Middle East Conflicts Memorial, Marseilles, IL
On the banks of the Illinois River. NIFE (Northern Illinois Fiero Enthusiasts) visited here on our spring 2016 tour.
IV Cellular - Veteran's Day: Middle East Conflicts Memorial Wall
JC and Cheryl O'Brien from Illinois Valley Cellular tour the Middle East Conflicts Wall and Museum in Marseilles, Illinois on this Veteran's Day, 2011.
Middle East Conflicts Wall
2014 Freedom Run on June 21, 2014 in Marseilles, IL
Middle East Conflicts Memorial Wall
Iraq War Casualties Remembered at Illinois Memorial
The legacy of the war in Iraq, one of the longest conflicts fought by the U.S. military, has yet to be measured. Kane Farabaugh reports the cost of that war is visible at a memorial in the midwestern state of Illinois.
Too Many Names
This song was written while visiting the Middle East Conflict Memorial Wall in Marseilles, IL. While there, I was hit with an eerie sort of serene feeling that this was the first memorial I had visited that had names of people I knew personally and had served with.
The words came to me as I sat there, and I grabbed a piece of parchment paper and wrote them out. The bones of this song came together in less than 10 minutes. This song is dedicated to all those who gave their lives in the name of American freedom. This is the 2nd release form my debut EP, #Forever29, which can be purchased here: 25% of the proceeds will be donated to the #USO #Navy #military #memorial #USA
FREEDOM RUN MARSEILLES 2014 / THE SALUTING MARINE
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Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run - 2011
The 9th Annual Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run from Morris, IL to Marseilles, Illinois. In this video, you will see the construction of the Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial and the following Freedom Run.
OA and MT @ Illinois Freedom Run #1
We visited an overpass for the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run
Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run 2009
Video of the 2009 Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run on June 20th 2009. The run started in Morris IL at the Grundy County Fairgrounds and Went to Marseilles IL where you can find the Middle East Conflicts Memorial Wall, a wall which contains the names of all the fallen soldiers that have died in combat in the middle east since 1997. All proceeds go to the upkeep of the wall and unfortunately to adding more names For more information you can go to ilfreedomrun.org
Fmr. Army Ranger Joe Trainor Jr, Guest Speaker for Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run
Fmr. Army Ranger / 1pet1vet.com Founder: Joe Trainor Jr
Guest Speaker for Illinois Motorcycle Freedom - June 21, 2014
Middle East Conflicts Memorial Wall, Marseilles, IL
1pet1vet.com is an Illinois based Non-For-Profit organization dedicated to saving and re-disciplining that ONE Dog sentenced to be euthanized and be paired with ONE Veteran to help cope with today's transitional issues. We work to give both a chance to begin their new chapter in life together as ONE. Plus, we heighten awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), suicides, incarcerations and homelessness amongst our Veterans along with senseless euthanization of our canine companions. We do our part to allow our American Heroes to live their American Dream,the one which they fought so hard to preserve for us.
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Illinois Motorycle Freedom Run 2016
IMFR 2016
Hundreds/thousands of motorcycles and people join together for a ride to support our troops.
Kevin Chalfant at the Freedom Run Event June 20th 2009
This is a video of Kevin Chalfant of The Storm singing God Bless America at the Marseilles, Illinois Freedom Run for the Middle East Conflicts Memorial Wall. Every year a run is sponsored by The Illinois Freedom Run that includes thousands and thousands of motorcyclists and is truly awe inspiring. The wall is the only one of it's kind in the United States. It honors United States Servicemembers who have died in Middle East Conflicts. It is a beautiful memorial in Illinois and if you ever get a chance to visit please do so. They have the run the third Saturday of June every year.
Kevin was a part of it this year as well as Governor Quinn of Illinois and many families of servicemembers killed and whose names are on the wall. Please visit their website at:
Also, sorry about the quality. If I knew this was going to take place with Kevin, I would have brought a better camera. Hopefully someone else out there has a video to post as well.
16th Annual Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run - 2018 Part 4
Grundy County Fairgrounds - Morris, IL to Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial - Marseilles, IL
Illinois Freedom Run 2014 - Honor and Remember Ceremony Part 1
Illinois Freedom Run, Marseilles, IL 2014 - Explanation of the meaning of the Honor and Remember Flag by founder, George Lutz. Presentations to follow on Part 2.
A View From Two -/- Proudly Honors the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run
A View From Two was honored to have the privilege of an entire evening Honoring The Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run/Middle East Conflict Wall and Gold Star Moms. Joe's Bar - Joliet along with Conrad's Harley Davidson sponsered this incredible evening. AVMRA Chapter 7 presented the Color Guard, Laurie Westberg-Martin sang The National Anthem, Mike Hough led us in The Pledge of Allegiance with Alan Larsen, Internatinally Renowned Bugle Player, closing the Opening Ceremony by playing Taps. And that was just the beginning! Join us for an emotional, poignant interview with Tom Big Daddy Yarber, President of the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run and Mille Anderson Hickey, one of our beloved Gold Star Moms. This show has a very special place in our hearts and we ask of you to share to all to raise awareness of the Middle East Conflict Wall in Marseilles, IL. Joe's Bar donated $1,000.00 and 100% of the raffle proceeds raised an additional $1,147.00! A Special Thanks to the United Souls Motorcycle Association, Chapter 2 for their assistance as well as the many vendors that donated their wares and their time! Thanks for all the good that YOU do! Ride Safe! 2DL
16th Annual Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run - 2018 Part 1
Grundy County Fairgrounds - Morris, IL to Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial - Marseilles, IL
Moab 2013 Pledge of Allegiance
Mentoring works, Honoring all our Heroes aka Soldiers of our Country, at an Young Age .
Six Year Old Boys Leads 4 Wheeler Crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance
47th Annual Moab Easter Jeep Safari 2013 ...and our Pledge of Allegiance given by a six year old boy whom aides our soldiers by making patriotic pillow cases to raise money for his heroes. At the end of the week, he saluted and led all the 4-Wheelers in attendance at the Red Rock 4-Wheelers Give Away night with this Patriotic agenda in the Old Spanish Trail Arena. It was sincerely heartfelt in honoring our nation and soldiers worldwide with our Pledge of Allegiance, note the placing of the his cap over the heart during the presentation.
This is what Patriotic mentoring is all about ....again he is only Six Years Old, DC Swafford .He did not flinch in leading the 4-Wheelers crowd on the center stage, with the Pledge of Allegiance. Again thereby honoring soldiers and aiding all present afterwards about the, Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial National Monument, with Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run volunteer, Robert Biker Bob -Cooch Kuczera.The monument is engraved with the names of all our fallen heroes (servicemen and women) who have lost their lives in world wide conflicts since 1979. It is sadly updated annually the third Saturday in June .It is located in Marseilles, Ill. (Exit-97 off I-80). For more information about the upcoming 48th Annual Moab Easter Jeep Safari / Red Rock 4-wheelers, Inc. Visit their club web-site at: rr4w.com . For more info about the Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial visit: ilfreedomrun.org
And Always Remember as the Young Man DC Swafford does: Support Our Troops.
Berber people | Wikipedia audio article
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- Socrates
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Berbers, or Amazighs (Berber languages: ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵗⴻⵏ, Imaziɣen; singular: ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵗ, Amaziɣ), are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa, primarily inhabiting Algeria, northern Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, northern Niger, Tunisia, Libya and a part of western Egypt.
Berbers are distributed in an area stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Niger River in West Africa. Historically, they spoke Berber languages, which together form the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. Since the Muslim conquest of North Africa in the 7th century, a large number of Berbers inhabiting the Maghreb (Tamazgha) have in varying degrees used a lingua franca, which in most cases is a Maghrebi Arabic dialect. After the colonization of North Africa by France, the French government succeeded in integrating the French language in Algeria by making French the official national language and requiring all education to take place in French. Foreign languages, mainly French and to some degree Spanish, inherited from former European colonial powers, are used by most educated Berbers in Algeria and Morocco in some formal contexts, such as higher education or business.
Most Berber people live in North Africa, mainly in Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Small Berber populations are also found in Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Egypt as well as large immigrant communities living in France, Spain, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and other countries of Europe.The majority of Berbers are Sunni Muslim. The Berber identity is usually wider than language and ethnicity and encompasses the entire history and geography of North Africa. Berbers are not an entirely homogeneous ethnicity, and they encompass a range of societies and ancestries. The unifying forces for the Berber people may be their shared language or a collective identification with Berber heritage and history.
There are some 25–30 million Berber speakers in North Africa. The number of ethnic Berbers (including non-Berber speakers) is far greater, as a large part of the Berbers have acquired other languages over the course of many decades or centuries and no longer speak Berber today. The majority of North Africa's population is believed to be Berber in origin, although due to Arabization most ethnic Berbers identify as Arabized Berbers.Berbers call themselves some variant of the word i-Mazigh-en (singular: a-Mazigh), possibly meaning free people or noble men. The name probably had its ancient parallel in the Roman and Greek names for Berbers, Mazices. Some of the best known of the ancient Berbers are the Numidian king Masinissa, king Jugurtha, the Berber-Roman author Apuleius, Saint Augustine of Hippo, and the Berber-Roman general Lusius Quietus, who was instrumental in defeating the major wave of Jewish revolts of 115–117. Dihya, or Kahina, was a religious and military leader who led a fierce Berber resistance against the Arab-Muslim expansion in Northwest Africa. Kusaila was a 7th-century leader of the Awraba tribe of the Berber people and King of the Sanhadja confederation. Yusuf ibn Tashfin was king of the Berber Almoravid dynasty; Tariq ibn Ziyad the general who conquered Hispania; Abbas Ibn Firnas, a prolific inventor and early pioneer in aviation; Ibn Battuta, a medieval explorer who traveled the longest known distances of his time.
Averroes | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ابن رشد; full name Arabic: أبو الوليد محمد ابن احمد ابن رشد, translit. Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd; 1126 – 11 December 1198), often Latinized as Averroes (), was a Muslim Andalusian philosopher and thinker who wrote about many subjects, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics. His philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the West as The Commentator. He also served as a judge and a court physician for the Almohad caliphate.
He was born in Córdoba in 1126 to a family of prominent judges—his grandfather was the celebrated chief judge of the city. In 1169 he was introduced to the caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf, who was impressed with his knowledge, became his patron and commissioned many of Averroes' commentaries. Averroes later served multiple terms as a judge in Seville and Córdoba. In 1182, he was appointed as court physician and the chief judge of Córdoba. After Abu Yusuf's death in 1184, he remained in royal favor until he fell into disgrace in 1195. He was targeted on various charges—likely for political reasons—and was exiled to nearby Lucena. He returned to royal favor shortly before his death on 11 December 1198.
Averroes was a strong proponent of Aristotelianism; he attempted to restore what he considered the original teachings of Aristotle and opposed the Neoplatonist tendencies of earlier Muslim thinkers, such as Al-Farabi and Avicenna. He also defended the pursuit of philosophy against criticism by Ashari theologians such as Al-Ghazali. Averroes argued that philosophy was permissible in Islam and even compulsory among certain elites. He also argued scriptural text should be interpreted allegorically if it appeared to contradict conclusions reached by reason and philosophy. His legacy in the Islamic world was modest for geographical and intellectual reasons.
In the West, Averroes was known for his extensive commentaries on Aristotle, many of which were translated into Latin and Hebrew. The translations of his work reawakened Western European interest in Aristotle and Greek thinkers, an area of study that had been widely abandoned after the fall of the Roman Empire. His thoughts generated controversies in Latin Christendom and triggered a philosophical movement called Averroism based on his writings. His unity of the intellect thesis, proposing that all humans share the same intellect, became one of the most well-known and controversial Averroist doctrines in the West. His works were condemned by the Catholic Church in 1270 and 1277. Although weakened by the condemnations and sustained critique by Thomas Aquinas, Latin Averroism continued to attract followers up to the sixteenth century.