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Onward Christian Soldiers — KABOOM!
Published by The Daring One
Jul 27

Yesterday in church we were sang Onward Christian Soldiers as the closing
hymn and as we finished, I leaned over to Dan and whispered, “KABOOM!”


Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing."
~Helen Keller

“What?” he looked at me in confusion.

Oh. I thought he knew. Remember at the end of the Little House on the Prairies TV series when they marched
through Walnut Grove singing that song and then they used dynamite to explode the entire town to
keep it out of the hands of the big bad developers who were forcing them out of their homes?

Yeah. Dan doesn’t remember it either. When I told him about it, he said it was probably a plot device by the
set construction guys so they wouldn’t have to dismantle the whole set once the series was over. A few
sticks of well-placed dynamite, some hymn-singing citizens, one giant detonation lever, and their work was done.

I’m a bit cynical about that and also unsure if any of it really happened. The last time I watched the show I was probably
10 or 12 and you know what happens when I recap shows I haven’t seen for years and years. Either way, that’s how I
remember it and I cannot sing or hear that song without picturing the whole town going up in an explosive inferno.

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