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Please Pray for a Fading Soldier
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Posted on 09/11/2004 8:20:23 PM PDT by Ol' Sox

My step-dad, Wendall, is dying in the hospital tonight. He has lived a good long life, has suffered much over the last two years and is ready to move on. He's had the opportunity to tell each of us in the family good-bye, knows Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, and is as well prepared to pass on as any man I've ever met.

Wendall was a Sergeant in the 296th Combat Engineer Battalion, VII US Corps during WWII. He landed at Normandy on D+2 and wound up at Bad Berka, Germany at the end of the war. He had never spoken of his service until one day about three years ago. While watching a football game together, he suddenly began to talk, and three hours later, had recounted his World War II experience. I got an atlas out and took notes.

He saw combat and built bridges. Carentan, Sedan, Bouillon, Florenville, Verviers, Monschau, Bad Berka, Buchenwald, Berlin. He was stationed close to Malmedy and remembered the dread he felt when he learned about the massacre during the Battle of the Bulge. He entered the Buchenwald concentration camp the day after it was liberated. His unit helped to take the residents of Bad Berka to Buchenwald. Under orders, they turned this area over to the Russians and moved on to Berlin, where I've heard that they entered the city three days before any other American unit.

Tonight, I ask for your prayers for this good man, who served his country with honor, his family with steadfastness and love, and God with a humble and generous spirit.


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To: Fracas

I'm sorry for your loss.


41 posted on 09/11/2004 8:44:57 PM PDT by freemama
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To: Ol' Sox

May Gods love be with you in you and your families time of need. May the angels protect all of you and bring him home safely to God.

Amen.


42 posted on 09/11/2004 8:45:06 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: Ol' Sox; Eaker; Flyer; TexasCowboy; Brad's Gramma; LadyX
I shall pray for Wendall in a few minutes. My Grandfather was in Third Army after it was formed but hit Normandy about D+2 also. May God Bless you and yours.

Windell
U.S.Army
3/71 - 12/73

43 posted on 09/11/2004 8:46:22 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (Blogosphere ... the 21st Century Revolution)
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To: Ol' Sox

Praying now.


44 posted on 09/11/2004 8:46:31 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Ol' Sox

He's part of the rock solid foundation our nation was built on. God Bless him. Thanks for sharing his story with us.


45 posted on 09/11/2004 8:46:56 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Santorum 2008)
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To: Ol' Sox

Prayers for your family.


46 posted on 09/11/2004 8:47:00 PM PDT by Kewz1 (Never forget.)
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To: Ol' Sox
"Thank you, Fuzzy. I am one of those three million. :)"

Gee a "coincidence"!

I just now learned of it while watching a DVD I just received.

"George W. Bush: Faith in the White House"

WOW! What a GREAT man our President is.

Your step-father sounds like a real hero. Truly a member of a time that helped earn them the name of "The Greatest Generation"!
I'm sure you know that you're a lucky man.

My prayers are with you and your family.
Your step-father will be home soon.


Stay Strong,
Fuzzy122

47 posted on 09/11/2004 8:47:35 PM PDT by fuzzy122 (GBGB [God Bless George Bush] and the Armed Forces ... Arnold and Zell too!)
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To: dalebert

Thoughts and prayers for you.

God Bless.


48 posted on 09/11/2004 8:48:29 PM PDT by Shortstop7
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To: MrChips

Prayers to a true American hero.


49 posted on 09/11/2004 8:50:19 PM PDT by dixiechick2
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To: Ol' Sox
My mother passed away three weeks ago this weekend. She, too, passed on knowing the Lord, and with her family around her. I feel blessed to have been there during her last minutes.

You and your stepfather will be in my prayers.

50 posted on 09/11/2004 8:50:56 PM PDT by gieriscm
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To: Ol' Sox

What a lovely tribute to your step-dad.

God speed, Wendall.
Thank you for your service to our country.


51 posted on 09/11/2004 8:51:05 PM PDT by krunkygirl
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To: fuzzy122

May The Lord Bless him and keep him----may The Lord welcome him home where there will be no more war or sadness or death--

WW2 Normandy veteran


52 posted on 09/11/2004 8:51:31 PM PDT by cmotormac44
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To: Ol' Sox
May God have mercy on the soul of this man.

May his family be comforted by the knowledge that he did his duty.

May we all understand that we need men like this to preserve what he lived for.

53 posted on 09/11/2004 8:51:39 PM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor.)
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To: Ol' Sox

Oh no...I'm so sorry. I will pray that he has a peaceful journey from this life to his eternal home. I'm SO VERY happy that he knows his Savior!!!

You are SUCH a good son for asking for prayer. Please know that you're SURROUNDED with prayer, right now.


54 posted on 09/11/2004 8:52:19 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Become a monthly donor to FR!! $5 per Freeper...and you'll never be bugged again)
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To: Ol' Sox

May The Lord Bless him and keep him----may The Lord welcome him home where there will be no more war or sadness or death--

WW2 Normandy veteran


55 posted on 09/11/2004 8:52:39 PM PDT by cmotormac44
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To: Ol' Sox

Prayers for this brave man. Each of you are very fortunate to have had each other in your lives. Your love for him is evident and a great tribute to the kind of man he is.


56 posted on 09/11/2004 8:53:32 PM PDT by barker (I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home, Zell Miller on GWBush)
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To: Ol' Sox
2Ti 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:
2Ti 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

God bless you all,
Andy

57 posted on 09/11/2004 8:54:22 PM PDT by AndrewC (I am a Bertrand Russell agnostic, even an atheist.</sarcasm>)
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To: Ol' Sox

My prayers are with your step-dad, Wendall.


58 posted on 09/11/2004 8:55:33 PM PDT by newslady
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To: Ol' Sox

He is in my prayers, what a fine man.


59 posted on 09/11/2004 8:55:33 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: cmotormac44
WW2 Normandy veteran

God bless you, sir, and thank you for the gift of freedom that you have given my family.

60 posted on 09/11/2004 8:56:32 PM PDT by Ol' Sox (Issa u Akbar)
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