It was six years ago and our nation was attempting to recover from the Great Recession of 2008. Our Vice President, Joe Biden, was in Washington giving a speech about the Recovery Act when these news reporters described his Ash Wednesday ashes as some sort of an injury.

I'll never get over Kay Burley of Sky News mistaking the ashes on his forehead from Ash Wednesday as the result of him walking into a door.

She was humbled and soon called herself a bad catholic for not remembering this religious symbol.

I must admit, with my schedule, getting to church on a Wednesday afternoon, or evening, is almost impossible making it easy to forget this symbol of my faith as well.

[Matt Wardman]

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