Chapter 40
0750 Hours
June 10, 1943
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff
U.S. Army Airborne Command
Camp Mackall, North Carolina
After finishing a six-mile run with Able Company, Father Nachen received notice to attend the Monday morning meeting of the Airborne Command’s Health, Welfare, and Morale Committee. Colonel Drexler, a stickler for punctuality, chaired the weekly meeting.
Eddie Nachen had been at Camp Mackall for several months. Until today, he’d never been to one of the meetings. He didn’t want to be late and make a bad impression on the colonel.
Father Nachen hurried over to his bachelor quarters and cleaned up in record time. Twenty minutes later, as he approached the headquarters complex, he realized that the meeting wouldn’t convene for another 40 minutes.
Blessed wit
