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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • Ten-Minute Christians
Since leaving California, this batch of troopers watched deserts turn to mountains, and mountains turn to dense Arctic forests, and then the wild would turn back to civilization somewhere shy of Denver. Nearly every soldier was seeing these American treasures for the first time, having never been more than 20 miles from home before the war.
Many were also seeing them for the last time.