Doug's Blog: Mailbag From Grateful Sons

Dear Vision Forum, I watched The League of Grateful Sons last night on CBN and found it to be one of the best documentaries as well as Christian witnessing tools that has come down the pike in a long long time. I have just recently completed a magazine article of the same genre that showed how my great grandfather, my father and my father in law had all escaped certain death in the Civil War, and WW2 respectivley; and how through their later generations the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been further spread. I commend you all for such a great work. Michael W.; Bradenton, FL

Dear Mr. Phillips, A few months ago I ordered a copy of The League of Grateful Sons, intending to watch it on Memorial Day with my wife, three sons and daughter. Last night we sat down together as a family to watch the video for the first time. I spent a few minutes beforehand speaking to my sons (12, 10, and 8) about the meaning of Memorial Day and the importance of chivalry, and the duty of men to protect and defend women and children. Then we watched the video. Wow! How powerful and informative. I think all my boys “got it.” Afterward, they wanted to know all about my own service in the Navy and what Grampa (my father) did during World War II. My father died over 20 years ago, but when I was a young man he told me about some of his experiences as a B-29 navigator during the war. His bomber was the first B-29 to land on Iwo Jima after the Marines secured the airfield. He flew over 30 bombing missions over Japan. My father lost many friends in the war and he told me he returned regularly from bombing missions with various degrees of damage to his own plane from flak and other enemy action. He studied statistics after the war on the GI Bill, and at one point he calculated the odds of surviving as many missions as he did — it turned out his chances of surviving (statistically speaking) were less than 10 percent. Providence, however, was not constrained by the “mathematical odds”! Thank you again for producing this great film, and for your Patriachal vision. John L. Fredericksburg, VA