Zechariah

April 1, 2024

Monthly Family Update — April 2024

Here are the contents of this month’s newsletter: ARMY magazine carries an article about my father’s incredible WWII exploits and heroics “What the Bible Says About […]
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 […]
January 25, 2021

Show mercy and compassion to one another

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the […]
January 26, 2021

They encouraged one another

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. … Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. … Be devoted to one another […]
February 21, 2021

I delight greatly in the Lord

My soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteous-ness, as a […]
February 22, 2021

Sing, shout, be glad and rejoice with all your heart

My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts … Be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem […]
February 22, 2021

They will come and shout for joy

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, […]
February 25, 2021

Be at peace with each other

I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. … Turn from evil and do good; seek peace […]