GOD AND WILLING HEARTS

BOTH STORIES ARE TRUE, AND EACH SHOWS THAT OUR CREATOR GOD, IS ABLE TO DO WITHIN A WILLING HEART.


 STORY 1.

       Many years ago, Al Capone virtually ran Chicago, no he was not famous for anything good nor heroic. He was however infamous for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegging booze and prostitution, gambling to murder.

     Al's lawyer nicknamed "Fast Eddy," because he was good and in fact kept via his skills at legal maneuvering, kept Big All out of jail for a long time.

    To show his appreciation, Capone paid him very well. Not only in money, but Fast Eddie got special dividends, for instance, he and his family occupied a fenced-in mansion with live in help and all of the conveniences of the day. This estate was so large that it took up an entire Chicago City block.
 
     Yes, Eddie live the high life of the Chicago mob and gave little consideration to the atrocity that when on around him. He had one soft spot however, and that was his son, and he saw to it this boy lacked of nothing, in clothing, in schooling, price was no object.

     However, despite of his involvement with organized crime, Eddie even tried to teach him right from wrong. Clearly, Eddie wanted his son to be better than he.

    Yet, with all his efforts and his wealth, there were two things he could not. . .not give to his son. He couldn't pass on a good name, nor a good example.

    One day, "Easy Eddie" reached a difficult decision, he would try to rectify the wrongs he had done, by telling all he knew about Al "Scarface" Capone, clean up his name and offer his son some semblance of integrity. To do this, he would agree to testify against the mob, and he knew that the cost would be great, but he did testify.

   Within a year, Easy Eddie's life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a lonely Chicago Street., but in his eyes he had given his son the greatest gift he had to offer, as the greatest price he could ever pay.From his pockets the police removed a rosary, a crucifix, a religious medallion, and a poem clipped from a magazine,
       The Poem Read:
    "The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live. love toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still."

STORY NUMBER TWO.

    World War 2 produced many heroes. One such man was Lt. Commander Butch O' Hare. A fighter pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier , The Lexington, in the South Pacific.

    One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was airborne, looking at his fuel gauge and realizing that someone had forgotten to fill his tanks. His flight leader told him to return to the ship. On this part of his flight, he saw something, that made his blood cold; a squadron of Japanese aircraft, heading towards his fleet.

    The American fighter craft,, all gone on a sortie, leaving the fleet all but defenseless. Not being able to reach his squadron, nor could they return in time, to help with this danger. There was in his mind but one thing to do, somehow he must divert them from the fleet.

    Laying aside all thoughts of personal safety, he dove into the formation of Japanese planes. The wing-mounted 50 calibers blazed as he charged in, attacking one surprised enemy plane and then another. Butch wove in and out of the now broken formation and fired at as many planes as possible until all his ammunition was spent.

   Undaunted, he continued the assault. He dove at the planes, trying to clip a wing or a tail in hopes of damaging as many enemy planes as possible, rendering it unfit to fly..

   Finally, the exasperated Japanese squadron took of into another direction.  Deeply relieved, Butch O 'Hare and his tattered fighter limped back to the carrier.

    Upon arrival, he reported in and related the event surrounding his return. The film from the gun -mounted camera on his plane told the story, it showed the extent of Butch's daring attempt to protect the fleet. He had, in fact destroyed five enemy aircraft. That February 20th day of 1942, and so for this action Butch became the Navy's first Ace of WW2 and the First, Naval Aviator to win the Medal of Honer.

    A year latter Butch was killed in aerial combat at the age of 29. His home town would not allow the memory of this W.W.2 hero to fade away. Today the O 'Hare International Airport is named in tribute to the courage of this great man. So, if you ever get to this airport give some thought to see his Memorial and his medal of Honor located between Terminals ONE and TWO!

SO WHAT. . . DO THESE TWO STORIES HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER?

BUTCH O' HARE WAS "EASY EDDIE'S". . . SON!

See I told from the beginning God is able, able to change all willing hearts, but HE will not ever use force, only LOVE and TRUTH, the Apposser uses every thing else including kill, steal and lies. 

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