Mark

March 9, 2024

March 9, 1944 – Letters home from the Anzio beachhead

After a long-night’s work, from dusk to first light, on the Anzio beachhead, Dad and his A&P platoon would head back to Regimental Headquarters for breakfast […]
March 8, 2024

March 8, 1944 – Trenchfoot and the smell of death at Anzio

A doom like quality surrounded the Anzio beachhead, and misfortune seemed to loom everywhere for the Dogface Soldiers. One of the most common occupational hazards was […]
March 7, 2024

March 7, 1944 – Rest Camp on Anzio

80 years ago today, my Father got the good news that he and his men were heading for a few days of R&R at at a […]
March 7, 2024

“At First Light” just released in soft cover

What a nice birthday gift I’ve just received. I’ve just learned that my WWII book, At First Light, has been released by Knox Press in soft […]
March 6, 2024

March 6, 1944 – Farm houses and foxholes at Anzio

Throughout this period there were almost nightly actions around the scattered homes that once housed Italian farm families on Mussolini’s Anzio-Nettuno model Fascist farm community. Each […]
March 6, 2024

“Vaccine News You Can Use” for Family Physicians – Winter 2024

I’ve been honored to write a quarterly column, “Vaccine News You Can Use” for the Colorado Family Physician journal for a number of years. Below is […]
March 5, 2024

March 5, 1944 – The grim and deadly struggle for life on the beachhead of Anzio

From the beginning of March, the forward positions at Anzio beachhead were stabilized and remained practically unchanged until the breakthrough in May. Conditions at Anzio resembled […]
March 4, 2024

March 4, 1944 – Letters home from Anzio

On March 4, Phil wrote two letters home about his arrive at Anzio”
August 3, 2020

So You May Forgive as I Forgive

Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
August 6, 2020

Purposes of Sex

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. … Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring […]
August 11, 2020

Children – Blessed by the Lord

Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.
August 18, 2020

Above All – 1

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
August 21, 2020

The Gospel – 2

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, […]
August 22, 2020

The Gospel – 3

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.