Burton Place Veterans Chapel and Library

About the Book

Sheldon Webster’s recognition of our obligation to our veterans and particularly to Gold Star families who have sacrificed so much inspired Sheldon to create the Burton Place Veterans Chapel and Library. In this book, he not only tells the story of his remembrance of the service of our veterans and particularly the service of four of his close friends who made the ultimate sacrifice but he also relates his spiritual journey through the development of this project. Even though the hand of God is always at work in our lives, we often do not see it. But the reader will be amazed to see how God worked and who and what He used to fulfil His plans for the Burton Place Veterans Chapel and Library. Interspersed with stories of war heroes, interesting characters and others who provided funds, materials, and construction labor for the Chapel, Sheldon Webster’s narrative clearly identifies significant events that could only be the unseen hand of God working out the establishment and the completion of the Chapel. While any one of the events described by Sheldon may appear to some as having happened by chance, there occurred in succession too many events necessary to complete the Chapel that can only be explained by God being in every detail of the Burton Place Veterans Chapel and Library. The reader is left with not just this specific truth but also with the truth that God is good and seeks our good for us, which truth should encourage us in our faith and give us perseverance and hope in all matters, both small and great, not only for ourselves but for our nation and all mankind.

About the Author

Born August 6, 1944 in Virginia, the author grew up on the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in Starkville, Mississippi. After graduating from Mississippi State University in 1966 with a degree in accounting, he served as an Army officer on the East German border during the Cold War. He practiced public accounting in Birmingham, Alabama for 50 years before retiring as a partner with Borland Benefield CPAs, founded in 1922. Webster was a founder and Chairman of BKR International, an affiliation of accountants and consultants headquartered in New York with offices in 80 countries. Mr. Webster has authored five works of fiction and served as a member of the Alabama Writer’s Forum Board. He rewrites American history in fictional form requiring extensive research, travel and interviews with former military and intelligence personnel, journalists, foreign officials and common people. Sheldon is a sportsman and once a mountaineer who climbed eight major mountains, including three of the world’s Seven Summits. In 1997 he survived a near-fatal expedition on Alaska’s Mount McKinley. As a world traveler he has visited seven continents and 150 foreign countries. Webster considers himself “a man of the rails” having ridden the world’s luxury trains and trains from hell. The author divides his time between Birmingham, Alabama, and Burton Place, his writer’s retreat in Oktoc, Mississippi. He is passionate about his service to American veterans and is the founder of the Burton Place Veterans Chapel and Library. He is the treasurer of the National Whitetail Warriors Project, Inc. a nonprofit serving 50% disabled veterans awarded Purple Hearts.