![]() ![]() Then it was sometime then that afternoon, we had seen the planes, heard them at 30,000 feet, and I say to McKissick, "I hear a plane." And he said, "I hear one, too," and if you can imagine somewhat that you hear a plane, and you know that it's somewhere coming closer, and yet you don't know which direction it is. I guess I was thinking of the good times in my mind with someone back home, and yet McKissick was Uncle Edwin to me. I'd served under him, and he was a peach of a guy, and yet, to me, he was Uncle Edwin, and I called him Uncle Edwin. And my mind, by now, is beginning to fail me somewhat in that – McKissick, I know, would say to me, "Hey, Marine, you ever been to the Philippines?" And, "No, I've never been there." Well, he had, and he promised to kind of take me under his wing when we got there. ![]() Even with my buddy at the time and, in fact, there were three of us at the tail end there that fourth day and the one then dropped his head in the water, and he's gone, and then it's just McKissick and myself. ![]() You were on a raft, but you’d been separated from your buddies, and on the fourth day you are virtually alone.Įd: No question. You had some rotten potatoes that had come after you'd prayed for some food. You'd only had a few tablespoons of water. Ed Harrell has been with us all this week and has told a story, a compelling story of how God enabled him to survive an ordeal at sea after being a crew member on the USS Indianapolis, which was sunk on the night of July 30, 1945, by a Japanese submarine.Įd, I want to thank you again for your service as a veteran, but also for writing this book and for taking us there and giving us a greater appreciation not just for veterans and what they've done to protect our freedom as Americans but also for taking us there and showing us what tough-minded faith in Almighty God looks like.īecause time and time again you've taken us to vivid scenes where you've been at a fork in the road where you've had to trust God, and you'd been at sea for four days in a life jacket. ![]() They have never come close to telling the story that we've heard this week.ĭennis: No, I agree, Bob. You know, Hollywood has told some tales of castaways left on a desert island, folks surviving in the middle of nowhere, and I've seen some of those movies, and you watch them, and they're interesting. And, that somehow, some way you’re going to see me through.īob: And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us. We'll hear today how God spared Ed Harrell's life, and we'll hear a remarkable story about a rescue in the middle of the Pacific.Įd: You have to just say thank you Lord, I know you’re speaking to my heart. Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. I've had many times that I've awakened and have a vivid scene of the happenings, and yet I think my counteraction to that is "Thank you, Lord, for sparing my life and for bringing me through all of this."īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Friday July 9th. Four-and-a-half days that, as you might imagine, Ed Harrell has never been able to forget.Įd: I have not had nightmares. They had stayed alive for four-and-a-half days. Bob: Sixty five years ago this month, marine Ed Harrell and a number of other survivors of the attack on the USS Indianapolis were pulled from the Pacific. ![]()
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