Prayer of a Soldier in France – The New American

Today is the annual commemoration by Christians of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ more than 2,000 years ago. It is a somber holiday known by the seemingly ironic name “Good Friday” — the unfamiliar even call the label sadistic. Yet according to the Christian creed, the day is “good” because mankind’s redemption was born out of the horror of what their Savior endured for them that day. This was the firm belief of a young U.S. soldier who fell by sniper’s bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. By Rebecca Terrell