physical.

So, this is a time, this is a place you want to run your mouth.

We can be too consenting adults.

We can finish it here.

Okay, that's fine.

Perfect.

You want to do it now?

I'd love to do it right now.

We'll stain your butt up then.

You stand your butt up.

Hold it.

Hold it.

Stop it.

Mullen later said he's forged a working friendship with O'Brien, and he's got wide

support on the hill to take the job at Homeland Security.

So Hunter, what does Trump's choice of a replacement here for Christie Knowham tell you about

his priorities?

I just want to say that in Mark Wayne Mullen's short MMA career, he was 3 and 0.

So the teamster's president may have been wise to avoid that confrontation.

This is a big deal.

The Secretary of Homeland Security is a major position in the cabinet, despite its relative

newness starting after September 11.

For her to leave at this point is, you know, it's not a good development for her political

career.

I know that she's going over to be the envoy for the shield of the Americas, but what

this tells you is that she has lost the president's favor.

She's lost his confidence.

And I think there's a couple of reasons for that.

I think that, first of all, that the action in Minnesota did not go well.

I think that it hurt the president on his strongest issue, which is immigration.

I think that, you know, he may have lost, I don't know, 12 to 15 points of approval on

that issue alone.

And so what had been a strength is turned into a vulnerability.

And in addition to that, there was the controversy over her spending considerable amount of money

on ads that per her front and center and then saying that Trump had approved that massive

expenditure, therefore, embarrassing him.

So that leads to going to Mark Wayne Mullen.

Mark Wayne Mullen is a total Trump loyalist.

He has built his reputation alongside of a Trump, basically all the way.

And despite that, I'll say, despite his sort of a pugnacious reputation, my understanding

is that he is well liked across the aisle and that he may be able to leverage those relationships

into good things for homeland security.

Well, Hunter, as you just said, no one will be joining Marco Rubio's Latin America team

as envoy to shield of the Americas, a new partnership with 13 core member countries

in Central and South America aimed at combating drug trafficking and cartels.

During the opening summit, Trump announced that with improvements coming to Venezuela,

his attention is moving closer to home.

We're also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba.

Now, when asked about it on Monday, Trump said Marco Rubio is working on a deal.

It may be a friendly takeover, it may not be a friendly takeover, it wouldn't matter

because they're down to, as they say, fumes.

So Hunter, Cuba has been an American national security challenge for the better part of

a century.

What kind of changes do you think could be coming?

I'm interested to see how this works out.

Obviously, the relationship with Cuba has been fraught ever since the revolution at the

end of the 50s.

And of course, we had the disaster of the Bay of Pigs during the Kennedy administration.

Then, of course, the terrifying Cuban missile crisis after that.

And we have been in a tense sort of a standoff situation with Cuba ever since.

You might have thought that once the Soviet Union collapsed and with it their support

for Cuba, that Cuba would fall apart.

And yet that hasn't happened.

They have survived as a highly ideological regime headed by the Castro family now for

decades after the fall of the Soviet Union.

But if, let's imagine, if it happens that that regime falls and they enter into a constructive

relationship with the United States, could be amazing.

I can just imagine what a tourist mecca Cuba would become.

I could imagine a major league baseball team in Cuba.

It could be just a total transformation, but I'm waiting to see.

I'm excited about what could be, but I don't know if we're going to get there or not.

Well, let's go to the main event, the war with Iran.

We saw dramatic swings in oil prices early in the week with the straight of hormones effectively

closed.

We talked about the economic side of that a bit with David Bonson on Monday.

But I understand you think there is an important political aspect to this.

What are you watching there?

One of the things that we've been saying now for several weeks, maybe even months, is

that Americans are highly focused on affordability.

When Trump tells Americans how good things are, there tend to be two things that he focuses

on.

One is the stock market, which is down right now, a couple of hundred points at least.

The other is gas prices.

He loves to talk about low gas prices.

With this action in Iran, we have seen the price of oil go up substantially, and Americans

may have noticed.

Depending on where you live, I live in a relatively low gas price area of the country.

Several days ago, we had a shock increase to about 320 per gallon, and so that gives

people the impression.

Regardless of how big a piece of the pie gas prices are, they do affect the price of everything,

that price is constantly in your face and it gets people's attention.

We saw the price of oil spike.

It went up from, say, about $70 a barrel to something like $119 a barrel.

But it's come back down some sense then, but that just shows you the political risk.

If those prices go up and stay up, then Trump is going to be in a real fight on the affordability

front.

So it's in his interest to figure out how to deal with this straight-of-war moose problem.

Something like 20% of the world's oil goes through that straight.

So if Iran can impose enough economic pain through the straight-of-war moose, then Trump

could lose political support for his war.

So he's got to figure out a way to gain control of the straight and to do so fairly quickly.

Well, Hunter, let's move finally to what New York Times columnist David French is calling

the Tallarico moment.

He's referring, of course, to James Tallarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas,

who will face off against either John Cornex, who currently holds the seat, or Attorney

General Ken Paxton.

They still have a runoff to get through.

Here's a bit of Tallarico in his speech after he defeated Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett

in the primary last week.

We're a threat to their corrupt system.

2,000 years ago, when the powerful few at the top hurt those at the bottom, that barefoot

rabbi didn't stay in his room and pray.

He walked into the seat of power and flipped over the tables of injustice.

He's supposedly running on the politics of love and often uses references to Jesus and

his speeches.

He went to seminary and is affiliated with the mainline Presbyterian Church, USA.

In French's article this week, he seems to be taking up Tallarico's cause to an extent,

calling him decent, and one of the few Christian politicians who actually acts like a Christian.

We played a good bit of Tallarico's comments on the program yesterday, so I won't rehash

them here, but you'll notice listening to him, how often he cloaks his progressive ideology

in scriptural references, yet even French himself says he thinks Tallarico is far too

progressive to win over many conservative Christians, but says there are, quote, legions

of weary Americans who aren't motivated primarily by ideologies.

So Hunter, here's my question, is French right?

So he may be right that there are Americans who are interested in hearing a Christian type

of political appeal that is not conservative or right wing in nature.

But what I think that Tallarico is peddling is not necessarily Christian at all.

I think that he has Christian language, but if you look at what he has had to say, we

are not in the neighborhood of orthodoxy.

There's nothing there.

I mean, we're talking about classic progressive Christianity of the type that, as Al Moller pointed

out, J. Gresham Machen referred to as liberalism as opposed to Christianity.

In other words, it's a different religion altogether.

I was wondering about this as I watched the primary campaign, I wondered how he would

do.

And then after he won, and I started to hear more of the things from his recent past, the

past five or six years, I realized that the opposition file on him is going to be incredible.

I mean, when people see the things that he said, and I understand it's been played here

on the podcast, you know, trans people need abortions too, that kind of stuff.

I think that most people in the state of Texas are going to be seriously turned off.

And I don't think he's even going to present the kind of threat that Beto O'Rourke did

a few years ago.

Well, Hunter Baker is provost at North Greenville University.

Thank you so much, Hunter.

Thank you.

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Coming up next on the world and everything in it, an Anglican divide and the way forward.

A group of conservative Anglicans gathered last week in Abuja Nigeria.

They took another step toward what they call the reordering of the Anglican Communion.

World's Africa reporter, Onize Odua, attended the conference and brings us details on the

group's decisions and how they may affect churches across continents.

Last week, more than 400 Anglican clergy and lay people gathered at Gafcon in Abuja

Nigeria to sing, pray and discuss issues in the denomination.

At the end of the event, Reverend Laurent Humbanda reiterated its theme.

He's the Archbishop of the Church of Rwanda.

Choose this day whom you will serve.

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Gafcon claims to represent the majority of the world's approximately 90 million Anglicans,

most of them across Africa and Asia.

These Christians say they have remained true to the Anglican Communion while the Church

of England has strayed from biblical teaching.

The conference theme of choosing whom to serve signals the group's effort to reorganize

Anglican leadership apart from the authority of Canterbury.

Some observers of the disagreement had expected the group to appoint its own replacement

for the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Instead, the group set up a council led by a top bishop.

The council also includes other clergy and lay members who all have equal voting rights.

The group selected Humbanda as chairman.

He will serve as the primary spokesperson in both ecumenical and international contexts.

And so it's more of a considerate structure.

It's a shared leadership.

It is not just one main show.

The group said the unexpected change in direction for its leadership followed prayer and guidance

from the Holy Spirit.

Reverend Paul Doniston is the group's general secretary.

The Global Anglican Council has discerned that if we are moved to move past old structures,

we must leave behind old titles as well.

Doniston told world he sees the meeting in Abuja as the most important since the group

was first founded in 2008.

At that first meeting attendees signed the Jerusalem Declaration, which all incoming members

of the Global Anglican Communion must now sign.

It lists out 14 affirmations, with points including biblical in erincy and God's design for

marriage and sexuality.

Since then, the group has increasingly called out the Church of England for changing

its stance on several doctrinal issues.

The latest objections emerged after the Church of England confirmed the first female archbishop

of Canterbury.

Doniston insisted the group isn't leaving the communion, but is rejecting the Church of England

led instruments of communion, the traditional leadership structures of global Anglicanism.

For a time, maybe they did their job, but they certainly in the last 50 years haven't

done their job.

Well, and structures come and go.

I mean, the word of our God stands forever, but the structures, just like the grass of

the field, fades and withers.

The new structuring will also forbid its leaders from attending the Anglican Communion's

traditional gatherings, including the Lambeth Conference and Primates meetings.

They can't approve any financial contributions to the Church of England, and must eventually

remove any reference to communion with Canterbury from their constitutions.

The spokesperson from the Anglican Communion acknowledged the division among the groups,

but insisted that Christ calls them to be one.

Doniston says he and others in the global Anglican Communion expect the changes to come

with challenges.

The truth is, you cannot reform anything without their being pushed back.

And so, we are always prepared for it, we don't welcome it.

Some attendees found the week of prayers and conversations and encouraging in light

of the coming changes.

Bishop Yasser Eric is originally from Sudan.

There is a narrative that developed, or the theology in the West, where it is our ideas

starting to guide the gospel and the Bible, and it's actually totally wrong.

So our ideas and whatever we think should submit to the word of God, and never be above

the word of God.

The global Anglican Communion isn't the only conservative group disillusioned with the

Church of England.

The global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches has also said it is open to hearing plans

for reform.

Doniston says some may see last week's decisions as radical, but people have to make a choice

on where they stand.

Everyone's got to work through this at their own speed, but my posture is friendship with

the world is amany with God.

And I don't say that with a lack of compassion, I mean that we're here to seek the world,

but friendship with the world over friendship with God is amany.

That's this week's world tour, I'm Onizio Dua in Abuja, Nigeria.

In his dinner more than dinner, Denmark wants to know.

The country's culture minister is exploring whether gastronomy should officially count

as art.

One chef says his elaborate tasting menus are designed for more than a full stomach.

We also convey messages through our foods, so our food is our medium of expressing

ourselves.

Yeah, but not everyone's convinced.

One Danish art critic says the whole debate is one big category mistake.

Art is art.

Gastronomy is gastronomy.

But it's not like a very good bicycle turns into a car.

It doesn't happen.

Denmark's parliament would have the final say, but if the idea passes, Danish chefs could

one day have the same cultural cachet as painters or opera singers, meaning the next masterpiece

in Copenhagen might be plated instead of painted.

It's the world and everything in it.

Today is Wednesday, March 11th.

Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day.

Good morning.

I'm Lindsay Mast.

And I'm Murna Brown.

Coming next on the world and everything in it, a church welcomes people with special needs.

Most Protestant pastors and church goers say someone with disabilities would be welcome

at the church, but one estimate states that about 80 percent of churches have no form

of special needs ministry.

And as autism rates rise, more and more families will face the prospect of feeling excluded

from church life.

World senior writer, Mary Jackson, takes us to Scottsdale, Arizona, where one congregation

took up the challenge to keep that from happening in their own church family.

We're following you by your dinner.

On a Saturday afternoon in October, Gloria Neesle and her son Cody gave me a quick tour

of Highlands Church.

It's a congregation of about 2,000 people.

We're just going to follow you, Cody.

Do you want to tell me any more about this?

This is the worship center itself and the nurseries here going through the front way on that

side.

Cody is able to use some words, but he's considered non-speaking.

He has autism and a motor disorder that makes it difficult to speak.

It's called a praxia.

In 2004, Cody became the inaugural member of Highlands Special Needs Ministry.

Missy Farrington leads that work.

We started with one little boy.

His name is Cody.

When he was four years old, he was diagnosed with autism.

He was just struggling in the typical Sunday school classroom.

So his parents at that time decided that one would stay home with him every Sunday and

home would come to church with his older brother and then they would swap weeks.

Cody's dad was an elder at the time, but he had to tell church leaders why they would

not be seeing the family together very often.

And the leadership said, well, that's unacceptable, that's an unacceptable solution.

This is happening in your family.

This must be happening in other families.

You need to be in church together as a family and Cody needs to come to church and realize

that God has a plan and purpose for his life too.

Missy was a stay-at-home mom at the time, but she has a background in special education.

So she agreed to spend time with Cody during the service.

And we would pray and I'd tell him about Jesus and we'd play in the playground and if we

could go into the classroom, I'd sit with him in the classroom and then it just grew

from there.

Cody's grown a lot too.

He's 24 now, 6'5", 225 pounds.

The morning after I toured the campus, I met Cody and his parents in the noisy foyer

just before the Sunday service.

Cody usually sits with his family for the singing portion of the service.

Then he had to do the special needs class.

On a given Sunday up to 100 people at 10 classes, Missy says the ministry is not babysitting.

It's built on the premise that participants understand a lot more than we may think.

We believe without proof that they are understanding everything that we're teaching, I believe

that someday I'm going to be held accountable and I never want to stand in front of the

Lord and say, I didn't teach them because I didn't think they would understand because

that's not an acceptable answer.

My job is to teach them and is God's job to do the rest.

The lesson is from 2nd Kings.

That's Steve Richards.

He's been volunteering in Highland Special Needs Ministry for about 4 years.

Yeah.

Slangyer.

Slangyer.

Are you ready to count?

Well, me.

And today's story, who's got a problem, who's in a relationship, a lie to you, or to your

mind.

Show me.

To your mind.

To my big job.

It's your mind.

Listen.

He's roving the room with a mic.

Most of the participants are at a table coloring.

One looks out a window, another fiddles with a toy.

The next question is for Cody.

Steve teaches the adult class every Sunday.

The church hopes to recruit more teachers, Missy admits that as a ministry grows, stopping

as a challenge, especially since volunteers need specialized training to handle the

range of physical and emotional needs they encounter.

Probably the biggest obstacles, always having enough volunteers.

I mean, there are so many things that we would love to do, but we just need more help.

But you can just...

But she tries to keep focused on the mission.

Our job is to, as teachers, to teach them about Jesus, everybody needs Jesus.

Our friends with disabilities are human, they're sinful, and they need Jesus just as much

as we do.

We hope to find more ways to involve everyone in the church.

After class, Cody volunteers at the church's coffee spot serving drinks between services.

Cody and his friends have put on plays with the church's theater ministry.

Every year, the church hosts a prom experience sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation.

They call it night to shine.

They see in her husband, who is a special needs pastor, have helped other churches start

special needs ministries.

They hope more catch the vision.

We tell them our story and how we started.

It's also important for them to realize that their story is not going to look like our

story.

Just because this is what a special needs ministry looks like at Highlands doesn't mean

that that's what God has planned for their church.

Jack and Cody's class, Steve, closed with prayer.

Reporting for World, I'm Mary Jackson in Scottsdale, Arizona.

To read more about how non-speaking individuals are learning to communicate using a method

called spelling, you can read Mary's story in the February issue of World magazine.

Good morning.

This is the world and everything in it.

From listener-supported world radio, I'm Murna Brown.

And I'm Lindsay Mast.

President Trump last week awarded the Medal of Honor to three soldiers.

Two of them posthumously, one of them in person.

One of those honors went to a World War II prisoner of war whose courage saved the lives

of more than 200 fellow soldiers.

Here's World Opinions Bethel McGrew.

On a cold February night in 2009, Christopher Edmund sat at a laptop googling his father's

name, Master Sergeant Roddy Edmunds.

Almost 24 years had passed since Roddy's two young death from congestive heart failure.

Christopher had grown up to become a pastor and have a family of his own.

One of his daughters had just done a history project that focused on her papa and how he

had been a POW in World War II.

The family kept a couple of fading diaries, she carefully scanned.

But Christopher still felt like he hadn't helped his daughter enough.

As the truth was, his father never wanted to talk about those days.

To make things more mysterious, some of those diary pages were missing.

Others were taken up with a list of names and addresses.

His father's fellow POWs, how many of them were still alive.

Christopher couldn't shake the nagging drive to learn more.

That night he scanned the results of his search and clicked on a 2008 New York Times article

that seemed at first to have nothing to do with his father.

It was about how Richard Nixon had struggled to find a residence after his famous scandal

at how a Democrat named Western Tanner had generously stepped forward to sell the disgraced

ex-president his own townhouse.

In one passing sentence, Tanner said he felt moved to do this because a man had saved

his life in a POW camp during the war.

A man named Roddy Edmonds soon Christopher would learn the full story.

On the evening of January 26, 1945, the Germans announced that only Jewish American printers

would fall out for roll call the following morning at the threat of execution.

Master Sergeant Edmonds directed his senior leaders to have all 1,200 American prisoners

present themselves for roll call.

The Nazi Commodont became incredulous after realizing that so many Americans were standing

in formation.

The Commodont removed his pistol, pressed it hard against Master Sergeant Edmonds forehead

between his eyes and demanded that he order all Jewish American prisoners to step forward

or he would be shot.

Master Sergeant Edmonds fearlessly held his ground.

That was when Edmonds gave the iconic reply, we are all Jews here.

He told the Commodont that not only would he have to kill Edmonds first, he would have

to kill every vast man standing because the end of the war was coming soon and judgment

with it.

At that, the German officer holstered his pistol, turned around and walked away.

One of the Jewish men who stood by Edmonds side that morning would later change his name

from Tannenbaum to Tanner.

And they finally met, Tanner told Christopher that he believed his father deserved the

Medal of Honor.

Yet despite his efforts to build a campaign, Tanner would not live to see it succeed.

At first, the government judged Edmonds ineligible because his actions had not taken place

in combat.

But that judgment was reversed this year.

At a special White House ceremony last Monday, Christopher Edmonds stood in for his father.

Today your father gets the honor, he so courageously earned and really amazing, right?

Amazing story.

Congratulations to the family of Master Sergeant Roddy Edmonds.

Although Christopher grew up knowing none of this remarkable story, he saw his father

as a hero for simpler, quieter reasons.

His constant, fatherly presence, his steadfast Christian faith.

In church, he became famous for belting out how great thou art in a strong booming voice.

His favorite Bible verse was Romans 837.

Yet in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

He put that faith into action through faithful service to the community of Knoxville, Tennessee.

After the war, he worked as a sales manager and quickly earned a reputation for honesty

and customer care.

Just go see Roddy.

People told their friends, he'll treat you right.

In a documentary interview, Vester Tanner laughs and jokes that Edmonds had probably never

met a Jew in Knoxville, yet when the moment of truth came, Edmonds met it, unflinchingly.

Roddy Edmonds is the only American serviceman named in Yad Vashem's righteous among the

nations, and honor he never sought and never lived to see.

But through the memories of those he saved and the children's children who would never

have been born without him, the story will endure for generations.

For World, I'm Bethelma Grue.

Tomorrow, Congress hears about a new threat from China, we'll have a report.

And the benefits of family care across the generations, that and more tomorrow.

I'm Lindsay Mast.

And I'm Ernord Brown.

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But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those

who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also.

And from one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either.

Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods, do not demand

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And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

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