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When Did Failure To Bring Our People Home Become an Option?
Upon Our Greatest Rescue Mission’s 50th Anniversary, An American Family’s Desperate Plea For Help Presents A Stark Reality
In three weeks, we will celebrate fifty years since NASA’s mission control team in Houston worked tirelessly to save the lives of three astronauts, following a disaster while en route to the moon on Apollo 13.
Despite catastrophe at an altitude of 200,000 miles from the earth’s surface — Mission flight director Eugene Krantz pronounced to his team that “failure is not an option.” Those words prompted a successful rescue effort.
This past Tuesday night, many know that Joe Biden won the Arizona primary. However, few know that three Arizona citizens are just a few of the hundreds being held hostage by the Peruvian President. “His Excellency,” Martin Vizcarra, appears to be leveraging U.S. citizens, amidst a global pandemic, in hopes of increased foreign aid.
One of those citizens is Joya Schmidt, 48 of Prescott, Arizona. Schmidt, along with her husband, Dayton Turberville, 62, and their nine-year-old son, Henry, 9, are unable to leave their airport hotel in Lima, Peru. In a video posted on her Facebook page last night, Schmidt alleged that citizens of nations such as…
