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Ringing that Bell

Published November 30, 2008, 11:55 pm, McKinney Courier-Gazette

Members of the Salvation Army work hard to be worthy of their name. I had always thought of the Salvation Army as brass bands, temperance sermons, and people with red cauldrons ringing bells while they blocked the entrances to malls and grocers during Christmastime.

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