John

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 […]
October 18, 2019

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. … The world cannot accept him, because […]
October 19, 2019

The world languishes and withers

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason […]
October 20, 2019

Behind the curtain

The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. … The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
October 21, 2019

I redeemed you from the land of slavery

It was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and […]
October 25, 2019

My Father’s house has many rooms

If that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and […]
October 29, 2019

I will spread out my hands in prayer to the Lord

The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.