One of that vanishing breed, the 16,000,000 Anericans who served in World War II, the present author is a retired secondary school teacher. Born in Minneapolis, he worked as a seasonal US Park Service ranger for five years before starting to teach. The current work is the result of many years labor, first in collating the four gospel accounts into a single narrative, then in imagining the reaction of a Roman officer to his brief encounter with Jeshua. In the years following that encounter, he must have ruminated deeply on its meaning.
Married, with no offspring, the author hopes that the r...