Ephesians

March 31, 2024

March 31, 1944 — A long letter home from Anzio

By the time you get this you will have seen, or will see some time, a write up about me in the Commercial. Also they will […]

March 31, 2024

Barb and I LOVE the Good News of Resurrection Sunday

Barb and I love Easter. Not because of chocolate bunnies, Easter eggs, Easter Sunrise services, spiral hams, family traditions, or marshmallow peeps. It’s because after celebrating […]

March 30, 2024

March 30, 1944 – Deserted city where Nero fiddled while Rome burned

Anzio and Nettuno run together along the coast of our beachhead, forming practically one city. There is really only one main street, which runs along the […]

March 29, 2024

March 29, 1944 – Living in a covered foxhole for 45 consecutive days on Anzio

Through March and April, 1944, things on Anzio remained unchanged. Living in a covered foxhole for 45 consecutive days was quite an experience.[1]

March 28, 2024

March 28, 1944 – Sometimes you hear shells coming, sometimes you don’t on Anzio

When you get to Anzio you waste no time getting off the boat, for you have been feeling pretty much like a clay pigeon in a […]

March 27, 2024

‘Dogface’ Hero: Headstrong Teen Becomes Highly Decorated Young Leader (Feb 2024 — ARMY magazine)

An article, ‘Dogface’ Hero: Headstrong Teen Becomes Highly Decorated Young Leader , based upon my and Mike Yorkey’s book, At First Light: A True World War […]

March 26, 2024

March 26, 1944 – A well deserved break at a rest camp

Beginning on 26 March, every two days another company the 30th Infantry was sent to the 3rd Division Rest Center in the heart of the Pine […]

November 22, 2019

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

November 23, 2019

Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise!

Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

November 26, 2019

I have not stopped giving thanks for you

We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. We remember before our God and Father your work produced by […]

November 26, 2019

Give thanks in all circumstances

And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human […]

November 29, 2019

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins

Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. … Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to […]

November 30, 2019

Refrain from anger

Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming. … Stirring up anger produces strife.