Welcome to follow him favorites. This is where John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John, we're in the second half of the war chapters, the last 10 chapters of Alma, and I know you have a great story because I've heard you tell it before.

This is where Captain Moroni has written a not so kind letter, we'll call it that, a not so kind letter to Pahoran accusing him of sitting on his throne

while all these men are out there fighting and dying.

Captain Rone ends up being a little bit off in his assumptions,

but you have a perfect story for this situation.

I have four words in my margin right next to Alma 60 verse 22 I mean you're right

Maroni saying have you forgotten the commandments of the Lord if you've forgotten the

captivity of our fathers have you forgotten how many times we've been delivered in

verse 20, verse 21, do you think the Lord will still deliver us while we sit

upon our thrones? And then in verse 22, will you sit in idleness while you are surrounded with thousands of those,

tens of thousands who do also sit in idleness, while there are thousands around about

in the borders of the land who are falling by the sword,

yay wounded and bleeding.

And Hank, I have four words in my margin,

Dad in the Pacific, and it's quite a story.

So I'll try to tell it.

Hank, you have seen, and people are familiar probably with the statue of the

Marines pushing up the flag at Eyojima during World War II.

Beautiful picture.

And the statue, if you've ever seen it at Arlington National Cemetery is moving is huge.

That was taken February 23rd 1945 and on February 21 1945, my dad just turned 19 years old, was a lookout and a gunner's mate on the U.S.S. Saratoga, which is an aircraft carrier.

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