Where the name Psalm 23 Handyman came from…

Captain Howard Rutledge was a jet fighter pilot in the Vietnam war.  He flew several succesful bombing missions.  Then one day he was shot down.  He was held by the Vietnemese, from my recollection, as a POW for 5 years in solitary confinement.  If you have ever felt alone or been isolated without people for any length of time, you can imagine what TOTAL isolation is… but this was for FIVE YEARS!  Captain Rutledge was held as a POW for 7 years by the Vietnemese.  HIs prison cell was out in the jungle and open to the hot humid climate, insects, and rodents (rats the size of cats) ran through his prison cell/hut.  He was starvation fed.  His cell was his bathroom.  Jet fighter pilots are cream of the crop and I gather they get training to withstand interogation.  The thing that kept Captain Howard Rutledge from going mad and insane, wasn’t his intelectual prowess or militray training though.  It was the word of God!  He remembered as a boy learning Psalm 23 from his sunday school days.  He would recite that over and over in his mind.  The hope that Psalm 23 gave him, enabled him to endure such extreme torture and hardship.  “In the Presence of Mine Enemies” is his biography/story.  He has been photographed with Presedent Ronald Reagen.