Am back! A tribute to the life of one who has fought the good fight and has gone to a better place!

I am back to blogging after an 8 year Hiatus. It has been an eventful past 2 weeks for me. Well we were in the middle of plans to organize a critical meeting of Christians in the marketplace when I got the sad news that my Paternal Grandad. Had passed on. He was a frail old man who died at the age of 91. A veteran of the 2nd World War where he was sent along with many others by the British to fight in the Jungles of Burma. Over 280,000 Soldiers were drafted from Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania to go and fight The Japanese in the Second world war between the periods of 1939 to 1945. In an interview with the press (http://observer.ug/features-sp-2084439083/profile/1651-65-years-laterworld-war-ii-veteran-would-serve-happily) He mentions that he was  drafted into the army at the tender age of 18, in 1942, and recruit number N-122948. He would later be shipped along with several other members of the Kings African Riffles to Pakistan where the Japanese were conducting a massacre against the pakistani allies. There were to late to prevent the massacre and he later succumbed to Malaria before he could witness much combat action and was sent back to Uganda and later discharged from the Army. He would later on become and a mechanic and Bus driver. He got married in 1952. It is not clear if it was the pressure of raising a family or if it was the trauma of war, but he struggled with an alchohol addiction untill he gave his life to Christ in 1974, when the winds of the Great East African Revival were sweeping across the Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Kenya.
He had been a devout christian since, using every opportunity to spread the word of God. He passed on at the age of 91 of diabetes on 24th July last week. He will be surely missed. RIP John Nidoi.