D-Day’s Importance Highlighted by KU Historian
Kansas University history professor Ted Wilson interprets D-Day as a pivotal but not decisive event in World War II. The invasion opened the Western Front, involved vast Allied forces, and influenced perceptions of U.S. rise as a world power amid broader war turning points.
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Word of Life founder Jack Wyrtzen to speak in Lawrence
Jack Wyrtzen founder of Word of Life Fellowship will speak at Christ Community Evangelical Free Church Lawrence at 9 30 and 10 40 a m today. The international ministry operates 17 Bible institutions and sponsors camps in New York and Florida. Beau Abernathy pastor of the church hails Wyrtzen as a catalytic man of God who changed his life through the ministry.
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