Sunday's Internet Edition, May 11, 2008.
J.B. Davis says
things are better
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| 15 pounds lighter, J.B. Davis is home from Iraq. His diet technique: Carrying a 45-pound pack all day long every day. |
The Clemmons Courier - Chaotic firefights seem light years away for former deputy J.B. Davis of Clemmons, but he is back home to stay after several harrowing tours of duty in Iraq.
For years Davis, 48, served the Clemmons area for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Department. He arrived home from Iraq last week.
A member of Family Tabernacle Church in Lewisville, Davis said his faith helped him in Iraq.
“If I was a cat, I’d probably have no lives left,” he said. “I’ve been, you know, in the heat of things. God sheltered me. I literally quit counting the IUD strikes on my vehicle after like seven. God has protected me. I was two years there. It was almost every day at least five times a week outside the wire.”
He prayed every day.
“I decided the first day I wouldn’t let the Muslims outpray me. So every time they came out, I prayed. I’d have a specific prayer that I prayed when I went outside the wire that I would pray. I have it written down somewhere. It was on the back of a notebook that I used.
“They prayed five days a day. You’d hear it in the morning. You’d hear it between breakfast and lunch and then about lunchtime. Then right at sunset they would go again. The call would go out. You wouldn’t see a lot of them go out. When a Muslim man prays, he puts a board on the ground and gets on the ground. It is a call for prayer over the loudspeaker all the time.”
He was impressed with the men and women he worked with.