Marilyn Monroe stretched out on the floor of the Osaka Military Hospital in Japan, to smile up at Private Albert Evans of Canton, Ohio, who was suspended upside down over his bed after breaking his back in a jeep accident.

1954

My Guess is he's reading the Bible, where else will you go to find true comfort when tragedy strikes. Not to dismiss or say that having Marilyn Monroe visit you wouldn't cheer you up, and as I look at her radiant smile I can only imagine how this suffering soldier was uplifted and amazed that she would make time for him. I'm sure he fed on the afterglow of that visit for days, but with time it will have faded and the need of the heart is to have an ever present friend, and oh what a friend we have in Jesus.