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Andrea, Mother: James was born April 10, 1998. That happened to be a Good Friday. He didn’t have any health issues. He wasn’t a big crier. He wasn’t fussy. He was happy.

But it was different when he started having the nightmares.

It was about two weeks after his second birthday. Cooked dinner, gave him his bath, took him to bed. And that was that until about 3:00 in the morning, and then I just heard screaming. This was blood-curdling screaming, like someone was killing him.

He was saying, airplane crash on fire. Little man can’t get out. And that’s what he was repeating over and over. Airplane crash on fire. Little man can’t get out.

Bruce, Father: I had to respond. So I started to ask him some questions. What happened to your plane? It got shot. Well, who shot your plane? The Japanese. Well, how do you know it was the Japanese? And I think he said that night, the big red sun.

Where could that come from? How could he articulate something that specific? So I kept going. I said, well, where did your plane come from? And he said, a boat. Did your boat have a name? And he said, yes, Natoma.

There was this history of USS Natoma Bay CVE-62. The ship supported the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Andrea, Mother: It was — what can you say?

Bruce, Father: It was a complete mystery. Where could he have gotten that information? How could he say something like that? I had a hard time believing it.

Andrea, Mother: The next day, I talked to my mom. I had told her that, you know, this is what’s going on with James. These are some of the things that he’s saying. And my mom said something that made me stop dead in my tracks. My mom said, maybe he’s experiencing a past life.

Bruce, Father: My comment was, bull-[BLEEP]. This is not happening in this house. I don’t believe in that stuff. I said, and if that’s what you’re thinking, then I’m going to prove y’all wrong.

Andrea, Mother: I remember one time where James was talking about his airplane. And Bruce had asked him, do you remember what kind of plane you flew? And he said, it was a Corsair.

James: The Corsair was fast. Agility was very good.

Bruce, Father: I went to the internet, started to do some research, found out that there was no Corsair that flew off of Natoma Bay. And since there was no Corsair on Natoma Bay, all these memories, to be polite, it was just baloney.

Andrea, Mother: One day, James and I, we were talking. I said, I know you have those nightmares all the time. Who’s the little man? Do you remember what your name was? And he said, James. And I said, do you remember what your last name was? And he said, mm-mm.

When I talked to Bruce, he was just like, he’ll eventually get over whatever it is.

Bruce, Father: I found a list of men that had been killed serving in World War II aircraft carriers. I went through the list and found the names of 18 men that had been killed aboard Natoma Bay.

It was really startling and almost scary.

There was one guy killed during the Battle of Iwo Jima, and his name is James M. Huston Jr.

Andrea, Mother: I remember Bruce on the phone reading this to me. And he said, James M. Huston Jr. was the only pilot from the Natoma Bay who had been killed in the Battle for Iwo Jima.

I know it. That’s him.

As soon as Bruce found the name James Huston, I really wanted a photo of him. I wanted to know what he looked like.

It took me probably six weeks of research before I was able to find someone in his family.

Anne Barron is the older sister of James Huston.

Oh, gosh, when she answered the telephone, I was really kind of nervous about it. You can’t say, you know, my two-year-old is, you know, a reincarnated person from somebody in their family.

Someone who’s 80 years old is just going to hang up on you. So I said, we were just researching the World War II aircraft carrier called Natoma.

She was just the sweetest old lady.

So I said, you know, we would love to have photos. Is there any way you could send me some pictures of your brother? And she said, sure, I’d be happy to do that.

Believe me, I was checking the mail. I mean, every day, I was waiting for the mailman to come. And I got the package, ripped it open.

And then as I’m flipping through these pictures Anne sent me, I was like, oh, my god! So I called Bruce on the phone. He’s at work. I’m like, you got to come home.

Bruce, Father: And all of a sudden, there’s a picture of James M. Huston Jr. standing in front of a Corsair.

Andrea, Mother: It was huge!

Bruce, Father: James M. Huston Jr., before he was assigned to Natoma Bay, was in a Navy squadron that flew Corsairs.

Shortly after Andrea found James M. Huston Jr.’s sister, Anne Barron, we had the opportunity to visit with her. We felt it was important, and we felt something important would happen.

For me, I had this thing in my head, well, maybe this will close the loop.

Andrea, Mother: By this point, we had told Anne the truth, so she knew about James’s history.

I remember he was instantly very comfortable with her. He didn’t have any problem just, you know, going up, putting his arm around her.

Bruce, Father: He was gentle with her, and he called her Annie.

Andrea, Mother: I asked her about that, and she did say that Jimmy always called her Annie.

Bruce: He was almost thankful to be next to her.

Andrea, Mother: She said that, you know, the information was really shocking and surprising, but that she believed.

Anne Barron, James Huston’s Sister: Knowing my name and things that my brother did when he was a kid, it’s too amazing to describe. I think it’s probably a reincarnation of my brother.

Andrea, Mother: I was tired of my entire life revolving around the research for James Huston.

So I really felt like we had to go to Chichijima and have a memorial service above the wreckage of where James Huston’s plane had crashed.

Bruce, Father: How are you doing, buddy? Are you doing good? Thumbs up? You having a good day?

Chichijima is 620 miles south of Tokyo.

Andrea, Mother: Just the fact that we were there was a chance. It’s like any funeral. You get to say goodbye. You get to close that chapter and move on. And I wanted it to be that way for James and for our whole family.

Bruce, Father: Going back to that place was a little unsettling. We really didn’t know how he was going to react to it.

Andrea, Mother: Bruce had prepared this really nice memorial service. And we brought a big bouquet of flowers from Tokyo to lay on the water.

And initially, James didn’t seem to have any emotion. He seemed fine.

Bruce, Father: Andrea said, OK, it’s time to say goodbye, to leave it behind.

Andrea, Mother: And it came time to throw the flowers on the water, and I told James — I said, James Huston has always been an important part of your life. And he’s always going to be an important part of who you are as a person.

But it’s time for you to say goodbye to him because you have to go ahead and finish living your life as James Leininger.

Bruce, Father: Well, he started to get visibly emotionally upset, crying. We gave him the flowers. He took them, threw them on the water, and then he just — came to a salute. Then he said, James M. Huston, I’ll never forget you, and sat back down and cried for 20 minutes.

James: Saying goodbye to James Huston, I felt unfathomable sadness. The first half of my life was with him.

Andrea, Mother: I think he was interpreting it exactly the way I intended him to. I think he understood that James M. Huston died, but that wasn’t him. He was able to make that distinction.

James: I can’t operate normally with those memories in my mind haunting me daily.

I had to let go.

Andrea, Mother: James really closed the chapter and the book on the James Huston past life and moved forward with his life.

Now, he’s a 14-year-old kid who just started high school. He’s a happy, healthy, great kid. You would never know that he has been through this amazing journey.

James plans to one day join the US Marine Corps. He hopes that someday, scientists will find evidence proving reincarnation.

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Questions

 

Reincarnation. Bruce Leininger, the father, had fought in World War Two, and often talks about his experiences. True or false?

Psychic Phenomena, Parapsychology. As a little child, did James Leininger have nice, sweet dreams? Was he interested in toy cars, toys and games?

Déjà vu. Did little James’s mother deduce (figure out) that he might be a reincarnation of someone else?

Telepathy. In the beginning, did the father take his son seriously? Did he believe his son was telling the truth or making up stories?

Telekinesis. Mr. Leininger took his son to a pediatrician — and then forgot the whole thing. Is this right or wrong?

Uncanny. Did the Leiningers keep everything to themselves or did they contact others?

Hypnosis. Was Anne Barrow, James Huston’s elder sister dismissive and furious when the Leiningers informed her about their son, James? What happened?

Mind Reading. Did James, Andrea, and Bruce go on a vacation to New York, London, and Paris?

Prophesy, Precognition. James Leininger still has nightmares and attached to James Huston. Is this right or wrong? Does he plan on becoming a computer scientist?

Clairvoyance. Do you and your friends have “strange, odd, idiosyncratic” dreams and nightmares?

ESP (Extrasensory Perception). Have you experienced Déjà vu, ESP, intuition, precognition, uncanny feelings?

Intuition. What do you think of reincarnation, is it fake, real, both, in-between, neither, nobody knows for sure, we will never know?

Distant Healing. What might happen in the future?

Remote Viewing. What could or should people, the media, scientists, governments do?