{"id":12885,"date":"2011-09-02T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12885"},"modified":"2011-08-29T00:24:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T05:24:06","slug":"world-war-ii-veteran-recalls-gods-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/world-war-ii-veteran-recalls-gods-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II Veteran Recalls God&#8217;s Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local paper on the Fisher House covers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murfreesboropost.com\/whittle-military-heroes-deserve-fisher-house-cms-28316\">the story of Jesse Claude Cooper Jr.<\/a>, a Merchant Marine during World War II.\u00a0 His ship was torpedoed and sank, and he described his reaction to that event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He credits God with sustaining his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No other explanation, but that God had a reason for me to live and serve another day,&#8221; Cooper credited. &#8220;I was, you see, the last man to get in the last little life-rescue boat to leave the ship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was already a Christian, having been reared in church down in native Decatur, Alabama. But if I had not been a Christian, <!--more-->I would have become one when our ship was blown out from under us, and I realized I was still alive&#8230;I had a lot to be thankful for.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike many other professions, service in the military will very likely (and perhaps frequently) bring a servicemember face to face with his mortality.\u00a0 For some, that may become their &#8220;come to Jesus&#8221; time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local paper on the Fisher House covers the story of Jesse Claude Cooper Jr., a Merchant Marine during World War II.\u00a0 His ship was torpedoed and sank, and he described his reaction to that event: He credits God with sustaining his life. &#8220;No other explanation, but that God had a reason for me to live and serve another day,&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[20,2152,2151,2,36,10,123],"class_list":["post-12885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-atheism","tag-jesse-claude-cooper","tag-merchant-marine","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religion","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}