LOVE WALKS WITH YOU IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH
How often it has been the case where an emergency has revealed the deepest heart convictions? Three American divisions had pressed the defending Nazi paratroopers to the tip of the Crozon penninsula in southern France. In the desperate final hours of the battle men on both sides were wounded. One young warrior from the 8th Division was brought to the first-aid station with a shattered leg. The corpsmen did what they could to stop the bleeding and then looked for someone to carry him back to the waiting ambulances. Four volunteers lifted the litter to their shoulders and began the trek away from the front lines. The wounded man was obviously in pain and as he rolled his head to the side he noticed a cross on the collar of one of the stretcher-bearers. He asked, “Are you a chaplain?” “Yes, I am, can I do something for you?” “Do you know…
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