Surviving the USS Indianapolis: A Tribute to Valor and Leadership

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Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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What kind of resilience does it take to survive one of the most tragic events in U.S. naval history? Join us as WWII veteran Edgar Harrell paints a vivid picture of the harrowing night the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed, sinking within minutes and leaving countless sailors to fend for their lives in shark-infested waters. Edgar’s gripping narrative not only honors the fallen but also serves as a profound reminder of the sacrifices made by our military personnel.Beyond recounting this astonish...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wall Builders Show. You have found your way to the intersection of faith and the culture,
0:12.0	where we look at everything going on in the world
0:14.1	around us with the lens for a biblical, a constitutional, and a historic
0:18.0	perspective. My name is Tim Barton. I'm the president of all builders. I am
0:21.2	joined today with my dad in studio.
0:24.2	My dad is the founder of Wall Builders, David Barton.
0:27.3	He's also known as America's historian.
0:29.2	Generally, we will have Rick Green with us.
0:32.2	He's now been able to join us for this series.
0:35.6	And it's no problem.
0:37.1	It's the nature of us traveling.
0:38.5	We go different directions all the time.
0:39.8	But we are in the a couple days past that but the special that we filmed for TV had some really
0:56.2	significant interviews and history and content and so even though we're past Memorial
1:01.2	Day we recognize that most Americans just haven't heard
1:04.7	a lot of the history and the stories
1:07.2	that are significant that have helped America
1:09.2	become who we are and why do we do what we do?
1:11.8	And at Wall Builders, we always want to take time to help teach people, walk people through those stories and dad today, we had the chance actually more than one occasion to meet Edgar Harold and his story is one of the most
1:25.2	sombering harrowing stories I've ever heard from anyone military or otherwise ever.
1:30.6	Yeah Edgar is a World War II survivor of the greatest naval disaster,
1:36.8	single naval disaster in American history. There were more people killed in
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