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HOLIDAY SPECIALS OF CHEROKEE TRAVEL |
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"PEACE
AT HOME PEACE IN THE WORLD"
M. KEMAL ATATURK |
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''THOSE
HEROES THAT THEIR BLOOD AND LOSE THEIR LIVES.....YOU ARE NOW LYING IN
THE SOIL OF A FRIENDLY COUNTRY. THEREFORE REST IN PEACE. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE JOHNNIES AND THE MEHMETS TO US WHERE THEY LIE SIDE BY SIDE
HERE IN THIS COUNTRY OF OURS..... YOU, THE MOTHERS, WHO SENT THEIR SONS
FROM FAR AWAY COUNTRIES WIPE AWAY YOUR TEARS; YOUR SONS ARE NOW LYING
IN OUR BOSOM AND ARE IN PEACE. AFTER HAVING LOST THEIR LIVES ON THIS LAND
THEY HAVE BECOME OUR SONS AS WELL'' |
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"COME,
COME, COME. WHOEVER YOU ARE. WHAT EVER YOU ARE, COME..."
MEVLANA CELALEDDIN RUMI |
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SPIRIT
OF CHRISTMAS
DO YOU REMEMBER THE POEM THAT STARTS OUT: "IT WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS WHEN ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE, NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING, NOT EVEN A MOUSE; THE STOCKINGS WERE HUNG BY THE CHIMNEY WITH CARE, IN HOPES THAT ST. NICHOLAS SOON WOULD BE THERE..." IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1822 BY CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE, A WEALTHY MANHATTAN RESIDENT, AND THE SON OF THE FIRST EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF NEW YORK. HE WAS A DEDICATED CHURCH MAN AND DEVOTED TO HIS FAMILY. ST. NICHOLAS WAS SUPPOSEDLY BORN IN PATARA APPROXIMATELY 270 YEARS AFTER CHRIST. PATARA IS ABOUT 350 MILES NORTHWEST OF BETHLEHEM ON THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, IN LYCIA, WHICH IS TODAY PART OF TURKEY. |
 SANTA CLAUS CHURCH IN DEMRE-ANTALYA |
