Did Monson pull a Dunn during his Saturday evening talk?

[_Polygamy-Porter]

During Monson's talk at the priesthood meeting yesterday, he cited a story about two marines during the battle on Kwajalein Atoll.

In his talk he claims this was reported by a non Mormon correspondent for a news paper in Hawaii.

The reporter and other correspondents noticed a Marine lying face down in the water, badly wounded. Another Marine, also wounded, with his left arm hanging helplessly by his side, moved toward his wounded comrade and lifted his head to keep him from drowning. The rescuer called for help, but the correspondents called back that there was nothing he could do for the young man.

The correspondent reported that the rescuer, badly wounded himself, made his way to the shore with the seemingly lifeless body of his fellow Marine. The correspondent wrote: "And the one boy bowed his head over the other and said, 'I command you, in the name of Jesus Christ and by the power of the priesthood, to remain alive until I can get medical help.'"

"The correspondent concluded his article, 'The three of us [the two Marines and I] are here in the hospital. The doctors don't know ... [how they made it alive], but I know.'"

REALLY??

One marine FACE DOWN IN THE WATER, as in sucking water into his lungs.. pulled out of the water by another marine with only one good arm.

The newspaper correspondent RECORDS this event??

CFR!

Can anyone please prove that the reporter even wrote this? Monson claimed it was published in Hawaii.

I am calling BS until I see proof of such article.

Prove the article exists and then we will talk about whether a nearly dead man found FACE DOWN IN WATER for minutes can survive regardless of something an unwitting Mormon utters.

[_zeezrom]

All I know is he used very dramatic and breathy tones. He was theatrical is a sort of RC Willey way.

[_Morley]

Monson is playing off the mythos is that, in war, bravery and nobility and God are found. In reality, sometimes one will find bravery and nobility.

[_Nightlion]

All I know is he used very dramatic and breathy tones. He was theatrical is a sort of RC Willey way.

RC Willey! lol you're killing me. I agree TSM can't sell and has always had the most patently phony delivery of all GAs. Now that he is the man it is embarrassing.

The coward stake president who, after telling me that he knew I had the Spirit, cast me out because he was told, this TSM with GBH gave a pass to and denied my appeal, while President Benson, who may well have been for me, was "incapacitated".

[_SteelHead]

He dunn it before on the war stories....... ;) Same story twice, with slightly different details.

[_Shulem]

President Thomas S. Monson is a liar. He is another Dunn-ass.

I'd love for him to get up and tell the saints how he knows the Explanations of Facsimile No. 3 are true.

Monson is fat coward, hand fed lots of food products by those who worship him. He's like a queen termite laying all kinds of lying eggs.

Paul O

[_Drifting]

With that kind of power why didn't the marine command that all the injured be spared until medical attention arrived? It seems an awful lot of soldiers died through the neglect of the Priesthood then...

[_Drifting]

What a shame the Japenese and Koreans and local villagers didn't have any worthy Priesthood holders fighting with them...

On January 31, 1944, the 7th Infantry Division, spearheaded by the 111th Infantry Regiment performed an amphibious assault on Kwajalein. On February 1, 1944, Kwajalein was the target of the most concentrated bombardment of the Pacific War. Thirty-six thousand shells from naval ships and ground artillery on a nearby islet struck Kwajalein.[18] American B-24 Liberator bombers aerially bombarded the island, adding to the destruction.
Of the 8,782 Japanese personnel[19] deployed to the atoll (including Korean laborers), it has been argued that only 2,200 were combat trained. Nevertheless, Japanese resistance was strong and resilient, although the Japanese troops were outnumbered by tens of thousands of American troops. By the end of the battle, 373 Americans were killed, 7,870 "Japanese" were killed.[20] U.S. military documents do not discriminate the Japanese from Korean dead; however, the Korean Government's Truth Commission for Forced Labor Under Japanese Imperialism reports an official figure from the Japanese government of 310 Koreans killed in the American invasion of Kwajalein. Whether this figure represents Kwajalein islet or the whole atoll is unclear.
Since no distinction was made between dead Japanese soldiers and Korean laborers, both are enshrined as war hero guardian spirits for the Japanese nation in Yasukuni Shrine. This suggests that these Koreans died for the sake of Japan. In fact, they were forced laborers.
Additionally, an estimated 200 Marshallese were killed. Kwajalein was one of the few locations in the Pacific war where Islanders were killed while actually fighting for the Japanese. They were not all fighting for the same reasons.[21]

[_Drifting]

It's yet another rehash of a previous talk...

“Then,” wrote the correspondent, “I saw something that I had never seen before. This boy, badly wounded himself, made his way to the shore with the seemingly lifeless body of his fellow marine. He put the head of his companion on his knee. What a picture that was—these two mortally wounded boys—both . . . clean, wonderful-looking young men, even in their distressing situation. And the one boy bowed his head over the other and said, ‘I command you, in the name of Jesus Christ and by the power of the priesthood, to remain alive until I can get medical help.’ ” The correspondent concluded his article: “The three of us, [the two marines and I], are here in the hospital. The doctors don’t know . . . [how they made it alive], but I know” (Ernest Eberhard Jr., “Giving Our Young Men the Proper Priesthood Perspective,” July 19, 1971).

(There is no record of this original piece by Eberhard on LDS.org)