Stories tagged with: veterans day

• VETERANS DAY: A Navy wife

  by Jeff Iorg, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

  Seminary president Jeff Iorg, on Veterans Day, pays tribute to wives who empower their husbands for service. "They are the unsung heroes, serving the mission and sacrificing in a thousand quiet ways," he writes. Read More

• VETERANS DAY: Iwo Jima: young Marine's faith endured

  by Neisha Roberts/The Alabama Baptist, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Neisha Roberts

  BLOUNT SPRINGS, Ala. (BP) -- Horace Lee was 12 when he "gave my heart to the Lord" at a Baptist church in Alabama; 17 when he entered the Marine Corps in 1940; and 21 when he was wounded in Iwo Jima as the U.S. wrested the strategic island from the Japanese.

  "God taught me a great deal" in the military, Lee, now 91, said. "The Marine Corps complemented God's work by their fellowship … because it's teamwork and fellowship, and if you don't have that then you cannot depend on that fellow behind you.... Read More

• VETERANS DAY: Meditation at a flagpole

  by David E. Crosby, posted Tuesday, November 11, 2014 (9 years ago)

  "The children, the children," New Orleans pastor David Crosby recounts from an uncle's World War II memories -- an uncle who later became a children's home administrator. "I wonder if maybe he found his calling and his life's work on the battlefield," Crosby writes. Read More

• Iraq war vet to plant church in Washington state

  by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Kaitlyn Bernauer/NAMB

  YAKIMA, Wash. (BP) -- Michael Johnson learned a million little things in the U.S. Army. He learned to make his bed Army-style. He learned to march in the Army band. He learned to shoot an M-16 rifle and throw a grenade. Read More