Emphasis Preaching Journal

Lieutenant Fisher was in his final month of duty in Vietnam when it happened. Helicopter gunships and heavy artillery had leveled a village. He and his men were to scout through the village for survivors. In the very first smoldering remains of a hut, he sighted the bodies of a young woman and her baby. Unfortunately, he had witnessed many such bodies in his tour of duty. He had forced himself to cope by distancing himself from the people and from his own feelings of sadness and frustration with the war.