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Knee Slappers

On assignment with Joe Alsop — a Vietnam War memoir.

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“Oh very amusing… very amusing,” he said amidst high-pitched chucklings. “You see, what happened was that the pastor announced that next Sunday he would be conducting the baptism of a new born baby. And then he said: ‘Would the father of the baby please stand up?’”

For some reason, this story of the three-fathered baby in the Vietnamese village church never made it into the columns of the Washington Post.

Jonathan Aitken, The American Spectator’s High Spirits columnist, is author of the new book Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed (Doubleday).This article appears in the July/August issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe, please click here.

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About the Author

Jonathan Aitken, The American Spectator’s High Spirits columnist, is most recently author of John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace (Crossway Books). His biographies include Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed (Doubleday) and Nixon: A Life, now available in a new paperback edition (Regnery).

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