As we entered the town, it almost felt like stepping back into an old movie. The streets were all cobblestone, but a dirty and broken kind of cobblestone through years of neglect. Everything seemed, well, gray, for lack of a better word; there were very few splashes of color anywhere. (P.99) #thenightheroes #nightheroes #theironcurtain #thecoldwar

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2 Timothy 4:1-2,4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

“Here goes nothing, or everything,” I said, and I pushed the canoe into the water and jumped into the back. Instantly, and I mean instantly, we were in a fight for our lives. (P.82) #thenightheroes #nightheroes #theironcurtain #thecoldwar

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2 Timothy 3:1-5 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

As we stood on the banks of the river, I was very seriously rethinking the wisdom of this plan. Carrie stood beside me, and her words let me know she was thinking the exact same thing:

“People die in stuff like that, Kyle.” (P.81) #thenightheroes #nightheroes #theironcurtain #thecoldwar

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