PRAYER
It was 1945. The U. S. Army’s 35th Infantry Division, 137th Infantry, Company I, of which 24- year-old Spencer January was a member, along with several other companies of American troops, was pushing through the Rhineland region of West Germany toward the Elbe River to meet the Russian troops. On March 9 the American troops were scheduled to move into Ossenburg, Germany, where a factory that had once manufactured soap was now producing gun powder and other war products. But when the time came to move out, such confusion and disorder arose that the unit couldn’t seem to get going. As a result, upper command sent another company on ahead of Company I. Later that morning, as Spencer and his comrades were cautiously making their way through a wooded area, word came that the company ahead of them had been hard hit by the enemy and that Company I was to replace it. When his company arrived at the scene, Spencer was appalled…
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