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Photo courtesy of the Franklin Collection.
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My father who never told us anything about the second longest battle in WW2, in his nineties recalled being driven beyond flesh and blood endurance ─ during the Battle of Buna’s perpetual rain ─ covered in and laying in the mud, and in the paresis of exhaustion, he overheard two new recruits question: “Is he dead.”
Almost a year later, after being release from a military hospital, he finally went home to that farm in Missouri ─ got on his Oliver 70, with iron lug wheels, and plowed, in the rain, throughout the night.
"Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?” (Psalms 56:8, David in the vale of tears).©2018 Christian. Textual content may be copied and distributed, but it may not be sold. https://a-hillside-church.blogspot.com/
