Do not remember the past events, pay no attention to things of old.  Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.  Isaiah 43:18-19
 

You are living in a moment of time that one day may well define a second "Greatest Generation." The first "Greatest Generation" were the men of your father's generation - perhaps your father was one of the millions of Americans, Brits, French, Canadians, and others who heard the cry for help and ran towards the sound of guns. These boys who would become men overnight could not have foreseen on those painful runs up the hill called "Curahee" that generations of boys would also become men, rallied by the cry made famous by those first Screaming Eagles who remembered for the rest of their lives, "Curahee."

As you read this, God is calling forth a new generation of fathers - a "Band of Brothers" who will stand for one another and who will assault a world of "fatherlessness" with the same energy that the men of Easy Company, 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" attacked the first Curahee, a hill in Toccoa, Georgia and then the Nazi war machine on the fields of France, Holland, Austria and Germany.

On February 25, 2005, nine men drove into an otherwise nondescript town in Southwest Washington to ask a single question; "what is God saying in this hour?" Perhaps we were being called to pick up the challenge of Curahee as had a Company of men who would become a Band of Brothers and who would endure - and conquer even - the challenges of the most violent form of war the world had ever witnessed.

A footnote: In the late 1950's, the military changed its Phonetic Alphabet from Able, Baker, Easy, etc. to Alpha, Bravo... Echo.

Today's "Easy Company" is called "Echo Company." Perhaps there's a literal Echo being heard right now in the call to run to another summit for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven: Curahee!