{"id":4510,"date":"2022-05-27T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2022-05-27T07:59:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:59:34","slug":"out-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=4510","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180303_120224-e1538589123924.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3961 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180303_120224-e1538589123924-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180303_120224-e1538589123924-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180303_120224-e1538589123924-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180303_120224-e1538589123924-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:&nbsp; I almost lost you.<\/p>\n<p>Me:&nbsp; Yes, but I am here, I am with you.<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:&nbsp; Let&#8217;s share with each other.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the book Power of Love and this was written by Jack Haring<\/p>\n<p>The Battle of the Bulge.&nbsp; The final desperate attempt of the Germans to break through Allied lines in Belgium and dash to Antwerp and the sea.&nbsp; For six days our 84th Infantry Division had been diverted from the Ninth Army in the north to the beleaguered First Army area in the Ardennes forest.&nbsp; The fiercest fighting of the war, and I, a 19-year old private, was in the middle of it.<\/p>\n<p>My letter home to Pennsylvania was written on a Christmas morning that was sunny and quiet&#8211;deceptively quiet.&nbsp; &#8220;The barn I slept in last night,&#8221;&nbsp; I wrote, &#8220;made me think of the place where Jesus came into the world.&#8221;&nbsp; Then I began reminiscing to Mom about the good Christmases we&#8217;d had as I was growing up&#8211;always starting with the traditional dawn service at St. John&#8217;s Lutheran in Boyertown.&nbsp; Church had always been an important part of my life.&nbsp; I&#8217;d started college thinking I might go into the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The letter home was upbeat all the way.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t mention anything about the things that had been troubling me.&nbsp; How I had become disillusioned with organized religion because I saw so few Christians either at home or in the combat zone&#8211;certainly not Christians trying to live the way Jesus had taught.&nbsp; Or how the weather had been so miserable and the fighting so blazing that I feared I&#8217;d never live to see Pennsylvania again.<\/p>\n<p>The last straw was being sent to these snow-covered hills and woods where we might be attacked at any moment from out there, some where I was beginning to think that God has forsaken me.<\/p>\n<p>Still, even though we&#8217;d spent the last five days floundering around trying to stop the Germans, even though our supply trucks had been captured, at least we&#8217;d had a barn for shelter on Christmas Eve, and our cooks were promising us a hot meal for Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go, &#8221; Sergeant Presto, our squad leader, shouted.&nbsp; &#8220;Collect your gear and fall out.&nbsp; We&#8217;re going on a mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I groaned.&nbsp; We all groaned.&nbsp; There went our first hot meal in a week!<\/p>\n<p>We drove for about ten miles and then the trucks dropped us and sped away.&nbsp; It was dusk.&nbsp; Troops were strung out all along dirt road that circled through some hills.&nbsp; When Presto came back from a meeting with the platoon leader, he gathered the ten of us&#8211;we were one man short in the squad&#8211; around him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, men, here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to do.&nbsp; This won&#8217;t take long and we&#8217;re going to travel light.&nbsp; Leave your packs and entrenching tools here.&#8221;&nbsp; He made it sound so simple.&nbsp; Intelligence had said that some German infantry were dug into a nearby hill and were causing havoc by shooting down on the roads in the area.&nbsp; Our battalion&#8217;s job was to go up and flush them out.<\/p>\n<p>Single file on each side of the winding road, we moved up the hill.&nbsp; We moved quietly warily.&nbsp; At the top, we were surprised to find, not Germans, but an abandoned chateau in the middle of a clearing.&nbsp; Our squad went into the building.&nbsp; We found a billiard table and the tension broke as we played an imaginary game of pool using our rifles as cues.<\/p>\n<p>Then Presto came stalking in.&nbsp; The Germans, he said, were in the woods beyond the clearing.&nbsp; Our orders were to chase them out into the waiting arms of another battalion positioned at the other end of the woods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;ll be three companies in this deal,&#8221; Presto said.&nbsp; &#8220;Two of us will stretch out along the edge of the forest while the other hangs back in reserve.&nbsp; Now, as soon as we push into the woods, everybody fires, got it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We spread out, walked through the darkness to the forest&#8217;s edge, than, at a signal, we burst in, opening up with everything we had.&nbsp; We kept up a brisk pace, keeping contact with our buddies along the moving line, walking and firing for about a mile.&nbsp; But the forest was empty.&nbsp; There was no movement&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The trees in front of us exploded.&nbsp; Suddenly, the night went bright with every kind of firing I&#8217;d even seen or heard of &#8211;rifles, rifle-launched grenades, mortars, machine guns, tracers over our heads, bullets at our thighs.&nbsp; But worst of all, Tiger tanks.&nbsp; At least six of them, opening up point-black with 88-millimeter cannons.&nbsp; Their projectiles whined and crashed all up and down our line.<\/p>\n<p>Our intelligence was wrong, I thought angrily, as I flung myself down on my stomach.&nbsp; They told us there were no tanks up here.&nbsp; Now we&#8217;re really in for it.<\/p>\n<p>Within seconds men were screaming in pain all around me.&nbsp; I saw a tree with a big trunk and made a sudden lunge to get behind it, but I wasn&#8217;t quick enough.&nbsp; Something tore into my thigh.&nbsp; There was hot, searing pain.<\/p>\n<p>We were completely pinned down.&nbsp; The Tiger tanks kept scanning their turrets and firing on every yard of our line.&nbsp; The German ground troops sent their small arms fire into anything that moved.<\/p>\n<p>The minutes went by.&nbsp; Five.&nbsp; Ten.&nbsp; Fifteen.&nbsp; Then came a lull in the barrage.&nbsp; I called over to my best buddy, Kane.&nbsp; We called him &#8220;Killer.&#8221;&nbsp; He was the gentlest guy in our platoon, but we&#8217;d nicknamed him that after the popular comic strip character, &#8220;Killer Kane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you hurt, Killer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Naw.&nbsp; But I think everybody else over here is.&nbsp; Presto&#8217;s hit bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I called to Cruz on my right.&nbsp; He was our squad&#8217;s B.A.R. man.&nbsp; There was no answer.&nbsp; Then I barely heard him whispering, &#8220;I&#8217;m hurt.&nbsp; Real bad.&nbsp; Floyd&#8217;s dead.&nbsp; Corporal John&#8217;s hit bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I thought, if Presto&#8217;s out and the Corporal, too, we don&#8217;t have a leader.<\/p>\n<p>The pounding started again, this time with flares so they could spot us better.&nbsp; We did some firing back and then the action subsided into another lull.<\/p>\n<p>Down along the rear of our line came a figure crawling.&nbsp; It was our platoon runner.&nbsp; &#8220;Captain says we&#8217;re getting nowhere,&#8221; he whispered to Killer and me.&nbsp; &#8220;We&#8217;re pulling back in five minutes.&nbsp; Move out when you hear our covering fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I crawled over to Killer.&nbsp; &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to get our guys out of here,&#8221;&nbsp; I said.&nbsp; &#8220;You go up your side and I&#8217;ll go down mine, and we&#8217;ll drag as many as possible to that big tree back there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How&#8217;re we going to get them out of here, though?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; I said.&#8221;But we can&#8217;t leave them lying here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We were trapped.&nbsp; I lay there on the cold ground feeling helpless, that forsaken feeling again.&nbsp; Where was the God that I had prayed to during all those years of church and Sunday school back home in Pennsylvania?&#8221;&nbsp; And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do,&#8221;&nbsp; the Bible had said to me clearly.&nbsp; Was it necessary, when I needed help so badly to ask?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, Lord,&#8221;&nbsp; I mumbled, &#8220;help us.&nbsp; We&#8217;re trying to get our wounded buddies out of here.&nbsp; Show us the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had no sooner started dragging Corporal John toward our meeting tree when the firing started up in the center of our line.&nbsp; There&#8217;s the signal for pulling back, I thought frantically, but we can&#8217;t do it. The Germans will sweep in on us; they&#8217;ll mop us up before we can pull back.<\/p>\n<p>Just as I got to the tree, I saw that Killer had brought back three wounded squad members.&nbsp; So we had six in all to get back.&nbsp; I closed my eyes and in desperation said:&nbsp; &#8220;In Your name, Lord, help us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I opened my eyes.&nbsp; In the black of night, moving mysteriously among the shattered trees, a giant hulk came toward us.&nbsp; The Germans, my heart thumped, they&#8217;ve broke out of the brush.&nbsp; They&#8217;re bearing down on us.&nbsp; No, it was something else, something unbelievable.&nbsp; It now came into full view and stopped beside our tree.<\/p>\n<p>A horse.<\/p>\n<p>A big, docile, shaggy chestnut, standing there without a harness, as though awaiting our bidding.<\/p>\n<p>Killer and I looked at each other in disbelief.&nbsp; We didn&#8217;t question then where the horse came from, or how, or why; we just got to work.&nbsp; Moving swiftly, we draped Cruz and the Corporal on the chestnut&#8217;s broad back, then Mike and Presto.&nbsp; Then, with Killer carrying one of our buddies and me carrying the other, we led the horse out of the woods.&nbsp; At the clearing the horse trotted on ahead of us, straight to the chateau, and by the time Killer and I got there, our wounded were already on medical stretchers.&nbsp; The two men we carried in were cared for; the medics gave a quick look at my shrapnel wound; and then, as fast as we could, Killer and I went to find the horse.&nbsp; We wanted to pat him, give him some sugar, anything to make him sense our gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>But he wasn&#8217;t there.&nbsp; We looked everywhere, asked everyone we saw, but no one could tell us anything about him.&nbsp; He had simply vanished&#8211;gone from us as mysteriously as he had come.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning at the aid station the shrapnel was removed from my leg, and at noon Killer and I lined up for our belated Christmas dinner.&nbsp; The day before, 190 men in our company would have answered the chow call; today there were 35 of us.&nbsp; All the wounded men in our squad had survived, however, though some were never to see action again.<\/p>\n<p>I have always believed that Christmas night, God sent that horse to reassure a doubting soldier of His presence,even as He had sent His Son for that purpose on a Christmas night twenty centuries ago.<\/p>\n<p>Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 9:37<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n<p>www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n<p>www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prodigal:&nbsp; I almost lost you. 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