We lost 36,574 soldiers in the Korean War. 58,220 in Vietnam. 116,516 in World War 1 and 405,399 in World War 2. Another important metric in helping us understand the impact of each of those 4 wars as was felt in our hometown communities, is to consider the percentage of America’s population at that time that were lost. In Korea .02% of Americans gave their lives. It was .03% in Vietnam. This jumped to .13% in WW I and .31% in WW II. [i] We lost more than all four of those wars combined in the Civil War. We lost 618,000 American lives in that conflict that tried to rip our nation apart. A staggering 1.9% of our population at the time was lost in the fight.[ii] In addition to the 618,000 military lives lost, unlike every other war mentioned, all the estimated 50,000 civilian related deaths were American citizens…
2021 May
On March 14th of 2020, I packed up my stuff from an event I had just spoken at in South Carolina. We didn’t know how serious Covid was or would become. Dave Grossman told me as were packing up, “this is at least a full-dress rehearsal.” Events that were booked for the coming weeks started canceling like dominoes. After the President addressed the nation the following Monday (on 3/16/20), the nation shut down. First for 30 days. Then longer. Then longer still. Every event the FBSN had scheduled shut down, including our 3rd annual summit scheduled for July of 2020. When we started planning the 2021 summit event, the reality of it happening in Colorado remained questionable. Texas was already standing as other states began coming out from our Covid holes. In November of 2020, the Second Baptist Church in Houston welcomed us to consider their facility. We accepted. We…
Here are the speaker profiles for the upcoming SOS 21 event in Houston, TX. A full invitation (with a registration link) will be provided on this page next week. 7/22 through 7/24/21. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE