Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento, author

An Odd Fellow bases his thoughts and actions on healthy philosophical principles. He believes that life is a commitment to improve and elevate the character of humanity through service and example. He is humble in a way that he never boasts about himself. He knows and accepts his strengths and weaknesses and keeps away from badmouthing people and making unreasonable allegations. He understands that certain things in life are unavoidable. He is aware of the vanity of earthly things, the frailty and inevitable decay of human life and the fact that wealth has no power to stop the sureness of eventual death. He then asks the question, “How am I going to spend my life?” An Odd Fellow is an advocate of FRIENDSHIP and never looks at people with prejudiced eyes or bases his judgment on outward appearances. He supports the idea that all people, irrespective of creed, race, color, nationality, social status, sex, rank and station are brothers and sisters. He does not take an undue ...

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill ,  (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the  Second World War  (WWII). He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as  prime minister  twice (1940– 45  and  1951 – 55 ). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an  officer  in the British Army, a historian, writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only  British prime minister  to have received the  Nobel Prize in Literature , and the first person to be recognised as an  honorary citizen of the United States .   He was a member of Loyal Waterloo Lodge of the National Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Source: Membership records. BOOK NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON! The book, " Odd Fellows - Rediscovering 200 Years of History, Traditions and Community Service ", is available on differen...

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974)  was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, social activist and member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Lindbergh, then a 25-year old U.S. Air Mail pilot, emerged from virtual obscurity to almost instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May 20–21, 1927, from Roosevelt Field[N 1] located in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles, in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh, a U.S. Army reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh relentlessly used his fame to help promote the rapid development of U.S. commercial aviation. In March 1932, however, his infant son, Charles, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what was soon dubbed the "Crime of...