Rarely an author writes a book the whole family can share and really enjoy. As controversial as the subject may be about the existence of angels on earth, it gives everyone a chance to voice his or her own opinion. It is also a story that allows you to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes before you pass judgment on them. Hobo Ted’s Last Train Home is that kind of book.

Chuck Wilson left for dead, lay unconscious in a jungle infested with poisonous snakes and wild animals. Suffering from a gunshot wound to his head, he was all alone. He knew he was somewhere in Vietnam, but little else. Everyone thought he was dead. The enemy proved to be a lot more than the mercenaries he was secretly there to advise could handle.

It took five years before he recovered. When he finally reached an Army outpost, it was very different from the heroes welcome he had imagined getting. Service records listed him as having died five years earlier in another country.

The Pentagon stood by their official statement, Chuck Wilson was never in Vietnam. To admit he was, could cause tensions between the United States and North Vietnam to flare up again. Just knowing he was still alive could trigger an armed conflict. Chuck believed angels watched over him. He felt there was no way he could have survived all those near death experiences without them. After reading this story, I feel certain you will agree what happened to Chuck, was definitely beyond the call of duty of any American soldier.

How many out there feel the same way about angels as I? To the best of my knowledge, I have never seen one, although I have felt their presence around me many times.

The Bible I study teaches me to be careful, because we entertain angels unaware. Others I talked too were reluctant to call them angels, but said if it were not for an encounter of a third kind, they may not be alive today.

Could a premonition be considered a celestial warning? You know, that strong inner feeling you get about a possible danger if you take that trip, or do not get on that particular airplane, take another flight instead, etc. Later you found out a taxi, on its way to the airport about the same time you would have left, crashed. The passengers all died or were crippled for life. Did you stop and think that might have been you?

Maybe it was just an uneasy feeling you suddenly got about attending a social event. Suddenly, at the last minute you got a funny feeling. It kept running through your mind not to go there. You followed your premonition that evening and stayed home.

The next morning while watching the local news, you saw where some person showed up at the party uninvited and went berserk. He shot several innocent people.

Where do you suppose our inner thoughts come from? Could it be something we just conjure up in our minds? Personally, I do not think so.

If I thought I was just lucky all my life, I would have moved to Las Vegas years ago and made a fortune playing the slot machines.

I told you this was a controversial book. I am just relating events told to me or I saw printed in newspaper articles from eyewitness accounts. Some of these stories I have no way of authenticating, still other events I actually saw or they personally happened to me.

You can ask three different people about the possibilities of angels here on earth, and you will get three different answers. We may all have our own interpretations as to who angels are and what they really look like.

In spite of all the confessed non-believers in this world, I wonder why most of them call on a higher power when faced with a life or death situation.

“God help me,” is the most common phrase used.

Ernie Pyle, a popular war correspondent during World War 11, wrote this during the battle to control Wake Island in 1942, “There are no atheists in foxholes.”

Did Chuck Wilson survive because he was just plain lucky, or was it coincidence? Could it be possible angels were really watching over him after all?