Gary Beikirch, author of Blaze of Light, shares his message of love and sacrifice..
The coronavirus pandemic has made this a difficult year for millions of people around the world, including my wife and me. Yet we’ve chosen to focus on a simple but deep lesson of hope that I first learned as an Army Green Beret medic in the jungles of Vietnam, where I was severely wounded. It’s a lesson that can help everyone.
I was part of a team of Green Berets sent to the village of Dak Seang in 1969, where I served as the chief medic for some 400 Montagnard soldiers and 2,300 women and children. The Montagnards are a tribal people who lived in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam and were allied with South Vietnamese and U.S. forces against North Vietnam and the Viet Cong.