On Remembering Faithful Soldiers

[443 words] Bradford Freeman was just 18 years old when he dropped out of Mississippi State and enlisted in the U.S. Army to become a paratrooper. He was assigned to be a mortarman in Company E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. The company name rings a bell from the work of author Stephen Ambrose in his bestseller work, and later miniseries, Band of Brothers. The story of Freeman’s unit, Easy Company, has become well-known not only for being paratroopers in the Normandy invasion, Operation Market-Garden, but also for their service in the Battle of the Bulge. Freeman passed away this past weekend. It is notable as his marks the passing of the last of the original members of Easy Company. The Christian life is described as warfare and all of us soldiers (2 Tim. 2:3-4). The Christian life involves weapons and hardship (2 Corinthians 10:3-6). The Christian life…