It’s always a good idea to listen, especially to that little voice in your head. From J.B. Shurk at americanthinker.com:
On Thanksgiving Day in 1944, a young American platoon sergeant named Mac St. Johns led his men on a scouting mission in the French countryside. They were looking for German soldiers known to be in the area. Heading toward a crossroads under the faint light of dawn, Mac “stood stark still” and argued with himself about what to do next. He knew that he should have his men “fan out so that they could move with the cover of the trees” in the surrounding forest. But a voice in his head told him not to do so. After some hesitation, he chose to walk his men down the road in a single column. Though they were exposed, no Germans fired. In fact, Mac and his men encountered no German resistance near the crossroads at all.
Turning around to return to camp, they quickly realized how close they had come to death. Nailed to the backs of the trees, German signs warned, “Minen!” Had they moved through the woods earlier that morning, they would have been “blown to bits.”
Weeks later in mid-December, Mac got a letter from his mother. “Can you remember where you were on Thanksgiving Day?” she asked. His mother explained that she had awakened just after midnight with a sense of terror. “I had a strong feeling that you were in great danger. When I opened my Bible, a phrase in Second Chronicles [20:17] gleamed on the page: ‘Stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord with you…’” Stand…ye…still. Mac had definitely received his mother’s Thanksgiving message.
I came across Mac’s story in this collection of inspiring Thanksgiving miracles. It spoke to me because I have had my share of similar moments in life — when a whisper stopped me in my tracks and moved me in a different direction. In each of those instances, the choice before me seemed small, but the voice inside my head insisted that it would be consequential. That voice has always been right. So it is in this world: sometimes a single step is our undoing, and sometimes a single step is our salvation. When you hear an unexpected whisper, it’s best to listen.
What would Ronald C. Speirs do?
Win one for the Gippah that’s what and it is a real person RCS, 506th parachute infantry of the 101st!
My favorite unit. (H/T-Pappy)
Reading one about the CPUSA (D) figuring out it’s the border stupid and it says this is not good news. LOL!
We don’t want the comrades to listen and learn, they belong out in the left field weeds of irrelevance.
Not even elected to dog catcher for years unless it’s AOC who would have it all burned down in four months.
Build up that donor warchest cute Pixie.
(maniacal laughter)
Breaking from Boards Of Canada:
Dayvan Cowboy