James

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 […]
March 25, 2024

March 25, 1944 – Fate of Anzio Beachhead rests heavily on the ‘Ducks’

Probably the two outstanding features of our handling of supplies on this 5th Army beachhead have been the “duck,” or amphibious truck, and our system of […]
December 18, 2019

If I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him

Is anything too hard for the LORD? … Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this. … Trust in the […]
January 2, 2020

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction …

… pay attention and gain understanding. // Whoever heeds life-giving correction will be at home among the wise. Those who disregard discipline despise themselves, but those […]
January 2, 2020

Everyone should be quick to listen

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry // Sin is […]
January 2, 2020

The power of words for harm

The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of […]
January 7, 2020

Your Are Chosen

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance … a remnant chosen by grace … I have chosen […]
January 14, 2020

Bad Desires – 2

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, […]