The Link, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 2 Two engines were dead and the ship was wobbling badly and losing height rapidly. Therefore he ordered his ten shipmates to bail out. Then at the last minute he decided to try to bring the ship in, although he would not allow his crew to take the risks involved in that gamble. He finally landed the ship safely and when he crawled out he was interviewed by an Intelligence officer who asked him how in the world he had made it down out of the sky with his ship so badly damaged. This is what he said: "The Man Upstairs brought me down. I talked to Him plenty - and He must have heard me. You see, the chips were down!" Started a One-Man Ambush Recently there came over the wires one of the most dramatic stories of a praying soldier that we have heard in this war. It concerns Hugh Barr Miller, that diminutive little star quarterback of Alabama´s championship football team of 1930 and ´31. We shall never forget how he piloted that team to a 24 to 0 victory over Washington State in the Rose Bowl. He is one of football´s all-time stars. Well, Miller recently was awarded the Navy Cross for one of the most courageous and unusual exploits in the war annals. He was shipwrecked, and for thirty-nine days, wounded and starving, he hid in the jungles of Kolombanggara. When he got better he started a one-man ambush of Japanese patrols and killed fifteen of the enemy with hand grenades. But the thing which makes his story fascinating to me is not the fact that he received the highest award the Navy offers its heroes, but what I happened the first night on that island. That night he thought he wouldn´t live and ordered the men with him to leave him behind and make their way to safety without him. He even gave his shoes to one of his men, and then laid down to die - as he fully expected to do, for he had been internally wounded by the concussion of an under-water shell and was bleeding at the mouth. However, that night he heard Japs all around him and decided that he might be worth something if he lived. This is the way he put it: "So I held a little conversation with the Lord, lying there on the edge of the jungle that evening, and I told Him that if He´d give me a little water, I´d get up out of there and do something about this situation. Then I went to sleep." Then he tells how, at nine o´clock, it started to rain and before that storm was through he had his canteen, several bottles and a can full of water - plus a heart full of new strength, courage and hope. From then on he started that 39-day, one-man campaign against the Japs which finally ended in his rescue. My guess is that Hugh Barr Miller was not much of a praying boy in civilian life, but when the chips were down he, like all other men, turned to God. "I held a little conversation with the Lord," he said. Welcomed by Christian Natives Not long ago seven naval airmen were forced down in the Pacific and paddled their rubber raft for two and a half days until they finally reached a little coral island. Much to their surprise they were welcomed at the beach by a procession of natives, who solemnly handed the airmen a Bible. By that token the airmen knew they were safe. And they were, for during the next three months those friendly Christian natives, who had been converted by missionaries, kept the Americans hidden from the Japanese patrols. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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