Month: July 2024

Pat Boone’s Message to America

At 90 years old, pop music legend, Pat Boone, re-emerges from the 1950’s with a voice that hasn’t aged much and a crucial message for fellow Americans to bring our nation back to its roots. Watch a sample video clip of his just-released song, Where Did America Go?, here, and download it from Spotify or other source. Listen to it in its entirety here. Read further about this entertainment icon’s amazing life below.

Patirck Charles Eugene Boone was born on June 1, 1934, in Jacksonville, Florida. In the early and mid-50’s, he rose in the charts as a teen idol and an alternative to the Elvis Presley-type rock and roll. In 1957, at age 23, he began hosting an ABC variety TV show, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, which ran for 115 episodes. Heading the charts among his 38 Top-40 hits were, “Love Letters in the Sand,” ” April Love,” “Moody River,” and “Speedy Gonzales.” He sold 50 million records. During this time of peak popularity, he wrote a Christian-oriented book for teens titled, Twixt Twelve and Twenty. Although listening to Elvis a lot as a preteen, I was smitten by Pat Boone. I read every word of his book. In the 60’s, he devoted more studio and stage time to gospel music and later became a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

At 19 years old, Boone married Shirley Foley, daughter of country music great, Red Foley, and they had four daughters: Cherry, Linda, Debby, and Laurey. The girls are now 70, 69, 68, and 66 respectively. Although all four daughters sang together publicly as children, only Debby had a successful singing career. Her biggest hit was “You Light Up My Life,” which was at the top of the Billboard for ten weeks. Below is the young Boone family in a casual setting followed by the couple shortly before Shirley passed away in 2019 at the age of 84.

Pat Boone now resides in Beverly Hills, California. While not being very active in the music world since the 1960’s, has been a popular motivational speaker and conservative political commentator throughout his life. He is very concerned about the direction of America at present. Please download “Where Did America Go” from your favorite music source and share it with your friends and family. Let’s make this an election year theme song by a real patriot.

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The Miracles: Three Hair-widths and a Head Turn from Assassination

Much has been reported about how close former President Trump came to being assassinated Saturday, July 13. However, a further look shows jaw-dropping calculations indicating his survival was nothing short of miraculous. Let’s look at some astronomical scientific odds that should convince the most dubious skeptic of God’s hand in the preservation of this man’s life.

That bullet fired at 6:11 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday pierced Trump’s upper ear called the helix, actually excising a small piece of flesh. Had the bullet been just an inch to the right at impact, it would have penetrated his brain virtually assuring death. It is mind-boggling how little rifle barrel movement would have been required for the shot to have been fatal. There is a mathmatical calculation to bring this into even better perspective.

In the realm of firearms, there is a term called Minute of Angle, or MOA. Simplified, it is a formula for determining the adjustment a shooter must make to ensure the desired point of impact. I did a quick study and some number crunching to determine how much the rifle used by the wannabe assassin would have had to moved to have accomplished his objective.

The most exact distance I was able to find from the shooter’s rooftop position to Trump’s stage position was 127 yards. At that range, the shooter would have needed to move the muzzle of his AR-15-like rifle a microscopic 0.01 inch to the right to have vectored the bullet into the former president’s brain. That is the width of three average human hairs. All other factors being the same, if the end of the rifle barrel had been three hair-widths to the right when the trigger was squeezed, the result would have been an assassination rather than a flesh wound. The non-lethal shot was not a coincidence. it was a supernatural act of God and His angels!

And, there was another miracle. One second before the bullet was photographed in a still shot splitting the air, Trump’s head was turned toward the audience behind him. As the weapon was fired, he turned toward the jumbotron screen just in time to align his head with the bullet’s trajectory. If he had looked at the backdrop crowd one second longer or had turned back to face the main audience instead of the screen, the bullet would have entered the left or right side of his skull respectively. Instead, he faced the parallel path of the bullet which missed his head by a half-inch and his brain by an inch. That, too, was not a coincidence but rather God’s merciful protection.

Both the shooter’s three-hair-widths-off marksmanship AND the former president’s “random” head movements were essential to preventing an assassination. It is not often that the whole nation gets to witness miracles like these. Now, God’s purpose in the miracles may be unfolding before our eyes. It is refreshing to be experiencing God’s positive intervention in the life of America. Can we keep it from being just a temporary experience?

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