Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin

and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

So imagine you're in a life raft that's roughly the size of a queen-sized mattress,

and you're in the middle of the ocean with two other men.

And there are sharks swimming around your raft, and there's no land in sight.

So this is where Louis Zamperini was in May of 1943.

So he and two other men are floating somewhere in the middle of the Pacific

Ocean during World War II after their B-24 bomber went down. So almost everyone in the crew died,

but Zamperini and these two other men pulled themselves into two small rubber rafts. And they have it

with them. And the only thing they have with them other than these boats are a few

pieces of candy and half a chocolate bar. They have no survival supplies and most importantly

no drinking water, and the nearest land is over a thousand miles away. So on day 27, one of the men

dies and they lose one of the rafts. And on day 33, a Japanese aircraft spots them in the ocean

and strafes them with machine gunfire.

So the men realizing what's happening,

they roll into the water, which again is shark infested

as the Japanese pilot strafes them eight different times.

And miraculously, neither of them are killed killed nor is their raft sunk. And so they

continue on trying to survive in the ocean by catching rainwater with their mouths, eating raw fish and

birds. And they basically continue drifting until day 47 when they're finally picked up.

Unfortunately for these two Americans, they were picked up by the Japanese Navy.

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