Witzke Wood

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

"Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

O LORD my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

“Today was the kind of day of which we need more . I had the pleasure of being in attendance at a special cane presentation to 2nd Lt Harold Noel, 94 years old, a WW11 B24 Navigator, who was shot down on his 15th mission and became a POW at Stalag 3 for over a year. He was freed when Patton Drove his tanks into the Stalag.

Hank Cloutier, one of our local River Rats, and his cane carving team, did one for Harold to honor his service to our country. BG Jeff “Tuna” Johnson, CC of the 113th ANG Wing at Andrews, was honored to host and do the presentation in his Ops Group conference room. The event took place today today. In attendance, beside Tuna were Colonel Kirk “Tick” Pierce the new OG. Harold’s daughter Nancy Noel, son and daughter-in-law Bob and Nancy Noel (Yes, The daughter-in-law is also Nancy). Hank Cloutier and his other cane carver (Peter Ward), and me.

After the presentation, Harold told many stories about his POW experience. The Stalag 3 was the camp about which “The Great Escape” was filmed. He told of his capture, being held in Vienna, then Nuremberg then the march to Bavaria. His targets for the first 14 missions were the big ones, Ploesti, Wiener Neustadt and other well defended ones. On one mission the gunners of his plane did shoot down 2 German fighters.

It was an honor for all of us to be present at this ceremony. It was well worth the hour and a half to honor this genuine
American hero. Harold had no idea that it was going to be such a ceremony. His children had just told him that they wanted to take him to Andrews (AFB) for lunch. “

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.