On A Special Stage At Christmas
Our immediate future could hardly have been more bleak.
We were less than halfway through military basic training during an unusually wet, cold, and bleak Arkansas winter.
Even worse, in three weeks most of us, including me, would be spending our first Christmas away from home, family, and friends. It was no wonder we just wanted to get Christmas over and done with as soon as possible.
As it turned out, however, it wouldn’t be that way for me and the other nineteen guys who had volunteered to sing in the Camp Chaffee chapel choir.
Captain Cuthbert, the chaplain, was … Read the rest “On A Special Stage At Christmas”