{"id":2808,"date":"2016-11-07T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2016-11-07T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:17:40","slug":"god-ill-be-with-you-in-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2016\/11\/god-ill-be-with-you-in-a-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"As Japanese planes roared down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>&#8230;a new threat emerged. The first wave of the Japanese attack was over; the second wave was about to begin. But fighter planes still filled the skies, shooting at anything that moved. The U.S.S. Neosho, a fuel tanker, was docked ahead of the sinking <em>California<\/em>, not far from the <em>Oklahoma<\/em> and <em>Maryland<\/em>. Though the <em>Neosho<\/em> had unloaded most of its six million gallons of aviation fuel since arriving the day before, it still carried enough gasoline and vapor <strong>that a Japanese bullet in the wrong spot would create an explosion dwarfing anything seen so far<\/strong>. Trying to prevent this catastrophe, the crew of the <em>Neosho<\/em> had her underway, barely moving but headed across the narrow harbor to a safer berth at Merry Point.<br \/>\nI watched, fascinated and fearful, as the Japanese planes swarmed like bees toward the <em>Neosho<\/em>. I was only about four hundred yards away.<br \/>\n<em>One of those bullets is going to hit pretty soon<\/em>, I thought. <em>God, I\u2019ll be with you in a minute.<\/em><br \/>\nThe minute passed. My fire hose kept spraying. The Neosho kept inching farther into the harbor. The Japanese planes kept diving and firing. <em>God<\/em>, I thought, <em>I\u2019ll be with you in another minute.<\/em><br \/>\nAnother minute passed.<br \/>\nSuddenly my fear melted away, replaced by the most overwhelming sense of peace I\u2019d ever felt. For the next half hour, until the <em>Neosho<\/em> docked at Merry Point, I expected to die in the next minute. I was sure I would be ushered into God\u2019s presence\u2014and that was fine with me. Peace.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hear more from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/books.thedisciplemaker.org\/othersideofinfamy\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">103 year old Pearl Harbor survivor and Navigator Lt. Jim Downing<\/a>. 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