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 | | Picking it up in my dirty, bloody, hands I could scarcely believe it when providentially it opened at Proverbs 3:5-6 and there were my mother's words, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths." |
 | | He was quickly promoted to platoon sergeant and then became one of the 15,000 men to participate in what would become one of the most significant landings of the war: the invasion of Guadalcanal located in the Solomon Islands. |
 | | Paige's platoon was given orders to establish a defensive position on a ridge near the Matanikau River, only a few miles west of Henderson Field. |
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