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Subscriptions can be purchased for $30 for six months or $60 for 12 months, delivered weekly by first class mail. ©2007 by F&B Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of editorial or advertisements without permission is strictly prohibited. INSIDE Cover photo: Wick Smith Calendar. .......................................... 14 . Concert Connection......................... 18 TV...................................................... 20 Movie................................................ 20 PUBLISHER'S PEN Lessons in Thankfulness by JANICE BURTON Holidays are filled with tradition. In my family, as in many families, Today, more than 60,000 of them are still living under blue tarps on we have a special Thanksgiving tradition. Before we sit down at the table the medians of the roadways and in the stadium that survived the battle. to enjoy our meal together, we go around the room and share with each There are no international aid groups passing out food. No one is offering other the things for which we are thankful. to help them rebuild. But they are thankful for a kind word, for a smile. Usually, our comments are pretty in line with The children laugh and they play. They still have each other. We give thanks for our family. We give their families. A foreign visitor is greeted with a thanks that we live in our country and for those smile and a "hello." who stand the line to ensure our freedoms. We It's hard for me to understand their give thanks for the blessings of our God and the acceptance of their lot and harder still to works he does in our lives. Some of you may also understand their resolute way of going forward. give thanks for these same things. A few days later, I went to the typhoonAnd while I always thought that I understood affected area of the country. On Tacloban, I saw what it truly means to be thankful, I have scores of people whose whole world was ripped discovered I was wrong. Over the past couple of apart when the 30-foot wave washed over the weeks, I have had daily lessons and insights into island. Their friends and families were dead. what thankfulness really looks like. I saw it on the Their homes were destroyed. Sitting on the hot streets of Zamboanga City and it was reinforced The typhoon that hit the Philippines earlier this year tarmac of the airfield, they clustered together. on the airfields of Tacloban and Ormock. So while left the country devastated. Tired, overwhelmed, they still smiled and talked I will still give thanks for the things listed above, I openly about what they had lost. will add the following: The anger we are seeing on television is not I will give thanks for the roof over my head, for I have walked among the norm. It is not what pervades the area. Instead, there is a sense of those who do not have one. I will give thanks for the yard I hate to mow, thankfulness for survival; for those who have come to help. because many in the world would be thankful for the green grass. Instead Inland at Ormock, I met a little girl named Mai. Mai is 5. Her father of bemoaning my electric bill, I will give thanks for electricity and clean was killed in the storm. She, her mother, grandmother and little brother water; because many have neither. I will also give thanks for the job I have are trying to make their way to another island. They had been at the that allows me to pay those bills. I will give thanks for our government, airfield for four days. while broken, still works better than most. I will continue to give thanks Mai followed me as I made my way around the airfield, first at a for our men and women in uniform, because for many around the world, distance, and then at my side. She giggled as she pointed out her brother. they are the face of hope for those in dire straits. He is tall. She is small. Someone, a soldier probably, had given her candy. Few in our nation know anything about Zamboanga City, but we As I talked with her, she tried to share it with me. She has nothing. No should. Zamboanga is in the Southern Philippines. It is an historic city home. No toys. No clothes. The clothes on her back came from a box that has seen its share of conquerors. The Spanish first laid claim to it in that was flown in. Someone would think she had no hope, but that wasn't the 1600s. Later, Americans became a part of its history. It was a thriving the case. In the face of tremendous loss and the terror of the storm, she city, marked largely by the fishing villages that line its coast. In September, smiled and offered kindness, as did her mother. it became a killing ground when an extremist Muslim group came silently I watched them and I reflected on how I would be in that situation. into the city through its waterways, taking 300 villagers hostage. Their Would I be thankful? Would you? goal was to derail a long-fought peace process between the government As you enjoy your family this Thanksgiving, remember of the Philippines and Muslim extremist groups in the region. those who have so much less, but appreciate what they Over the next three weeks, a fierce battle raged throughout the city. Fire have so much. Give engulfed large parts of it. More than 100,000 people were left homeless thanks for the big and many died. It never made it to page one of our nation's newspapers things and the small. JANICE BURTON, Associate Publisher, Up & Coming Weekly. COMMENTS? or topped the headlines on our 24-hour news cycle. The plight of those They truly matter. editor@upandcomingweekly.com. people has never made it there either. 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