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An amazing story...
Of the power of prayer...
A mother's faith...
And God's miracle-working power...
In June 2005, 19-year-old Marine Lance Corporal, John McClellan, was deployed to Kunar Province, Afghanistan. In October 2005, while on duty as a machine gunner, Lcpl McClellan earned his first two of three purple hearts when he was shot twice in the same arm -- in the same week!
The injuries he sustained were viewed as miraculously minor. The first, an enemy AK-47 bullet, ricocheted off the humvee turret on which he was the gunner. The bullet fragment embedded in his right wrist.Within three days, Lcpl McClellan was back in the turret. Three days later, he was shot a second time. Again, an enemy AK-47 bullet penetrated the upper portion of his right arm. This time the bullet entered the front and exited out the back. But it didn't hit and it didn't hurt -- anything! Within two weeks, he was again back in the turret! On September 11, 2006, McClellan was deployed to Haditha, Iraq. Fifteen days later on September 26 while on patrol, he was shot through the head by an enemy sniper. The phone call received by his parents at midnight that night was every parent's worst nightmare. Immediately after receiving the devastating news from the hospital in Balad, Iraq, John's mother, Connie McClellan, sent an e-mail to her e-mail address book leading and asking for prayer. Her only child had been shot in the head and according to the doctor in Balad, "If he survives the brain swelling, he will never be the same and will probably be a vegetable." That e-mail was the first of more than 150 e-mails that Connie McClellan sent to her prayer network during the 15 months following John's head injury. The journal created by the daily e-mails is a fascinating account of the 24 miracles that God performed on John, now referred to as "My Miracle Marine" by his parents, family, friends and community. (Please see Photo Album page for complete pictorial account of John's miraculous recovery along with television newscasts which followed his progress.)
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Read some of the articles that have been written about Lcpl John McClellan, the injuries he sustained, his courage and his recovery by clicking on the following links:
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AS HEARD ON THE LAURA INGRAHAM RADIO SHOW ON JULY 30, 2008.
My Miracle Marine will serve as a coping manual for anyone who has loved ones in the military, or anyone with loved ones injured in the military, OR anyone going through a difficult time and in need of hope. With this book, by example, you will learn how to utilize your e-mail address book as an effective prayer network.
