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• 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