Monthly Archives: October 2018

The older I have gotten, the more oppressed has become my spirit regarding Halloween, the annual celebration of death and evil.  Because of the evil associated with Halloween, many of us who follow Christ choose not to participate. But my wife and I consider every day, including October the thirty-first, to belong to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  We concede no day to the adversary.  We further believe that all of Satan’s works will backfire on him and ultimately…..

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A young Second Lieutenant walked into the repo-depo, looking for thirty men to augment his ambulance company, their AGCT scores and their prowess as softball players being his chief criteria. “There’s a guy still in the hospital who’s a pretty good ball player,” he was told. The officer went to the hospital and there met Corporal Frederick John Patterson.  The two talked for a while.  Fred had been through hell—and looked it.  The officer had seen plenty of battle fatigue…..

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Fred and the others were taken behind German lines and put to work loading supplies and spare parts onto trucks.  During the task Fred accidentally dropped a heavy gear used on tank tracks on his foot, breaking it.  When it was time for the Germans to move out, the prisoners were loaded onto a tank.  Fred was put inside because of his broken foot.  Later they were transferred to a truck. Night fell as the German convoy made its way…..

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