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What Gary Beikirch did to receive his medal is unforgettableand the story of what he overcame afterward is as big and moving as they come.Gary Sinise
After dawn the siege began. It was April 1, 1970, and Army Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch knew the odds were stacked against their survival. Some 10,000 enemy soldiers sought to obliterate the twelve American Special Forces troops and 400 indigenous fighters who stood fast to defend 2,300 women and children inside the village of Dak Seang. For his valor and selflessness during the ruthless siege, Beikirch would be awarded a Medal of Honor, the nations highest and most prestigious military decoration.
But Gary returned home wounded in body, mind, and soul. To find himself again, Gary retreated to a cave in the mountains of New England, where a redemptive encounter with God allowed Gary to find peace.
New York Times best-selling author Marcus Brotherton chronicles the incredible true story of a person who changed from lost to found. Gripping and unforgettable, and written with a rich and vivid narrative voice, Blaze of Light will inspire you to answer hurt with ingenuity, to reach for faith, and to find clarity and peace within any season of storm.
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The Medal of Honor Society is comprised of a highly elite group of American heroes. What Gary Beikirch did to receive his medal is unforgettableand the story of what he overcame afterward is as big and moving as they come.
G ARY S INISE , Oscar-nominated actor
From the windblast of landing choppers to the sensory assault of close-quarters battle, Blaze of Light put me right in the middle of the steaming jungles of Vietnam. Gary Beikirch was grievously wounded and facing a ruthless enemy, and his selfless choices made him the rarest of war heroesone whose valor is measured not in lives taken but in lives saved.
L YNN V INCENT , New York Times best-selling author of Indianapolis
You will be blessed by this story of amazing courage and selflessness. What happened on April 1, 1970, at Camp Dak Seang in the Kontum Province of South Vietnam forever changed the life of Gary Beikirch. He is a true American heroa man of humility, faith, and servant leadership. This story is so powerful it could change your life.
C OLONEL J IM C OY ( R ET.) , 3rd SFG, Persian Gulf War
Those who have experienced battle say time expands. Seconds feel like minutes, and minutes and hours stretch into virtual time warps. Marcus Brotherton successfully illustrates such perception of time in his telling of Gary Beikirchs harrowing story. Marcus propelled me into the darkness of impending doom with speed and precision while casting light on the humanity and bravery of the characters who inhabit the pages I blew through. This book left me thoroughly inspired and honored to have met yet another hero who earned the Medal of Honor.
E RIC B LEHM , New York Times best-selling author of Fearless,Legend, and The Only Thing Worth Dying For
I was on the Nixon White House staff while Gary Beikirch was serving in Vietnams jungles. As the White House looked at the mega-issues of the war, we too easily lost sight of the incredible micro-moments of heroism displayed by Gary and others, which are so skillfully described by Marcus Brotherton. Marcus shows not only the intensity of the war in the compound where Gary fought but also the pathos in the soul of the warrior. This book sheds needed light in an age when many are trapped in the darkness of PTSD.
W ALLACE H ENLEY , former White House and congressional aide and coauthor of God and Churchill, with Sir Winston Churchills great-grandson Jonathan Sandys
Gary Beikirchs lifelong trek has been an especially arduous and inspiring journeya broken home; the war-ravaged jungles of southeast Asia; a desperate post-battle, edge-of-death encounter with God in a Pleiku hospital; and the lonely dark tunnel of PTSDculminating in a mountainside cave where he finally found peace on every front. This hard-core warrior experienced tenderness and hope through the gracious pursuit of the Savior. Read Garys story, weep tears of joy, and know that his life and this book are for Christs honor!
S TU W EBER , pastor and author of Tender Warrior
Shiftys War
A Company of Heroes
We Who Are Alive and Remain
Call of Duty (with Lt. Buck Compton)
Tough as They Come (with SSG Travis Mills)
The Nightingale of Mosul (with Col. Susan Luz)
Voices of the Pacific (with Adam Makos)
Grateful American (with Gary Sinise)
Feast for Thieves
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Scripture quotations marked ( KJV ) are taken from the King James Version. Scripture quotations marked ( NLT ) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Details in some anecdotes and stories have been changed to protect the identities of the persons involved.
Hardcover ISBN9780525653783
Ebook ISBN9780525653790
Copyright 2020 by Marcus Brotherton
Cover design by Kristopher K. Orr; cover photography by Getty Images, Picavet (sunset), Alamy, Aviation Visuals (helicopter)
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Published in the United States by WaterBrook, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Brotherton, Marcus, author.
Title: Blaze of light : the inspiring true story of Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor recipient / by Marcus Brotherton.
Description: First edition. | Colorado Springs : WaterBrook, an imprint of Random House, 2020.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019027340 | ISBN 9780525653783 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525653790 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Beikirch, Gary B. (Gary Burnell), 1947- | United States. Army. Special ForcesBiography. | Medal of HonorBiography. | Medical personnelUnited StatesBiography. | Vietnam War, 1961-1975Medical careUnited States. | Christian biographyUnited States.
Classification: LCC U53.B378 A3 2020 | DDC 959.704/37 [B]dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019027340
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For anyone whos ever fought through a battle
or sheltered in a cave
In the haze before sunset, on the first day of the siege, an enemy rocket destroyed the last building still standing in the village of Dak Seang. He saw it explode in a chaos of splinters and nails while bullets whizzed overhead and mortars from the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) shook the ground. The smell of sulfur and burning bodies filled the air. Still, he knew the assault wasnt over yet.
It was April 1, 1970. Army Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch, age twenty-two, lay in a two-foot-deep bomb crater on a stretcher, paralyzed from the waist down, watching the battle continue to rage while he drifted in and out of consciousness. Blood seeped from three wounds in his stomach and back. Hed done all he could to help, even after being paralyzed. Hed cared for the wounded until he collapsed. In one hand he still clutched a short CAR-15 snub-nose assault rifle, a protector of the innocent lives in his charge. But now even the strength to keep his eyes open was nearly gone.
Breathing hard next to him, dressed in baggy jungle fatigues, a T-shirt, and unlaced boots, lay a young Montagnard medical assistant named Tot. He held an old Korean-era M2 carbine, but with his bandolier of ammo spent, the only bullets left were in his magazine. This was his village, located in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, about twelve kilometers from the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
To Garys other side lay another Green Beretone of the best-trained specialists in the military. Short, muscular, chewing the stump of an unlit cigar, Dizzine was his last name. Everybody called him Dizzy. He had his communications radio pressed against his ear so he could discern the commands through the static. He was nearly out of ammo too.
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