Retired Marine Corporal William “Kyle” Carpenter was recently presented the Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony. During a Fox and Friends interview, Carpenter was asked about a tattoo he has of a Bible verse:
“Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle. Psalms 144:1”
Carpenter explained that he and his fellow Marines Read more
Now-retired LtCol Paul Needham was captured by the Iranians during the Embassy takeover in 1979, as he recently related as a guest speaker at an event at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
For those that have seen Argo, he was one of the guys locked in the communications vault shredding papers when the building was taken.
He was lined up in a firing squad: Read more
For the second year in a row, the biography of a military Christian has made the Chief of Staff of the Air Force’s official “Reading List.” Last year, it was Unbroken, the story of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic athlete turned bombardier turned POW — a man who eventually became a Christian and returned to meet his former torturers.
This year, General Mark Welsh’s first list contains Lee Ellis’ Leading with Honor, previously reviewed here. The Air Force write up says
How did American military leaders in the brutal POW camps Read more
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Leading with Honor, Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton, is a unique and outstanding book by former prisoner of war Lee Ellis, an F-4 pilot who spent nearly six years in POW camps in Vietnam. Its stated intent is to pass on “leadership” lessons from the “crucible of captivity.” In truth, it is much more than that: It teaches lessons that are applicable to all of life.
Ellis, who was a 1st Lt at the time, was on his 53rd mission over North Vietnam Read more
The New York Times carries an article on Chaplain (Maj) David Bowlus, a former armor officer and current Chaplain with the US Army. Like many of the Soldiers he serves, Chaplain Bowlus has deployed eight times in the past 9 nears.
In those years, he has held syringes and gauze for a medic while praying the 23rd Psalm with a soldier shot during a raid in Mosul, Iraq. He has administered first aid and God’s word to the fighting men raked by rocket-propelled grenades when the Taliban ambushed their convoy. He has soothed grieving parents and overseen the loading of coffins for the long flight home.
Just like every other Soldier, though, the Chaplain experienced the cumulative effects of the weight of war. Read more