Eye-Opening Perspectives for Heroic Hearts

Eye-Opening Perspectives for Heroic Hearts

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Jessica Buchanan, Somali Pirates and Rosslyn Chapel Pilgrim


by Winsip Custer CPW News Service

     Minutes before his State of the Union speech President Barack Obama learned that Jessica Buchanan and her Danish co-worker, Poul Hagen Thisted, were rescued from Somali pirates following their October, 2011 kidnapping.
     Working for a Danish demining ministry in Somalia, Jessica Buchanan had been a teacher at the Rosslyn Academy in Nairobi, Kenya.   She is also widely reported to be a resident of Bedford, Virginia and Rosslyn Virginia, just across the river from Washington, D.C.
     Stephen Buchanan, Jessica’s brother at Lee University in Clevelend, Tennessee was delighted to hear of his sister’s release.  Lee University was previously the home of Bob Jones University where both Billy Graham and Tim LeHaye attended school at the Cleveland campus.  “Tim LeHaye wrote the Left Behind series,” said one Lee University student near the Richard DeVos Recreational Center.  “We’re sure glad that Jessica wasn’t left behind in Somalia and that the Seal Team 6 did again what they had accomplished in Pakistan even though it was a different group of them," said another young man wearing an Amway cap and Blackwater t-shirt.
     “Timing is everything,” said another student..."and thank God that there weren’t any helicopters lost this time.  I’m not an Obama fan, but you’ve got to admit that God in his providence was on Obama's side last night and I hope that those SEAL warriors...the one's that really know how the game is played.... eventually get a good paying job as private contractors.”
     Meanwhile it was alternately reported that Jessica, a former student at Valley Forge College before  teaching at Rosslyn Academy and previously residing in Rosslyn, Virginia, had gained a Scottish supporter and prayer partner. Angus McGregor Buchanan of Edinburgh, Scotland was moved by the serendipitous series of events.   “I’m makin’ a special trip to Rosslyn Chapel to burn a candle for both the Seal Team 6 and the two rescued demining experts,” said Mr. Buchanan who is not aware of any family connections to Jessica, but whose grandson spent years building land mines.  "First he built them and then went to work as a deminer for another humanitarian group.  "That boy saw a silver lining in every cloud," said Buchanan.
     Sources in Kenya indicate that Kenyans are bursting with pride in the recent turn of events.  Some indicated that a marker showing the birthplace of Barack Obama was a fitting show of appreciation for the U.S. mission to bring security to a region characterized by lawlessness and corruption, a sentiment shared by the Mike in the Morning radio show on WRIF radio, Detroit, Michigan.

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