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Don Adams: I Believe Prayer Alone Saved My Life in 1943
Corps Stories - Oridary Marines. Extraordinary Lives ^

Posted on 09/26/2005 9:23:02 PM PDT by anymouse

DON ADAMS

Article from: "Don Adams: I Believe Prayer Alone Saved My Life in 1943,"The National Enquirer.

"When you're only 16 and waiting to die --- you're scared," TV star Don Adams told The ENQUIRER.

It was 1943. Adams, who had enlisted in the Marines, had caught blackwater fever on Guadalcanal in the South Pacific.

"After being flown to a hospital in Wellington, New Zealand, I was told nothing much could be done for me," he recalled. "I was just left to die.

"That's when I started praying. I prayed night and day that my life might be spared.

"Five days later I woke to find the fever and all its symptoms completely disappeared.

"Before that my body was so badly bloated that it was more than twice its normal size. The doctors had not scientific explanation for what seemed a miraculous recovery. Logic told them I should have died.

"Today there are no physical indications that I ever suffered from such an ordeal.

"It is as though I never had blackwater fever.

"I believe that it was prayer and prayer alone that saved my life.

"At a time like that I knew the only help I could expect would be from God.

"He was my only hope for survival."

"Since that time I've been convinced someone up there is watching over every one of us.

"Miracles have only one origin."


TOPICS: Humor; Military/Veterans; Religion; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: donadams; getsmart; marines; prayer; wwii

Yes Don, we believe. R.I.P.

The Pearly Gates just received their latest sentry.

1 posted on 09/26/2005 9:23:03 PM PDT by anymouse
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To: anymouse

I read this today, thanks for posting it here.


2 posted on 09/26/2005 9:25:23 PM PDT by jocon307 (Sorry for my bad attitude)
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To: anymouse
"Would you believe Prayer Alone Saved My Life?"

Death - missed it by that much.

3 posted on 09/26/2005 9:34:14 PM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: anymouse

"The Pearly Gates just received their latest sentry."

Be glad to see him when I get there.

(I have not served. My tagline honors my son and my cousin.)


4 posted on 09/26/2005 9:35:49 PM PDT by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: anymouse

Thanks for the chillbumps. ;)


5 posted on 09/27/2005 8:15:20 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: BellStar

ping


6 posted on 09/27/2005 12:50:42 PM PDT by anymouse
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