We have all heard the high pitched often crackly voice of the famous radio announcer, Paul Harvey, who said, "and now the rest of the story". Paul will finish his news broadcast usually showing the triumph of the God given human spirit over evil. In 1961-1962 my father was the division chaplain for the mighty Third Armored Division which was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany, commanded by General Abrahms. Their mission was to be one of the combat tank divisions to stop the highly numerically superior Russian hordes who were always deployed right across the border. These were very serious years for the free world.

In the coming fall, I was to start my senior year at Frankfurt American High School which was a triple-A, very large high school. We were enjoying our first summer in Europe when the scary news broadcast came over all the networks that the Russians had, without warning, sealed the border between East and West Berlin; this was the start of the building of the hated Berlin Wall, around a city bordered on all sides by East Germany.

Sixteen years later my new bride Dee and I were assigned to serve as a Chaplain couple inside the Berlin wall with the spit-and-polish Berlin Brigade. This Brigade was located 110 miles inside East Germany with many, many Russian Divisions all focused on our small but very proud Brigade; an interesting place to start a family!

About three miles through the city of Berlin, which had been the capitol of the Infamous Third Reich, was the huge Templehof Airfield where Hitler had built the air terminal in the shape of a huge Nazi eagle. About three miles farther was the huge stadium where Hitler hosted the famous 1936 Olympics, where a wonderful black man named Jesse Owens won all the gold medals for the United States.

And now the rest of the story. Dee and I have lived to see the hated Berlin Wall be torn down. We have seen Easter Sunrise services conducted at Templehof terminal in Berlin Ñ which had been constructed for evil. Billy Graham held crusades in the stadium where jack-booted, evil-bearing Nazi soldiers once marched. We even held weekly worship in a chapel constructed from the rubble of war, called McNair Chapel.

Jesus of Nazereth came into the city of Jerusalem riding on a lowly donkey where, for a very brief time, the crowds finally got it right just this once! They hailed him with shouts of "Hosanna to the highest, hail the King of the Jews." Very shortly following, they would be swayed by the religious establishment with shouts of "crucify Him, crucify Him."

But God has a mighty way of always being triumphant. Even though the crucifixion laid Him in the grave for three days, He had prophecied that the temple of his body would be rebuilt in three days! He went on to appear to over 500 witnesses before He ascended to be with His Father in heaven. AND he promised he would return again on a WHITE CHARGER. This Palm Sunday, get it right and honor Him with the rest of your story.