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I was at the beach...
I was on vacation with my mother, father, a friend of mine and her mother in Kentucky...
I looked up and thought to myself that I was sure that I had turned the light off, when I had gone to bed...
I was in the backyard getting jumped by my brothers for the millionth time (they may consider it playing, but I considered it me getting jumped)...
After being sent to the hospital, my body felt peaceful and amazing...
First: I was five years old, sitting atop an electric pole looking down at mother huddled over me and yelling for me to wake up...
I had just returned to Georgia from a reunion party in Texas...
The first event that I can remember was when I was three years old...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
My first experience was a feeling of floating...
After experiencing a 'non-survivable' heart attack, I passed out while being loaded into a helicopter for transport to a hospital...
My dad was on vacation with us during the summer of 1952...
