Whoa! I was at a return visit with this Mormon couple and the young man quoted me a story of a British soldier in the trenches. The call to charge the enemy lines came. The Brit was in no-mans land among all the ruckus and as the enemy was routed and the noise of battle quieted down, he heard the whistling of a mormon hymn, thinking one of his fellows was still in no-man's land made him think that he might be wounded and could be a mormon too.
So he went farther away from the trench and on his belly made his way to a bomb crater where the whistling was coming from. To his surprise the fellow was an enemy soldier who'd been bayoneted but still alive though bleeding and probably whistling to distract his mind from the pain of his injury.
When the enemy soldier saw him appear his face contorted in horror thinking he was probably going to be wounded again and this time for good. But then the British soldier started singing in a soft voice the words of the song, then whistling the tune of that same hymn. The enemy soldier in realization that he was face to face with a fellow mormon, looked up to the heavens, and slumped back with a big sigh.
Knowing that the enemy soldier was probably near dying from the injury and blood loss, the British soldier took action and grabbing him by the collar of his coat pulled him behind himself as he crawled back to the safety of his trench.
He saw to it that the enemy was seen by a medic right away and was gurney'd off to a prisoners of war hospital.
My call recounted this story as proof that God had a hand in bringing these two mormons on opposite sides of the war together to save a life.
I guess this doesn't happen with Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox or atheist soldiers, only among cults, which is quite interesting.
