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A bit long, but well worth your time,--as we are approaching Memorial Day, from my "American Patriots Bible" we have this : "Proverbs 3:5---TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING; IN ALL WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE WILL DIRECT YOUR PATHS"
The following is a great memory of a past hero
From overcoming the misery of long years of economic depression in the 1930's, to defeating Nazism and Japanese imperialism, to the Herculean task of remaking the post war America society, this generation of American born for "a rendezvous with destiny" was undoubtedly the most influential of the 20th century. But what was it that made them a generation of patriots, heroes, and builders?
Perhaps the answer was expressed through one of their own, Mitchell Paige, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nations most prestigious military honor, for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. On Oct. 26, 1942, after all the other Marines in his platoon were killed or wounded, for hours Paige operated 4 machine guns, single-handedly stopping an entire Japanese regiment. Had that position fallen and the Japanese regained the airfield the Marines had taken, it is possible that the outcome of WWII may have significantly changed.
In the years to come, Paige was repeatedly ask why he would be willing to put his life on the line for his country.. He said that the answers took him back to a Pennsylvania 3 room school where the children were so steeped in the traditions of America that they literally felt themselves a part of a glorious heritage---where the teacher opened the school day with a Bible verse and the Pledge of Allegiance.and where the memorized all the great documents that established the bedrock of America, such as the Gettysburg Address.
His response went this way: "My undying love of country and my strong loyalty to the Marines fighting by my side, gave me no choice but to fight on unswervingly throughout my battles, using my God-given ability to make use of what I had been taught and learned"
WHEN PAIGE LEFT HOME TO WALK the 200 miles to the nearest Marine recruiting station in 1936, his mother packed him a lunch in which she included the note: "Trust in the Lord, son, and He will guide you always." He said this words remained forever in his mind, and whenever fear would overtake him, he was comforted by them.
Paige said, "I will never forget sitting in a foxhole, bloody, burned, and injured the morning after our all night, fierce, hand to hand battle against an overwhelming Japanese force on Guadalcanal. I was alone except for hundreds of dead bodies of the enemy surrounding me. I emptied my pack looking for something to stop the bleeding from a bayonet wound and out fell my small Bible. Picking it up in my dirty, bloody hands, I could scarcely believe it when providentially it opened at Proverbs 3 and there were my mother's words, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths."
Michell Paige was a true servant and patriot of America.....and America is proud to have had hundred of thousands of valiant soldiers cut from the same cloth