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Admiral Grau PRO
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007 (message contributor)
ADMIRAL GRAU
At all the military reviews in Peru there have a custom by which they pay honor to Admiral Grau, Peru’s noblest naval hero, killed in battle off the coast of Chile. Always at roll-call, Admiral Grau’s is the first name called. An orderly steps forward and pointing upward answers, "Absent but accounted for. He is with the heroes."
So we may call...
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