Cooking With Anna

Cooking with Anna Stress Of The Unknown

by Anna Hamilton

So, how are you guys all doing? Are you able to stay focused on healthy choices? Have you let yourself fall back into old habits? I know this “safer-at-home” order has done a number on my path to a healthier me. I have been working from home since the order was issued by our governor, and while I love staying home for work, it also is been incredibly difficult for me not to just sit down with a bag of chips and pig out while I report sales for the company. I am on the struggle bus you guys. I know the good I should do, but still do not do it! Are you the same way? Please, tell me I’m not alone in this. Not only have I not been feeding my body with good nutrition, I have been fighting sickness. This week I have been a pincushion at the doctor’s office. They are trying desperately to determine what is going on with my body. They are testing me for all kinds of auto-immune diseases, and I hope to have the results soon. The stress of the unknown has added to my stress eating for sure. It’s a mindless way to just completely veg out for a moment and not obsess over things out of my control. I’m struggling to find a healthy balance between concern and total mayhem. The only

Antipasto Zucchini Noodle “Pasta” Salad

Ingredients:

2 packs of zucchini noodles (found in fresh produce) 1 cup diced artichoke hearts 1/4 cup diced mozzarella cheese 1/4 cup diced salami 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, halved 1/4 cup olives, halved 1 heaping tablespoon capers 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 tablespoon white balsamic or red wine vinegar 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon Greek seasoning Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions: In a large bowl combine zucchini noodles, artichoke hearts, diced mozzarella, diced salami, halved cherry tomatoes, olives, and capers. In a small bowl, whisk together lemon juice, vinegar, olive oil, and Greek seasoning. Drizzle the vinaigrette over the zucchini salad. Toss to combine. Season salad with salt and pepper to taste. Cover salad and let thing I know for sure is that God has promised to take care of his children, and my faith is firm that He will. I may be struggling now, but it is for a purpose and everything will work together in the end. This week’s recipe is a great summer “pasta” salad. It truly is delicious and doesn’t feel like you are eating something healthy. Kids love it, husbands love it, and your cousin Karen will love it! Trust me; this one is a keeper. “The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1

refrigerate 4-6 hours and up to over night before serving. I love everything in this salad except artichoke hearts. If you love artichokes, make the recipes as is. I like to take a baked chicken breast and dice it up in place of the artichoke hearts. It bumps up the protein and is delicious.

Cover Story Unsung Heroes: The Vietnam War Casualties And The Facts We Forgot To Remember

by Ali Elizabeth Turner

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undertaken the task of finding the graves of 23 Morgan County men who died in Vietnam. They had also ded icated themselves to making sure that these brave, fallen ones received the honor they were due, even if it had been a half-century in com ing. Bill said the following to Lisa, and she knew right away that this book had to be her next project. “They fought under the US flag, and they came home in coffins draped with the US flag. They deserve to have a US flag flying over their fi nal resting place.” As I interviewed Lisa via Zoom, I had to take sev eral minutes to regain my composure when she con veyed Bill’s words to me. The gravity of the above statement for me was great, especially when you con sider that 50 years ago, I was someone who had been seduced by socialism and thought of soldiers as “baby killers.” There are no words

it was Castro, Mao, or Ho Chi Minh, in His place), hon oring the casualties of war eventually became passé and even inappropriate. Lisa painstakingly dived deeply into the “facts of the matter” as to the cause of the craziness that was unique to the era and provides ten full pages of end notes. It be comes clear within the pages of Unsung Heroes that the media convinced our culture to buy into a giant lie, the re sult being that the fabric of that culture came perilously close to unraveling com pletely and irreparably. We were brought to the brink, and if we are not careful, we could get there again without a whole lot of effort. What Lisa came to realize as a result of her research is that Hitler took a position in the hearts of Germans that right fully belongs to God alone, and as “der Führer,” he saw to describe the redemptive honor I feel at being able to commend Lisa’s work to our readers, and my fond hope is that you will devour this book. It is life-changing, and I don’t use that word lightly. In the early days of the war in Vietnam, those who had been killed in action came home to a nation which both revered them and buried them with full military honors. Sadly though, as time went on and our nation reeled under the singular oppression which comes from abandoning God (and putting a man, whether Army Pfc Tommy Lee Nicholas

Born March 3, 1944 Died February 23. 1966 (aged 21) Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam

Lisa Worthey Smith worked together with Bill and Heather Collins to faithfully tell the stories of local Unsung Heroes of the Vietnam War.

himself as “the ultimate leader” or “the guide” (as his name means), who alone would get Germany where they needed to go. The Kims of North Korea tradition ally get referred to as “the Dear Leader,” Ho Chi Minh means “He who enlightens,” Mao means “true center,” and what they all have in common is that untold mil lions died under their “leadership.” Lisa shows inarguably that socialism was and still is a real global threat; that China would have taken Vietnam; and speaking anecdotally, I personally know a Viet nam vet who, when he was in the infantry, found caches of weapons that sported ei ther the Chinese or Russian red star. The often-mocked “domino theory” was in fact nothing to joke about, and to this day the people of Viet nam are grateful that we wanted to help them while we protected ourselves. CBS legend Walter Cronkite reported on the war while he was in theatre. His opin ion of an apparent stalemate caused us to lose our re solve, and that “fake news” convinced LBJ that the war was lost. The result was the drawdown that ultimately doomed Saigon and all of South Vietnam. What became apparent was that the cost of freedom was too high in the minds of Americans, especially the youth. Unlike their parents, they had never faced down a Great Depression or a despot, and had no skin in the game when it came to preserving true liberty. Yet, they insisted on the benefits of freedom continuing unin terrupted, and now we face nearly unbridled entitlement nearly everywhere we turn. Is there good news in all of this? Yes! We can’t go back and change what happened or how we got deceived, but we can honor the fallen and educate anyone who is willing to get to the bottom of what happened and learn from it. And everything you need to start that process is contained in this gem of a book entitled Unsung Heroes, by Lisa Worthey Smith. Get yours today, and let the healing begin.