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Beginning at the age of two, he made statements and demonstrated behaviors that suggested he remembered the life of an American pilot killed during World War II, a young man who has now been identified as one James M. Huston, Jr. They were among the personal effects of James Huston sent home after the war.

Ralph Clarbour, a rear gunner on a U.S. airplane that flew off the Natoma Bay, says his plane was right next to one flown by James M. Huston Jr. during a raid near Iwo Jima on March 3, 1945. How Freeganism is Combating Wastefullness in Ame... The Reincarnation of a WW2 Fighter Pilot , 23 Things I've Accomplished in 23 Years . Impressed by the strength of the case, Tucker once again contacted the Leiningers.

In 1997, he reportedly donated $1.5 million to Vanderbilt University, $2.5 million to Vision Forum, $3 million to the University of Miami, and $300,000 for diabetes research to the University of Texas Medical Center. [17], In addition to political contributions, Leininger supports a range of charitable initiatives in areas including education, humanitarian aid, and scientific research. He could not have read about Huston or the Natoma Bay. In a 2013 clip on Fox and Friends,34  Bruce describes the successful investigation, while James, now 15, describes how the nightmares ceased after a ‘spiritual release’ experienced at the site of the crash.

"I didn't know what a drop tank was.".

Andrea's mother suggested she look into the work of counselor and therapist Carol Bowman, who believes that the dead sometimes can be reborn. [3] He later settled in San Antonio and taught at the University of Texas Health Science Center from 1972-1973. James W. Leininger, 76, of Brooksville, Florida, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Wednesday, April 29, 2020…

He then started to approach Natoma Bay veterans, who proved forthcoming. Andrea says her mom was the first to suggest James was remembering a past life. [8] He currently sits on the boards of BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals and Spurs Sports & Entertainment. [5] He is a former board member of the Carver Academy.

From an early age, James would play with nothing else but planes, his parents say. James refused to leave until Bruce promised to bring him to see real planes taking off.

Much more than the average kid would obsess about something and he knew a lot about war planes in particular. Bruce was stunned that the two-year-old James, still in diapers, knew the name of a plane that was used during WWII and that it was launched from aircraft carriers. Plane on fire! ", 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. Asked if the idea that James may have been someone else changes his or his wife's feeling about their son, Bruce said: "It doesn't change how we think.

Loving mother of Cheryl Rich, Linda (Jeff) Harrison and Scott (Mary) Leininger. Skeptico (2005). Dear sister of Lois Wirtz. He called the Japanese planes Zekes or Bettys. His name might have been forgotten, were it not for 6-year-old James Leininger. He loved them. The trip, recounted in Soul Survivor,33 appeared to bring about a healing catharsis, as his drawings afterwards became less destructive and chaotic. [4][5][6] One of his Kinetic Concepts employees, Susan Weddington of San Antonio, was from 1997 to 2003 the state chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.[7]. Bowman said James was at the age when former lives are most easily recalled. “They used to get flat tires all the time! He adds that he occasionally remembers his previous life but is moving forward with his current one. James Leininger was born in 1998 to Bruce and Andrea Leininger of Dallas, Texas, who later moved to Lafayette, Louisiana. Bruce soon learned that the only pilot from the squadron killed at Iwo Jima was James M. Huston Jr. Bruce says James also told him his plane had sustained a direct hit on the engine. 200-207. http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/07/reincarnation_a.html, http://natomabaycve62.org/logbook/pdfs/LogbookVC81.pdf, http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Technology/story?id=894217&page=1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWCUjx4nI98&t=75s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9u2EpK35PY, his plane was shot in the engine and crashed in water, the plane was on fire and sank, and he could not get out, Corsairs tended to get flat tires when they landed. Never!”. James' father took him to the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Texas and he says that he could not believe how mesmerized his son was by the whole thing. James’s parents wrote a best-selling book about their investigation, and the case received widespread media attention.

Reincarnation all over again (July 7, 2005). On the last evening, they had a moonlight dinner at the beach. (A drop tank is an external fuel tank of an airplane that can be removed or dropped.) At the age of two, James began to have recurring nightmares where the boy would shout “Airplane crash!

Powered by  - Designed with the Hueman theme. Little man can’t get out!” There will be no such thing as a past life. New York: Bantam. He also began expressing his memories in art, obsessively drawing naval-aerial battles between Americans and Japanese, in which planes were burning and crashing, bullets and bombs exploding all around. James Madison Leininger was born on April 10, 1998 in San Francisco, to Bruce Leininger, a human resources executive, and Andrea Leininger, a resume-writer, homemaker and former professional dancer. On the local level, Leininger's political action committees were involved in the narrow victory of Hispanic Republican Nathan Macias to the Texas House of Representatives in 2006. & Leininger, B., with K. Gross (2009). Quite a few people — including those who knew the fighter pilot — think James is the pilot, reincarnated.

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Bruce Leininger was uncomfortable with the idea of reincarnation and began to research his son’s statements in the firm hope of ruling this out.

Every birthday or Christmas brought him a shower of new airplane toys. In 1977, Bruce and Andrew indeed went to Hawaii and stayed at the Royal Hawaii, a pink hotel on Waikiki beach. James' parents, Andrea and Bruce, a highly educated, modern couple, say they are "probably the people least likely to have a scenario like this pop up in their lives.". Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? .

Brunce and Andrea later would often hear from James utterances that showed that James seemed familiar with propeller planes. Then one day, when Andrew was telling James a story from a book, James lay down beside Andrew and said, “Mama, the little man’s going like this,” and then he kicked both feet towards the ceiling, and said, “Ohhh! The program generated further media attention, including articles in major newspapers worldwide, and TV reports. In fact, historians and pilots agree that the plane's tires took a lot of punishment on landing. Age 82 of Southgate. Later, when he googled for Natoma, he found that indeed Natoma Bay was the name of an aircraft carrier that was used during World War II. The article also argued the case was invalidated by the fact that James Huston was shot down while flying an FM2 Wildcat rather than a Corsair.23, Tucker contacted the Cavanaugh Flight Museum and learned that it had no Corsair on display between 1999 and 2003, the time period of James’s first two visits.24, Tucker disputed the claim that Bruce Leininger was party to a manufactured reincarnation fantasy, having observed first hand his refusal to believe that reincarnation was the explanation, and noting that his extensive research was in fact intended to disprove the notion. His name might have been forgotten, were it not for 6-year-old James Leininger.

. Upon being asked where the boat took off from, James replied, “A boat.”. %PDF-1.7 %���� [5] Other recipients include Boy Scouts of America, Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross, the Mental Health Association, YMCA, The Miracle Foundation, along with orphanages in India, Romania, Central America, Haiti, Ukraine, Russia, Myanmar, Thailand, and thirteen countries in Africa. Two years later, ABC contacted the Leiningers again, asking if they’d be interested in participating in a segment for ABC Primetime, hosted by Chris Cuomo. His other business ventures include the private venture investment firm MedCare Investment Funds in 1991, the co-founding of ATX Technologies in 1994 (later serving on its board of directors), and co-founding the Renal Care Group in 1995. The sisters of Andrea thought that James was simply too wrapped up in airplanes and should be distracted with other toys, such as cars. Tucker, J.B. (2016).

With regard to coincidence, Tucker considered the possibility of such detailed statements exactly matching the identity and circumstances of a particular deceased individual by pure chance to be infinitesimally small. Retrieved Jan. 19, 2017 from http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/07/reincarnation_a.html. A Skeptico blogpost attributed James’s experiences to his first visit to the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, noting that one of the planes displayed there is a Corsair. "[5] He sits on the board of Patrick Henry College, founded in Virginia by the conservative activist Michael Farris. About James Leininger, French says, “Although his parents insisted they never watched World War II documentaries or talked about military history, we do know that at 18 months of age, James … When asked why these names, he said that “The boy planes were fighters and the girl planes were bombers.” Bruce checked this in the internet and again James was right. Bruce asked, “Do you remember what kind of an airplane the little man flew?”.

James shrieked as he saw an old F-105 Thunderchief plane and was mesmerized by it and stayed in the museum for three hours.

James' parents thought it was a little odd that their son wouldn’t play with any other toys except planes but they didn’t think too much of it at first because a lot of little boys are obsessed with certain things at that young age.

Right where James Leininger had pointed out in his father's book. To get him to leave Bruce bought him a video of the Navy Blue Angels and Bruce says after this James had the video on all the time. That’s a dwop tank.” Andrea did not even know what a drop tank was. He was firm in his Christian beliefs.

Then James' violent nightmares got worse, occurring three and four times a week. The combination of his detailed memories and the ability of the parents to verify them through painstaking research makes this a particularly interesting case, and it is one of the best-known of its kind in the Western world. The program’s producer, Shalini Sharma, came to visit James.

While James could not remember his own family name in his dream, he remembered that Jack’s family name was “Larsen” and that he was also a pilot. “Jack,” he replied. What he drew were always about planes and battles. . [2], Reared in Indiana and Florida, Leininger attended Indiana University in Indianapolis, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 and an M.D.