NOT ALONE
As a POW in Vietnam, Col. Laird Gunnert was beaten and tortured mercilessly. Between “interrogations,” he was forced to kneel for hours at a time. In fact, he was never allowed off of his knees. One day, Gunnert’s VC captors took him to an interrogation room he had not seen before. This time the beating he suffered was especially severe. He crumpled to the floor in a broken, bloody heap. He lay there in excruciating pain, too exhausted and too battered to lift his face from the dirt floor. Opening his eyes, Col Gunnert saw something on the wall, about four inches from the floor, right in front of his face. As his eyes focused, he saw that someone had scrawled in dirt and mud, “Keep the faith, baby!” Laird Gunnert knew then that he was not alone. Someone else knew that he did not have to succumb to the hopelessness of his situation. He could and would, with the encouragement of…
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