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 […]
November 1, 2019

God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all

For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. … We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only […]
November 1, 2019

God is my salvation

The Lord, the Lord himself, has become my salvation. … You are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their […]
November 2, 2019

If you love me keep my commands

Be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. Walk in obedience […]
November 7, 2019

The Father himself loves you because you have loved me

Put (your) hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. … May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who is the […]
November 12, 2019

Lord the one you love is sick

He was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. He remembered that they were but flesh. … A bruised reed he will not […]
November 13, 2019

He sent out his word and healed them

If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep […]