Thoughts and stories, by Pal

This is one of the most choice stories I have read recently!  I hope you enjoy it.   Courage To Stand Up To Friends By Daris Howard  · July 10, 2018 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE When I stood up to my friends, defending a new girl at my school, the janitor, Mr. Bandon, saw the whole thing. He told me that it can take more courage to stand up to friends than to enemies. That was when he showed me a picture in his office of men from his World War II battalion and shared the story of Private Johnson, the man he said he admired most. Their battalion had fought across Europe, incurring heavy losses in the Battle Of The Bulge. As the Germans ran out of supplies and started to retreat, the Americans set up a base camp. The supply trucks hadn’t yet come, and what food they had was moldy and stale. They threw away the worst and ate what they could. Most of the local Germans were starving, having what little food they owned taken from them