• Ed Harrell, survivor of the worst Naval disaster in US History, gives his testimony during Veteran’s Day event

    Mr. Edgar Harrell, retired Cpl., US Marine Corps, and a Survivor of the USS Indianapolis spoke at the Brown County High School Veterans Day Program about the incident of the sinking of the ship and the heroic ordeal of the surviving crew members. Edgar Harrell is the subject of the Xulon Press book Out of the Depths – A Survivor’s Story of the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, written by his son David Harrell.  Like so many stories surrounding World War II where fact is stranger than fiction, Out of the Depths is a terrifying firsthand account of the sinking of the…