James Baxter

Psalm 91
My brother and I joined the U.S. Marine Corps right out of high school and went away to World War II. Our mother, a True Believer, wrapped us in Psalm 91 and claimed God's promises over us. He went to the Paramarine/Raiders and the 5th MarDiv and I to the OSS and the 2nd MarDiv. We both went through combat and returned home safely after the war.

In 1950, with the  outbreak of the Korean War,  we were both  recalled  to  active  duty  with  the 1st Marine Division.   Our  mother  again  wrapped us in Psalm 91, gave  each  of  us  a small New Testament, and again sent us off to war with the Lord's blessing.

As  a  12-year-old,  I  had  accepted the Lord but had never been well-disciplined  or obedient.  I wanted to play patty-cake in the sand piles of the world. At 25, when  I  went to Korea,  I  started reading the little Testament my mother had given me.

At the Inchon landing,  and  for the next two weeks of  heavy combat as a rifle-squad leader,  I  read  a  few Bible verses every day. I loved my brother Marines who suffered  and  died  alongside  me.   As the death and destruction grew more intense  - and as I stood on the brink of eternity - I did not like what I saw.

As my  outfit, Fox Company [F-2-1],  attacked  up  the streets of Seoul,  I was hit with a machine-gun bullet. I made it behind a burning police  sub-station  in the middle of the street.  My  corpsman, Chico, dressed my wounds and as  sniper bullets crashed  into the street beside us, he laid on top of me - covering me with his own body - and yelled in my ear,  "You've  had enough!" Other riflemen  nailed  the  snipers and as Chico left me  to  help other Marines lying wounded in the street, he was hit by two bullets that blew  the shin-bone out of his leg. I never saw Chico again.

Several  Marines  threw  a  wooden  door on the ground, rolled me on it and ran me down the street under heavy fire. It was a fearsome ride.

I was placed on a DUKW, given a shot of morphine,  and dreamed  a  beautiful  restful sleep to Kimpo airfield and the flight to Japan.

At  Yokosuka  Naval  Hospital  for  three  months,  I proclaimed my loyalty to Chico, my corpsman. One night, the Lord came to me.  I saw the blood running down His forehead, into His eyes, and down over His  cheeks.  I looked into His blood-filled eyes.  He  spread out His bloody hands and said,  "I did this for you."

I was willing to be loyal to Chico -  but, had not been willing to be loyal to the Lord.  The Lord said,  "Come and follow me. I will make you a man. Put away childish things." I knew what he meant. I said, "Yes Sir."

With  the Lord as  the Lord of my life,  I re-joined my outfit and went back into front-line combat for another five months before returning home.

My brother came home with frost-bitten feet and I came home with a tender rear-end. Our mother cried with joy unspeakable.  We were both baptized and have been His loyal Marines ever since. Everyday we say, "Yes Sir," to  the  Lord Jesus  -  our CHAMPION and HERO. My Lord and my God.

I still pray for and bless Chico Carsonaro.

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Winston Churchill once said, "Courage is the most important virtue because it makes all other virtues possible." As a senior in high school ready to join the Marine Corps, I thought his statement was good. The sequence sounded right.

As a 26-year old veteran of front-line combat in two wars, I came to understand that Churchill was not accurate. Courage is not the prime virtue. It is faithfulness/ loyalty/commitment that is the prime virtue. It is being faithful that makes all other virtues, including courage, possible. The Corps has it right: semper fidelis. Always faithful.

"Moreover, it is required of stewards, that a man be found faithful." I Cor. 4:2

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