Youth At War

And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”  1 Samuel 17:33

Today a mere 40 years ago was that day for the youth of my unit to go to war. And we knew that it was a shootin' war by now from the evidence we heard all the previous day and night. However, to our relief, mostly, the war had moved off to other parts of the islands by the time we landed on Grenada. Why mostly? In our youth and with all those months of training, we wanted to get into the fighting, much like David did in our verse today.

Saul would spare David in the unequal contest with this battle-tested giant of the Philistines, but David and the Lord convinced the king that this thing could work. The rest of that tale is well-known to us. As for those young Marines of that time forty years ago, we got to come home... in a roundabout way, to a much cooler place, but that tale is too long for this writing today. David went on to be king of Israel. To my knowledge none of our Marine unit has been crowned king of the United States yet, but ya never know!

To God be the glory!

Bucky