Show As we forgive by Charles Lea Workman opened the corral gate and drove his milk cows out to the of he said to He stood them as they ate the tall Again he of the most beautiful purebred a man ever been twenty-four if that and there would have pusher would have been careful in showing off his new Workman's face clouded as he recalled the night he was driving his cows up the and speeding along the He ran into and killed the new cow had just paid Those hasty words that were exchanged because of the the ripped smashed and twisted had placed a barrier between the two men that was almost like a stone Until this time their families were almost as Children played boys an J girls sang and until Don Riley was called into the he and Workman were always As dance directors they were always dancing and going places As Les stood leaning on the fence his gaze shifted to the mountain He saw the and wild buck brush leaves had changed from greeh to and some pink and some He remembered hearing tell her mother one would soon be sailing After some moments of meditation he turned and walked back to his He climbed on and started for the south 20 to finish the fall With case in one hand and door knob in the James Riley paused while his wife Dear Mom and I'm leaving to sail across the You won't be healing from me for a Love Don Don't Riley hurried down the climbed into his repair and paint job and drove to his Everybody's their troubles were brought to All day people came and Now it was time to close He had just placed last of his instruments in the when his nurse came young lady to see she could be calling at this late His nurse James Riley stood staring at his nurse so strangely that she began looking at herself to sc if her petticoat was hanging or if her stockings were she I tell her to come her to stay in the waiting I'll sec her in a Riley sat wonder what that old pig-head is up to now sending his daughter down here to see I suppose the reason are so pigheaded is because they raise too many or is it that they become bull-headed from handling so much maybe the girl is ill or wants cold I'll He opened the walked in and there met two blue eyes that looked from beneath a head of beautiful blonde He could see in a moment that she was not but just the same he may I do for me what you know about Kathlene said you got a letter this said we probably won't hear from him for a thanked the doctor and long days that followed grew into The weeks grew into a then received a letter and at the end of the letter Don season is open every The enemy is just over the hill and we go hunting every When I get back home I'm going to continue my study of I'd like to be a had just finished reading the letter when her father came A letter from Les looked Then read the letter to her he fine Then Les thought to have a pill-pusher for a He sat down to the picked up the of and began to How long he had been reading he did not know when he heard a voice as though it were He looked up and door was partly This lie among all the things I need two arc most Take care of and bring Don safely home and help father to and Riley to understand We all need thy Les Workman found himself wishing he could climb over the barrier that stood between If he could get even a call from the man on the other he believed he would start climbing While far away Don with a small battalion of waited in their fox holes for the coming of the enemy ammunition Thy had not long to wait for soon it came puffing up the track At the right spot the time bomb blew the engine off the Railroad cars were scattered in all The enemy came from It seemed Bombs hand grenades and bullets scattered men in all Some Don saw the enemy moving in He saw one of his machine guns was He then told his buddy he was going to try and make it to that machine gun and for him to keep watch for He ran to the first big then to a big stooping low he ran leaped into the hole where the machine stood He grabbed onto the weapon and squeezed the Again and again he saw men fall and run back The battle Then he saw the enemy tanks There were lots of It looked as though there was little hope He said a short forgive them and forgive fr Then from out of the sky came a Don saw U. 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Air Corps bombs were blowing tanks to Soon the fight was He felt sicH- It grew and he fell back into the He felt strong hands carrying He knew very little except those hands were friendly Then one night the singing wires brought to Riley's door this Don Riley wounded James Riley sat looking at the telegram wishing that he could be near to after his He had looked after him now for the past 20 The heartaches that come to man wherein his loved ones are concerned sometimes make one wish that he had lived He know that people looked upon a doctor as a machine that should never tire or stop and tonight he felt his own mcchan- leal Mechanically he picked up a book that lay on the He looked at the cover and of As he laid the book it seemed to have fallen and there on page at the beginning of the last paragraph was Don's This he Savior has warned us to be careful how we forgiving each other seven times seventy in a single if we and our sins one to Can we- be more merciful and forgiving than our Heavenly We The very words seemed to portray Don's must go and see lie paid as he left to make his call at the See We page AS WE from page Time went though both men had good intentions neither found time to seek or ask each other's sugar and other were Time passed then one day a big plane flew over enemy territory and it dropped a fire draggon that shook most of the Such destruction never before had been Then in few days came With it came the hopes of soon seeing loved Don continued to get well got a letter from Don saying that he would probably be home shortly after On the eve of Christmas the whole town was crowded into the church to hear the Christmas Lights People talked and Now the program There were and best of Harold Workman and Sheron Riley sang On Good Will Toward Then something Out on the stage walked a tall young man in There he stood by the for a future bowed her head and thanks for sending two of the best Christmas presents I could have Don and forgiveness of those very dear to Then she heard a Everyone was for People cried and She felt herself being dragged to the Someone was helping her into her looked up and he One arm went around her and the other was around his mother as they walked out the She heard two men talking behind This they were shall be forgiven as we big Christmas tree in all the splendor that bright lights could He removed his cap and one lock of dark hair fell dangling over his left It was then that knew it was the one- she had been waiting Someone announced that Don Riley had just come home and he would be the concluding number on the saw two men get up and walk It was Dad and Dr Outside their gaze Their handshake meant what each man wanted to what was in his own glad to he's Les managed to said and two men brushed the new falling snow flakes from their shoulders and went They were just in time to hear Don lands have had brave other countries have done great deeds but America is our land the stars and our May peace be Beyond this life of joy and tears for those do not forgive and believe ns looms only the terror of the but for us we look |