When I started out 45 yrs ago there was no light at the end of the tunnel only despair at watching the world destroy itself and I had no one to relate it to...after 5 decades there is light at the end of the tunnel and the tunnel is disappearing

Tell me George did you perchance have some extraordinary experience of a spiritual sort that preceded your path seeking Truth?

I've had premonitions my whole life but I was shot and killed 25 yrs ago went into cardiac arrest. This was on good Friday at 10 in the morning my right leg was blown off halfway down the femur I only had a small piece of muscle holding my leg on and shot clean thru the left leg..I bled out before I reached the hospital
.they gave me 70 pints of blood and 10000 units of iv solution but my organs were shutting down and told my family I wouldn't last thru the night..they put me on a pacemaker and ventilator for my families sake so I wouldn't die on Easter.
.they were going to pull the plug on monday but I came back on Easter angry I was back..they had to put me back out because of the pain.
I wasn't supposed to live they were going to amputate my legs for 7 months and I wouldn't let them..I they said I would never walk again I spent a year in a hospital bed paralyzed....God had other plans and I walk work and do everything I used to..6 months later I got a bill from the orthopedic

God needed you to survive to give others hope that all this pain in this life will truly be gone when we cross over into his realm!
I appreciate your service & sacrifices , I salute you, from one vet to another.
Merry Christmas