Sunday Faith Blog

THIS STORY WILL BRING TEARS TO YOUR EYES.    

I had to print it here today because I feel, somehow, that it’s rather “holy.”  It’s holy in the goodness of 10 American soldiers whose plane had been hit by the enemy and who were trying to somehow make it to land,  hoping not to hit the water they were over at the time.  Spotting a field, they apparently thought they could land there, even a crash landing might keep some alive, but there were English children playing in that field.

One English boy remembers that the pilot was waving at them and the children thought they were waving ‘hello,’ as American soldiers would do, but the waving was “please get out of the way!”  Instead of chancing hitting any of the children by an uncontrolled crash landing in their playing field, the pilot chose to hit some trees and that they did, and none survived.

That English boy is now in his eighties and kept flowers on that spot as a child, then got a park dedicated to them, and now he was thrilled beyond words about the fly-over the RAF and American planes performed on February 21.

Another ‘holy’ thing, to me, is that 10,000 people came out to watch the planes, to celebrate the dead airmen.   10,000 people still care that Americans did the right thing, the blessed and holy thing, of protecting and saving children to their own peril.

OK…tears here again.  PLEASE look at the link, all the info is there, and you can watch Tony Foulds, the little boy, talk about this experience.

I print their picture so you can look into each of their dear faces and know how much they lost, what they gave up, how they have not been forgotten.  God bless them.  I am proud just to include this story on my blog……….I’m proud to be one of them, an AMERICAN.