Stories tagged with: vietnam war

• Veterans befriend pastor after losing his father

  by Jim Burton, posted Thursday, July 02, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  When Tommy Kelly was 23, his life was turned upside down when his father died from a heart attack.

  A faithful Christian, his father had been a deacon and church treasurer and was the local magistrate. Kelly got a kick from hearing local lawyers, who had far more education than his father, refer to him as “judge.”

  And Thomas H. Kelly Sr. was patriotic, having served in the Army right after the Korean War. Read More

• Vietnam veterans to receive Southern Baptists' thanks

  by Tobin Perry, posted Thursday, June 11, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- “Thank you, Captain Stringham, for bringing my son home from Vietnam.”

  A 95-year-old man spoke the words of gratitude to Glenn Stringham amid Hurricane Katrina deployment by Stringham and other Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers in 2005.

  “That’s nice of you to say that to me,” Stringham told the father of one of the men under his command three decades earlier. “But that’s not how it works. I was a commander. It was your son, one of my soldiers, who kept me alive during Vietnam.” Read More