The Halo-Halo Bistro

Submitted by Herm Valenzuela An Immigrant's Prayer (Author anonymous) Lift every voice and sing -From those who landed here; Till earth and heaven's ring. Ring with the harmonies of liberty then cheer. Let our rejoicing rise high as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of faith that dark past has taught us. Sing a song full of hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won. Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast'ning rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with our steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our father's just dreamt. We have come, over a way that with tears have been watered, Out of our gloomy past. Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright stars is cast. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way, Thou who hast by Thy might, ...

By Herm Valenzuela I was going thru my computer to delete most postings and clear-up my overloaded "bank" for the new year and came upon this commentary I thought you'd be interested to read. There are over 200,00 American women, including children & elderly, who are abused and mistreated in the U.S. yearly and over a million world-wide. This includes the clitorial castration of Africans before they reach menstruation, selling girls in the Indian sub-continent as boys are preferred, slavery in other poor countries including the harvesting of body parts for organ donors, suicide bombers from Al Queda or Talibans, stoning Muslim women who are seen with a male not her relative, incest or other physical abuse including demeaning verbal harangues that lead to lowered self-esteem that leads to prostitution. You don't have to be a psychologist to predict the long-term effects- mental dysfunction, depressions, alcoholism and/or drug abuse or a doomed future even if they c...