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The POWER of FAITH By WOOD! ISHMAEL%;•* — •.......•- ?• ..WMp: mte- 4lt;\\1 :«3ijs a boy, Lf. Kenneth D. Thomas set a seven year attendance record in Sunday school. Last March, when he bailed out of his crippled 105 fighter plane over North Viet Nam, he found great spiritual comfort in knowing I wasn't by myself.*’He landed on a narrow ledge of a cliff 500 feet from the top and 100 feet from the bottom. A rescue helicopter made six attempts before dark to reach him but bad weather and high winds prevented it. Ken spent the night on that ledge surrounded by the enemy. The.next morning the helicopter was back. By radio he. learned he would have to climb down the cliff and walk out to the end of a box canyon some three or four miles away as the crow flies.For Ken the walk was more like ten miles, all through mountainous enemy territory. He said, “I prayed quite often in the hills. And after many attempts with the weather still bad the helicopter squeezed into the 1 25 foot wide canyon and pulled Ken to safety. Ken Thomas had spent 25 hours on the ground in North Viet Nam. At that time it was the longest any pilot had spent in enemy territory and been pulled out. His faith in God andhis fellow men meant his survival.■----- AP Newsfeatures •
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Lock Haven Express
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Oct 15, 1966
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