John

March 17, 2024

March 17, 1944 – Dad’s first medal of valor caused Mount Vesuvius to blow her top

Well, not really. But the two events occurred in close proximity to each other. Phil’s first medal of valor was the Silver Star the Army’s third […]
March 16, 2024

March 16, 1944 – Baptism by fire (Part 2)

“No soldier in any of our theaters of operations is better acquainted with this war than is the Infantryman, and no Infantryman knows war more intimately […]
March 15, 2024

March 15, 1944 – Baptism by fire (Part 1)

“In every battle, the last one hundred yards of the fight belongs to the Infantry. Armed with rifle and bayonet, Infantrymen must face and defeat the […]
March 14, 2024

March 14, 1944 – Skirmishes increase on the Anzio front line

The countless stone houses of standard design lined the few roads across the Anzio beachhead. To the front of Dad’s units the stone farm houses were […]
March 13, 2024

March 13, 1944 – Stories of Army nurses in WWII that will swell your heart

While writing the early drafts of my book, At First Light: A True World War II Story of a Hero, His Bravery, and an Amazing Horse, […]
March 13, 2024

Largest COVID vaccine study yet finds up to 3 times greater risk? True or false?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2024/02/19/covid-vaccines-linked-to-small-increase-in-heart-and-brain-disorders-study-finds-but-risk-from-infection-is-far-higher/?sh=6a31bf5c60ffA dear friend was deeply alarmed by this recent news headline, “Largest Covid vaccine study yet finds up to 3 times greater risk.” He wrote, “I […]
March 12, 2024

March 12, 1944 – Dad’s admiration for the amazing Army nurses

While still an inpatient at the field hospital on the Anzio beachhead, Dad wrote home and expressed great admiration for the nurses there.
March 11, 2024

March 11, 1944 – Hospitalized on Anzio with malaria

After dinner that evening at the field hospital on the Anzio beachhead, Second Lieutenant Phil Larimore, who had been hospitalized with malaria, felt well enough to […]
November 13, 2019

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants

This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, the Holy One: “I am the Lord your God, who directs you in the way you should go. … […]
November 15, 2019

They will treat you this way because of my name

If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
November 16, 2019

He was despised and rejected by mankind

He was … a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him […]
November 18, 2019

Then all the disciples deserted him and fled

Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. … This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. […]
November 19, 2019

I was given a thorn in my flesh … to torment me

Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? … I am poured out like water, and all my bones […]
November 19, 2019

I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint. My soul is in deep anguish. How long, Lord, how long? … Do not be far from […]