By R.V. Burgin

R.V. Burgin from the tiny town of Jewett, Texas, became a Marine during World War II. He was first shipped to Australia to prepare for battle. While in Australia, he meets a young woman, Florence, and they fall in love.

About that time, he is shipped north to fight the Japanese in the islands of the Pacific. Burgin and his fellow soldiers would wage fierce warfare with the Japanese, losing many of their friends and fellow soldiers. They would fight on several islands, including New Britain, Peleliu and Okinawa.

Burgin and men like this are why we came through World War II victoriously and as a free nation.

After the war, Burgin returned to Texas. Shortly thereafter, his fiancée Florence met him in Texas where they married and raised four girls. The youngest of these girls, Terrie, is in our church and gave me her dad’s superb book.