Sin.: “It had been a fast and furious attack. At the end, amid moans of... ›
“It had been a fast and furious attack. At the end, amid moans of wounded soldiers and occasional shots, I heard the oddest thing: ’ Hail Mary, mother of Jesus, full of grace…’ Over and over. Not the panicked voice of a wounded soldier, but the stoic, almost calm voice of someone else. ‘Hail Mary, mother of Jesus, full of grace…’ I glanced up and there was Father John Maloney, holding a small cross in his hands and walking down the center of the road, administering last rites to our dying. Never seen anything like it, a priest administering last rites with bullets bouncing around his feet. Takes a hell of a lot of conviction, and faith, for a man to do that. Later, he’d be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his courage under fire.”
