Proof The Bible Is True

Apprehension? Excitement? My wife, Rosland, and I didn’t know what we felt more while we packed our belongings into the rented U-Haul trailer. We’d married young, even for the freewheeling 1960s— and at 18 we’d already added a new baby to our family.

I’d just completed my basic training at Fort Ord in California, which meant I could eventually expect a tour in Vietnam. Already I worried who would take care of my young family then.

For now, though, I was in charge. We were leaving Southern California for my first duty station at Fort Riley, Kansas. We hitched the trailer onto our 1958 Rambler station wagon and set off, making good time until we hit New Mexico.

“Snow!” Rosland said, marveling at the pretty white flakes falling outside. “Certainly going to be a white Christmas in these parts.” Not something we were familiar with.

Soon we seemed to be enveloped by flurries. It was getting hard to see the road as the sky darkened. I turned on the radio and scanned for a weather report.

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