National Security: Ash Wednesday

Joe Boyles Guest Columnist Today is Ash Wednesday, the Chrisitan festival that marks the beginning of the season of Lent. Lent lasts forty days (excluding Sundays) and commemorates Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness before beginning his three-year ministry. Included during this period is his thrice temptation by Satan, each of which is rejected. These events are all included in the three Synoptic Gospels written by Matthew, Mark and Luke, so the provenance or documentary proof is so