Excerpt from 'The Leper King'

Words frustrate me. They're inadequate to say what I've seen and what I've felt. And I've seen no less than this: humanity degraded and humanity exalted. And I've felt no less than this: the healing love of God working in my own hands. I've felt it in others, too, the boys who sweated alongside me, the sailors of the U.S. Navy, who rose above and beyond their basic training, above and beyond those high school diplomas some of them just don't have, not to attack or kill, but to build, to heal, and with the muscles of their manhood and the gentle strength they must have learned from their mothers, to repair the barbaric damage done to a great people, a noble civilized people, by the monstrous totalitarianism that denies even the existence of God and wants to cut the soil out of the human race like a cancer.

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