Emphasis Preaching Journal

Eugene Burdicks wrote a book entitled The 480, which was the story of Thatch, a young American engineer, assigned for four years to India to construct a bridge across the river that separated India from Pakistan. The two countries were tense and on edge, on the verge of war. And when he almost had the bridge completed there were already thousands and thousands of refugees on both sides who were kin to each other, who wanted to cross and mix once again as one. But a stray plane from Pakistan was shot down by the Indian Air Force artillery. It created a real panic and a terrible crisis.