With God in a P.O.W. Camp

by Ralph Gaither

"The guards lowered their bayonets to allow the crowd to get closer. The women and men hammered at our shoulders and bodies with their fists, and hit us with rocks. The children kicked our legs and flayed at us with their fists as high as the could reach. The men broke into our path and spat into our faces. We marched on. Jim stumbled and I caught him. Then I stumbeld and he caught me. We repeated to each other, "Stand tall, you're an American.' As we walked through that parade, as the rocks interrupted us, as the mob beat and spit on us, we quoted the twenty-third Psalm" 'The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want..." The author, Ralph Gaither, was shot down in North Vietnam on October 17, 1965 and was released February, 1973.

152 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1973