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Crossroads with Jenny Bushkell - "We Are All Jews": The Untold Heroism of POW Roddie Edmonds - Part 1
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A weathered diary,…a chance discovery…and God opened a way.
Jenny's guest Pastor Chris Edmonds, author of No Surrender: The Untold Heroism of Roddie Edmonds. In 2013 Chris learned of his father's extraordinary heroism from a former POW.
He shares the remarkable story of how his father's courage, faith and unwavering conviction saved more than 200 Jewish American soldiers at the risk of his own life, while a POW in Nazi Germany. When the German Commander ordered him to identify the Jewish soldiers, Master Sgt, Roddie Edmonds stood firm and replied, "We are all Jews." One ordinary life, faithfully following Christ becomes extraordinary and impacts generations today.
His dad was posthumously awarded The Medal of Honor, our nation's highest military honor in the United States. He was the first American soldier recognized by Yad Vashem in Israel as a Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jewish American servicemen at Stalag IXA. He never spoke about what happened, taking the story to his grave in 1985.
Today, Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds is honored on the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial at World's Fair Park in Knoxville. Learn more about his life and the book at roddieedmonds.com.
"Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends." John 15:13.