Commemoration - Sailors Who Lost Their Lives, USS John S. McCain

The following sailors lost their lives when the naval destroyer John S. McCain and oil tanker Alnic MC collided on August 21, 2017:

Chief Electronics Technician Charles N. Findley, 31, Missouri

Chief Interior Communications Electrician Abraham Lopez, 39, Texas

Electronics Technician 1st Class Kevin S. Bushnell, 26, Maryland

Electronics Technician 1st Class, Jacob D. Drake, 21, Ohio

Systems Technician 1st Class Corey G.Ingram, 28, New York

Electronics Technician 2nd Class Dustin L. Doyon, 26, Connecticut

Electronics Technician 2nd Class John H. Hoagland III, 20, Texas

Interior Communications Electrician 2nd Class Logan S. Palmer, 23, Illinois

Electronics Technician 2nd Class Kenneth A. Smith, 22, New Jersey and

Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Timothy Thomas Eckels Jr., 23, Maryland

Dear Lord - Grant the above brave sailors grace at the moment of their awful overtaking. Amen.

This prayer comes from the famous Jesuit Priest Gerald Manley Hopkins.

He said the following after he said this prayer:

"...for God time is infinitely malleable and he will have heard what the poet (and the reader) asks even now a month  or a century on:

The prayer thou hearst me making
have, at the awful overtaking,
heard, have heard and granted
grace that day grace was wanted.

It is all one can do... only God can be in at the end, only the Father can help there.

He said this prayer for three hundred English Naval Cadets returning from a six month training cruise. They were sailing up the English Channel under full sail and were hit by a freak squall and capsized. Only one sailor survived.

Dear Lord - We also remember the forty eight brave sailors who required medical attention, and all the brave sailors on the John S. McCain who risked their lives saving their ship. Amen.

Dear Lord - Also remember the U.S. Navy divers who risked their lives for a week recovering the bodies. Amen.

Captain Bill Schweizer U.S.M.M., missionary, founder, and Wolfy
Mountaintop Sea Ministries International

Without menses-malice.