Day 2 (Saturday) Introduction to farming and a Challenge
Begin the day with reveille by Evan Duncan on the bagpipes. Aaron Chonko leads a physical training (PT) session. Men and young men break into groups to conduct farm work.
Men repair a rock wall that was built in the early 1800s.
Young men pick rock out of a field so it can be planted.
Grant shows young men and fathers his menagerie of animals and crops.
Young men load hay onto a wagon.
Teenagers go up the mountain
Young men learn land navigation with Dave.
Young men learn marksmanship with Aaron and Cory.
“Trainwreck” shares with men of Valor.
Eric “Trainwreck” Burkett lost his legs as a Marine MV-22 pilot. He now teaches archery at the world class level. He shares with the young men of VALOR part of his story. How God brought him through the after-effects of the devastating crash during Exercise African Lion in Morocco where two Marines lost their lives. During his 4 years, 1 month, and 1 day at Walter Reed, an old lady (Mary Respice) shared with him while he was feeling sorry for himself, “My cocky pilot, you need to know one thing here. You’re forgetting something. You’re forgetting that this isn’t about you (5:30). This is about God and about God’s plan. Obviously you have some work there at Walter Reed. So maybe instead of whining about things, maybe you ought to pick your spiritual kit up, put it on your back, and get to work.”
“I’ll tell you, I hated her for it. But she was right on. It was the truth.”
“What I had forgotten through all this was that when I had accepted Christ into my heart and asked forgiveness for my sins, is that I was taking another oath of enlistment. I was taking an oath of enlistment in the Army of Christ.”
